Sticking closer to the time of Bram Stoker's novel, Horror Of Dracula was the
second of many joint appearances of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. With
fangs baring and a look of menace permanently on his countenance, Christopher
Lee became the new face of Dracula only two years after Bela Lugosi died. He
became the new face of Dracula and unlike Lugosi who only made two appearances as the Count, Lee did quite a few more Dracula films.
His Dr. Von Helsing is Peter Cushing also getting started in his career in horror
films. These two were the mainstays of Hammer films and with their release
in America became as known in America as they were in the United Kingdom.
Also in the cast is Michael Gough who did a few horror flicks himself as a man
who loses a sister and her fiance to the evil blood drinking undead count and
nearly loses another sister.
The film is quite a bit more gory than the Lugosi classic which relied more on
the Gothic sets created at Universal Studios. Dracula deals in blood and that's
what the movie going public got here and plenty of it.
After 60 years and after 40 years when Hammer films went out of business,
Horror Of Dracula hasn't lost a bit of bite.
