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Director Don Sharp’s sinister 1963 movie The Kiss of the Vampire is a thoughtful and entertaining Dracula-style Hammer horror, with scary sequences and a well-judged good old-fashioned battle between good and evil. Noel Willman, a character […]
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is a tolerable experience, but the mix of Michael Carreras’s British Hammer horror and Hong Kong film producer Run Run Shaw’s kung fu is uneasy, to say the […]
Hammer Films’ misguided and lame-brained effort to modernise the Dracula tale to the supposedly still swinging London of the early Seventies fails on nearly every count. The 1972 British horror film Dracula AD 1972 is […]
Debut film director Peter Duffell’s effective 1971 four-segment Amicus compendium chiller, set around a murderous mansion, is written with knowing glee by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Denholm Elliott lead […]
Co-producer/writer/director Brian Clemens’s 1974 Hammer Films horror spoof stars German actor Horst Janson as the vampire hunter/swordsman/destroyer Captain Kronos, who, along with his hunchback assistant and a bumbling professor Hieronymos Grost (John Cater), ride into […]
Writer-director Bob Kelljan’s 1970 horror movie Count Yorga, Vampire is a contemporary version of the Dracula tale, neatly relocated to Los Angeles. Robert Quarry stars as the visiting Count Yorga who pesters the life out […]
Co-writer/director Peter Sasdy’s 1971 Hammer Films horror tale stars Ingrid Pitt as the aging widowed Countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, who discovers that she can become young again if she bathes in the blood of young virgins. […]