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Dracula has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Topic Started: Aug 29 2010, 08:49 AM (1,926 Views)
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A visiting Monsignor discovers that nobody attends church in the village anymore, because the shadow of Dracula’s castle touches it at sunset. Okay, I’ll buy that. The holy feller grabs the local priest (not literally) and takes him up to the castle, where they perform an exorcism to get rid of the spirit of Count Dracula. Actually, all they do is wake him up, and gets royally pissed about his castle being blessed ‘n’ all (Transylvanians have notoriously short fuses). He vows to make everybody’s life a living hell, particularly the large-breasted woman in the local pub and the Monsignor’s large-breasted niece. Twin bite marks start appearing on local necks, while the Monsignor’s assistant falls under the sway of the evil Count. In the end, the niece’s boyfriend, an avowed atheist, finds God and puts Dracula back into his grave.

Pretty good Hammer Dracula picture, if you like these sorts of things, which I don’t. Dracula is off-screen a lot, but when he’s on-screen, he has a lot more dialogue than I remember him having in these films (as I recall, in one of ‘em, he has no lines to speak whatsoever). The bright red blood flows freely, the cleavage is displayed amply, and film’s 92-minute running time goes by painlessly.

Also reviewed today, our FNF co-feature: Evil of Frankenstein
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TCM is showing a slew of the Hammer Horrors this October - most of the Draculas and Frankensteins along with rarely seen one like the Reptile.
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This is my 2nd fave Hammer Dracula, just behind the initial Horror Of Dracula.
It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong."
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Aug 29 2010, 02:07 PM
This is my 2nd fave Hammer Dracula, just behind the initial Horror Of Dracula.
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Good film - in one scene, IIRC, Drac crashes thru some French windows and vaults over a balcony - got a round of applause in the theatre I saw it in! :D
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Nice piccy Andarius. I remember a dead person in the bell in the background of the piccy. I also remember a deaf bellringer who tried to scream when he found the dead guy.
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Aug 31 2010, 01:33 AM
Nice piccy Andarius. I remember a dead person in the bell in the background of the piccy. I also remember a deaf bellringer who tried to scream when he found the dead guy.
I vaguely remember the dead man in the bell - can't recall the deaf bellringer - ice played an important part for both Drac and Frank, now I think of it! :D

As I teenager, I was quite interested in the friendly barmaid, Barbara Ewing! :$
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andarius
Aug 31 2010, 02:52 AM
As I teenager, I was quite interested in the friendly barmaid, Barbara Ewing! :$
The word hammer in Swedish translates into cleavage.
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OK, I have my Hammer Dracs mixed up. A WOMAN was in the bell and the bell ringer wasn't deaf. I'm now a-thinkin' the deaf guy was in Taste The Blood Of Dracula.

Anywho... here's a link to the whole damn movie on YouTube, The woman in the bell appears in the 1st 5 minutes... Enjoy.

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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Aug 31 2010, 03:19 AM
OK, I have my Hammer Dracs mixed up. A WOMAN was in the bell and the bell ringer wasn't deaf. I'm now a-thinkin' the deaf guy was in Taste The Blood Of Dracula.

Anywho... here's a link to the whole damn movie on YouTube, The woman in the bell appears in the 1st 5 minutes... Enjoy.

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I got Taste the Blood - was that the guy in the stagecoach afore the titles?

Thanks for the clip! ;)
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I think in the film "Horror of Dracula" Christopher Lee had no dialogue at all...
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No, I think it's one of the later ones... Taste the Blood of Dracula, maybe.
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It's DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, actually. And it's very embarrassing to admit I know things like that.
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Aug 31 2010, 09:44 AM
It's DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, actually. And it's very embarrassing to admit I know things like that.
I wouldn't be embarrassed. I knew this but couldn't cull the info from my alcohol-damaged brain. In the first film, Dracula talks to Harker quite a bit when the writer (Harker is there to write about Dracula and not to sell him Carfax Abbey :blink: ) arrives at Castle Dracula.
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We watched Prince of Darkness last year on FNF; no wonder I was so surprised to hear Mr. Lee pontificating in THIS one.
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Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer
Aug 31 2010, 11:19 AM
Fantomas
Aug 31 2010, 09:44 AM
It's DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, actually. And it's very embarrassing to admit I know things like that.
I wouldn't be embarrassed. I knew this but couldn't cull the info from my alcohol-damaged brain. In the first film, Dracula talks to Harker quite a bit when the writer (Harker is there to write about Dracula and not to sell him Carfax Abbey :blink: ) arrives at Castle Dracula.
IIRC, they ain't no Carfax Abbey in Horror - didn't they stay in mainland Europe?
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