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Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Topic Started: Jun 5 2009, 12:55 AM (888 Views)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TUMf1Foytw

http://reelcinema.blogspot.com/2006/02/hammer-glamour-linda-hayden.html

SEE Roy Kinnear in a GREAT pre-title sequence!
SEE Dracula rise from the grave!
SEE Linda Hayden's cleavage!
SEE Isla Blair's cleavage!
SEE debauchery in Victorian England!
SEE all this and MORE!

Grab the DVD NOW - it's going cheap!
:D :D
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I've never been very good at telling those Hammer Dracula films apart, except for "Brides", which is the "good" one and the one sans Christopher Lee (a coincidence, I'm sure). Which one is this?
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This one has Veruca Salt's dad gathering up Dracula dust which he sells to some snotty rich kid who then gets kicked to death by a bunch of older rich guys. Dracula is resurrected and then goes on a revenge kick. At least that's what I remember. After awhile these begin to run together like Friday the 13th films.
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Yes! I remember one where some guy is hung upside-down and bleeds onto Dracula's dirt and Christopher Lee pops up like a scary jack-in-the-box, which is I think the last one we watched, which would make that one DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS. I think. Maybe.
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Jun 5 2009, 06:18 AM
I've never been very good at telling those Hammer Dracula films apart, except for "Brides", which is the "good" one and the one sans Christopher Lee (a coincidence, I'm sure). Which one is this?
It's the one where 3 Victorian 'gentleman' visit an East End brothel on the last Sunday of every month.

Check out the trailer on the link.

Dracula has red dust rather than grey dirt! :D

And it's GOOD!
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I picked this up in a four films in one box set at Target for $10-
The other films include Horror of Dracula, Dracula 1972 AD (That one was a trip) and Dracula Does Pretty Much the Same Stuff He Does in All the Hammer Films (I believe the title was shortened in theaters to something else).

The thing that strikes me is the continuity, each film virtually picking up where the last film left off, and the Police Squad like Leslie Nielson beatings Dracula takes at the end of each film.
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LOL - yes they make Drac suffer alright! :D
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The thing that strikes me is the continuity, each film virtually picking up where the last film left off, and the Police Squad like Leslie Nielson beatings Dracula takes at the end of each film.
If you make it O J Simpson instead of Leslie, I'm ageein'.
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I was watching Countdown on English TV ages ago - Martin Jarvis said he played Jeremy in Taste and his girlfriend in the film had to bite him - to expose her fangs she had to smile which made him giggle; Christopher Lee told him that if he couldn't take it seriously he had better leave the set and return when he had composed himself, which he did! :D



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As the film opens, Dracula dies again, courtesy of the ending of Dracula Has Risen from the Grave. This time, though, traveling salesman Roy Kinnear is in the woods to witness it (long story). Then we spend a lot of time meeting three high-class Victorian gentlemen who like to go to the brothel when nobody's looking. There, they meet Ralph Bates, who promises them a big thrill, and takes them to Mr. Kinnear, where they purchase Dracula's stuff. Bates then drinks the blood of Dracula and the three guys are so disgusted they beat him to death with their walking sticks and head for home. Bates turns into Christopher Lee and goes stalking them by seducing their sons and daughters and turning them into killers.

Yeah, it's overly complicated and dumb. Apparently, Bates' character was supposed to be a new vampire to replace Lee in the series, but financing on a non-Dracula Dracula film fell through, so Mr. Lee was convinced to walk back into the role at the last minute, entailing several rewrites and the absence of Vincent Price from the film; he was set to play one of the three gentlemen, I guess. The only one I recognize is Geoffrey Keen, who played an advisor to M in all those Roger Moore James Bond films. He's a real bastard here, horsewhipping his lovely daughter, who is kind of portly for a Hammer girl, incidentally. There is nudity in the brothel scene, apparently restored for DVD from all the bits that were cut out by British censors back in 1970. As usual with Hammer, lots of tits and blood.

Our show included Fresh Airedale, a very odd Chuck Jones cartoon from 1945 about a scene-stealing bad dog who pretends to be good; The Oompahs (1952), a UPA cartoon about a family of musical instruments; The Big Premiere (1940), with Spanky and Our Gang staging their own movie, and I have to tell you, for one of the later MGM entries in the series, this one's pretty hilarious; and an episode of Davey & Goliath, 'cause Davey voice Dick Beals passed away the other day. Everybody hated Davey & Goliath; well, everybody except me. I always liked the show, despite my lack of grounding in the Lutheran faith. Davey seemed like a nice little boy. Plus it was on Sundays, a rarity for children's shows in those days.
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