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Yes, that was my point in the previous post.
Anyway, Coppola s film is my fav Dracula, closely followed by the original Lugosi film and the Palance tv film.
Off topic but I'd love a werewolf movie or story where they use the old methods of turning into one and forget about the infecting bites.
The old methods being...a gypsy curse?
That would be beggars on every street corner today.
Yay! Hammer's DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1966) will finally be getting a decent blu-ray release in North America this December. (The BD release from a few years ago was marred by an omnipresent brownish tint.)
I had a teacher in high school who looked like that.
Curse, a Faustian pact, some particularly horrible crime(s).
Didn't really pique my interest, but I admit it had a couple moments I won't soon forget.
Dracula licking blood from the floor, and its context.
Damn. Looks good.
That means I'll probably get this copy too. Right now I have 3 copies of this Dracula film.
I wish HORROR OF DRACULA would get a North America Blu-ray release. though.
I've always loved BLOOD FOR DRACULA. Very odd version, and an acquired taste.
I remember watching this daft Dracula take as a kid.
Another of the many false perceptions about the novel.
Nosferatu's fault.
I love the movie but yes. There has never been a faithful adaptation of the novel, sadly.
That might be it. Still, they adapted relatively faithfully at least some of the Harry Potter books, The Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes, surely they could do a better job for Dracula?
I grew up on vampire movies... basically what you are raised on defines you... my first theatrical vampire movie was Dracula AD: 1972. Then The Night Stalker TV movie. Then Blacula in the theatre. Those three set the tone for me. All in the same year. My 12 year old self was on vampire overload. "Bram Stoker? Who's that"? Sadly, I will never read it. I am a victim of pop culture...
Taste The Blood Of Dracula is inappropriate for an 11 year old.
I thought it was pretty tame to be honest though I could have watched a censored version, it's one of the least memorable in the series, so I assume you only watched 15 rated films after you were 15 that's admirable.
That's an interesting movie, one of the many Dracula Hammer films where I suspect it was not originally a Dracula movie, but they shoehorned the count to sell it better.
It was poorly executed, but I always loved the starting point: depraved and blase upper-class and middle aged Englishmen being tempted to dabble into the occult to add excitement into their life, as their current vices bore them. That's a nice change from the young people or teenagers exploring taboos which we often see in horror films.
PRINCE OF DARKNESS, HAS RISEN and SCARS of DRACULA were the first Lee Dracula movies I saw. I was 7. Didn't catch the others until a few years later.
I was 11 when I first saw it on the tube. A local station played that one, AD 1972 and SATANIC RITES around the same time. AD 1972 is my favorite of that batch. TASTE THE BLOOD is pretty cool, though. Always liked Ralph Bates.
As far as inappropriateness, I'd say TASTE THE BLOOD is no better or worse than SCARS. I actually saw the ANDY WARHOL version around that time as well.
There are a few Lee Dracula movies that are vague in the memory Scars... and Dracula has risen from the grave I can't remember what happens in them. I have almost bought the Hammer Boxsets a few times, I should revisit the films at the very least for nostalgia.
I love all of them but am partial to SCARS and HAS RISEN from my childhood memories. Staying up late Friday and Saturday nights to catch them. Playing around with the antenna to make sure the station came in decently. Home made popcorn. Fun times.
@ToTheRight did you ever watch Ralph Bates in Dear John TV show, Judd Hirsch was in the American version of the show.
In the UK not sure which country you are from, Jonathan Ross presented a Hammer season that played on weekends when I was younger thats where I was introduced to alot of the Hammer films.
I feel like there was a cable station here (possibly A&E) that aired some episodes back in the late '80's and I caught only a bit.
I'm in the States. Where I grew up there were a couple local stations that would air horror films late nights on the weekends. Often Hammer films or Universal horror.
Eventually that station stopped and I had to track the films down on VHS.
Simpler times back in the 80"s it was good to stumble upon movies and music that was otherwise difficult to watch or listen to, the world has certainly changed.