Count Dracula
(1970)
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Count Dracula
(1970)
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| Christopher Lee | ... | ||
| Herbert Lom | ... | ||
| Klaus Kinski | ... | ||
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Soledad Miranda | ... | |
| Maria Rohm | ... | ||
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Fred Williams | ... | |
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Paul Muller | ... |
Dr. John Seward
(as Paul Müller)
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Jack Taylor | ... | |
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Jesús Puente | ... |
Minister of Interior
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José Martínez Blanco | ... |
Traveller /
Dr. Seward
(voice) (as J. Martinez Blanco)
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Franco Castellani |
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Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens. Written by Humberto Amador
this is an unjustly obscured, great horror film that does more justice to the novel than any of the Hammer versions but maintains their atmosphere perfectly and outdoes "the horror of dracula" by far. christopher lee looks just like the description of the Count in stoker's novel, and far from being 'funny' or 'cheap' as some of the other reviewers here have called it (did they watch the same movie, or what?), you don't doubt it's reality for a moment. the soundtrack is really eerie and appropriate to some of the truly horrifying scenes, such as the poor woman screaming outside the castle at dracula to give her baby back, and the surrealistic scene in which jonathan harker leaps out the castle's window. kinski is superb and utterly convincing (and i'm usually not all that impressed by him) as renfield, and it is really creepy to watch his behavior at times. (especially when he eats bugs and smears the friggin blood on the rubber walls. ick!) in fact, i could find very little wrong with this movie at all, and any true horror fan will revere it. not just a must watch, a must own.