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2.0 out of 5 stars
The Last Gasp of Hammer's Dracula Series,
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This review is from: The Satanic Rites of Dracula (Special Deluxe Edition) (DVD)
This film is awfully tired in many respects, but the core idea -- that Dracula wants to die and take the whole world with him -- is interesting. The relocating of the Dracula story to '70s England doesn't work, as it robs the film of the gothic atmosphere that Hammer used to create so vividly. The spy movie stuff that's weirdly injected into the story is silly, and dates the film badly (in fact it probably looked dated when it was released). At the centre though is another sterling performance from Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, and his confrontation with Dracula is memorable. Overall, it's better than the previous film "Dracula A.D. 1972", but it still ends the Hammer Dracula series with a whimper.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Don't... unless you need to end your Hammer's Draculas saga!,
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This review is from: Count Dracula and His Vampire Brides (DVD)
You might only think you wanna watch this movie... but you don't have to.Unless you really... really really want to see all 7 Draculas from Hammer Films starring Christopher Lee, you can "forget" to watch this one. On paper, the idea of having Dracula in an office building and being tired of not being either alive nor dead and deciding to end it all is quite good, but the movie is slow, the back story about the cops trying to find the individuals responsible for the "human sacrifices" and kidnappings is boring and Dracula doesn't appear until 38 minutes in, and seems to pop out for no apparent reason. The finale is kinda well done, altho like all Hammer movies, the ending just seems rushed and thrown at you in 2 minutes... A weird bureaucratic end to a great saga. Now... on to the more "meaty" part. Chances are that is you are reading this, you are curious and wanna invest 87 minutes of your life in episode VII of Vampire Wars. Well, Count Dracula and his Vampire Brides, aka The Satanic Rites of Dracula, aka Dracula A.D. 1973 (I know!) is now public domain, and you'll understand why when you see it! The movie being public domain implies that anybody can take any copy of the movie, package it and sell it with whatever they want on the cover or in the movie, so depending on what "edition" you get, you might get a master, a VHS-rip or a DVD-rip of a ripped VHS, "digitally mastered", which means nothing else than "ripped using a computer". I got both this edition:Count Dracula and His Vampire Brides A widescreen transfer, looks kinda good, even on an HDTV, which is pretty rare for public domain. Bonus features are mini-micro-biographies of Lee and Cushing and this one: The Satanic Rites Of Dracula Looks awful and ugly, like a bad transfer overcompressed, even on an old 24" cathodic TV, altho it has the original title with the copyright mention of Hammer, the video and sound quality is not worth it. Don't know about the "deluxe" and "widescreen special edition", but since it's public domain, chances are that some cheap DVD company labeled their fake master like this to sell that bull**** The movie is not that good anyway... If it were, Hammer or Warner Bros. would've included it on the 4 movie-set release or the "Hammer Collection" DVDs. My best advice, if not to keep as far as possible from this vampire footnote, is to spend the least amount of money possible on it. Your time is worth more than 5$ for 87 minutes of that cheap entertainement. BTW: Christopher Lee still is God!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dracula as Business Tycoon,
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This review is from: Satanic Rites of Dracula (Widescreen) (DVD)
This is the last of the Christopher Lee Dracula films. It is not hard to see why. The plot is more of an espionage story that inserts Dracula into it. There are some interesting ideas but Dracula only pops up towards the end of the film to add some excitement. London was the location for much of the film but it looks cold and deserted. A strange and sad exit for the greatest actor to ever play Dracula - Christopher Lee. Peter Cushing is, as usual, terrific as Van Helsing. Too bad they didn't have a better script to work with.
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