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Overview

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Director:
Alan Gibson
Writer:
Don Houghton (writer)
Contact:
View company contact information for Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
October 1978 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller more
Tagline:
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Plot:
In London in the 1970s, Scotland Yard police investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism... more | full synopsis
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(2 articles)
Hobgoblins! Monster X! And more assorted horror DVD news
 (From Fangoria. 6 May 2009, 10:49 AM, PDT)

Lee Still Haunted by Dracula
 (From WENN. 17 May 2005)

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end of an era more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Christopher Lee ... Count Dracula

Peter Cushing ... Prof. Lorrimer Van Helsing
Michael Coles ... Insp. Murray
William Franklyn ... Torrence
Freddie Jones ... Prof. Julian Keeley

Joanna Lumley ... Jessica Van Helsing
Richard Vernon ... Col. Mathews
Barbara Yu Ling ... Chin Yang
Patrick Barr ... Lord Carradine
Richard Mathews ... John Porter
Lockwood West ... General Sir Arthur Freeborne
Valerie Van Ost ... Jane
Maurice O'Connell ... Hanson
Peter Adair ... Doctor
Maggie Fitzgerald ... Vampire girl
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride (USA)
Dracula Is Alive and Well and Living in London
Dracula Is Dead... and Well and Living in London
Rites of Dracula
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Runtime:
87 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
Australia:R (DVD rating) | Iceland:16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | West Germany:18 | Argentina:18 (re-rating) | Argentina:X (original rating) | Australia:M | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (video rating) (1988) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:R

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Trivia:
Marc Zuber replaced Ian Dewar. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Jessica is attacked by the female vampires in the basement of the sinister cult house, the brunette vampire menacing her from the rear is missing an important bit of anatomy- vampire fangs. more
Quotes:
Jessica Van Helsing: Stop him! She's a vampire! more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991) more

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12 out of 17 people found the following comment useful:-
end of an era, 18 May 2006
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Author: signofend from United Kingdom

Hammer's last throw with Christopher Lee who refused to do another Dracula after AD 1972. He regarded the last Hammer's as such a departure from Stoker as to be sacrilegious. This replaces horror with a thriller. Dracula in a thriller? French Connection was a thriller. How does the suave and deadly Count become transplanted into a more style which uses more realism? He cannot, he is incongruous. Consequently Dracula makes almost no appearance until the last 15 minutes. The rest of the film is a chase between his henchmen and Cushing with the police. The quality of the Dracula films had deteriorated in their glamour and stylishness and transferring to the modern day was an attempt to inject glamour again. The most interesting piece of this film is the satanic rite of the title. Its images and practises have been used by the Church of Satan and other occult groups. The actor, scientist and parapsychologist Stephen Armourae has referred to it in articles and the actress Mia Martin has appeared in some of his drawings and paintings. Oddly despite such a high profile release none of the actors including Pauline Peart and Mia Martin did anything since despite their glamour and looks.

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