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Dracula’s Daughter *** (1936, Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 2767

Director Lambert Hillyer’s 1936 horror movie (remotely based on Bram Stoker’s short story Dracula’s Guest) is a low-budget, effective sequel to the 1931 Dracula that picks up (alas without Bela Lugosi) where it leaves off. The […]

Aug, 02

Son of Dracula *** (1943, Lon Chaney Jr, Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Frank Craven, Evelyn Ankers) – Classic Movie Review 2766

Director Robert Siodmak’s engaging, highly watchable 1943 vintage horror chiller sequel is the first film where a vampire is shown transforming into a bat. The third movie in Universal Studios’ Dracula trilogy, preceded by Dracula […]

Aug, 01

Van Helsing *** (2004, Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham) – Classic Movie Review 2108

Having successfully resurrected The Mummy, writer-director Stephen Sommers now turns his hand in 2004 to the other Universal horror icons. So, this time, Dracula meets the Frankenstein’s Monster (Shuler Hensley) and the Wolf Man, as […]

Jan, 24

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave *** (1968, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 1733

Director Freddie Francis’s 1968 horror movie sequel Dracula Has Risen from the Grave is the quite stylish and still welcome third episode in the Christopher Lee Hammer Films series, following Terence Fisher’s Dracula in 1958 […]

Oct, 03

Dracula: Prince of Darkness **** (1966, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Francis Matthews, Andrew Keir) – Classic Movie Review 1734

After a long gap, Hammer Films’ 1966 sequel to its finest achievement – the 1958 Dracula – resurrects the Count with the inestimable help of ultra-smooth Christopher Lee back in his most famous role as […]

Oct, 03

Taste the Blood of Dracula ** (1970, Christopher Lee, Ralph Bates, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford) – Classic Movie Review 1735

Director Peter Sasdy’s 1970 horror thriller Taste the Blood of Dracula is the fourth in the famous British Hammer Films Dracula series with Christopher Lee, a watchable follow-up to 1968’s Dracula Has Risen from the […]

Oct, 02

Dracula: Dead and Loving It *** (1995, Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Peter MacNicol, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 1732

Producer/co-writer/director Mel Brooks revisits one of his finest hours – the 1974 Young Frankenstein for a belated companion piece that has enough good humour and amusing jokes for tolerant Brooks aficionados to call this a […]

Oct, 02

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