This 1966 movie was, you might say,an official sequel to Terence
Fisher's 1958 "Dracula", opening as it does with the ending of the
earlier film and there are some who think it's the superior picture. In
the interim, films had become just that little bit more explicit so that
this time round Fisher could up the ante, at least in terms of
violence, if not sex.
Peter Cushing's Van Helsing was no longer on hand, being replaced by Andrew Keir's somewhat gruff priest but Hammer had found a new Queen of Horror in Barbara Shelley and she's excellent as the latest addition to the count's harem. The difference here is that this time Dracula never speaks which, in a way, makes him all the more terrifying; the real stuff of nightmares. As well as Lee, Shelley and Keir there is a good supporting cast including Francis Matthews, Charles Tingwell, Thorley Walters and a suitably menacing Philip Latham as Dracula's faithful manservant.
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