Vampires by Butler Charles

Author:Butler, Charles [Butler, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)

Christopher Lee as Count Dracula. Peter Cushing as Lorrimar Van Helsing. William Franklyn as Torrance. Michael Coles as Inspector Murray. Joanna Lumley as Jessica Van Helsing. Freddie Jones as Professor Keeley. Barbara Yu Ling as Chin Yang. Valerie Van Ost as Jane. Screenplay: Don Houghton. Director: Alan Gibson

Synopsis

Professor Lorrimar Van Helsing is called in to aid Scotland Yard and the British Secret service when it is revealed that Satanists are performing bizarre rites at an out-of-the-way country house protected by afghan-clad bikers. Van Helsing recognizes an old friend, Professor Julian Keeley, as one of the members and pays him a visit. As they talk, Van Helsing discovers that Keeley is growing the bubonic plague in petri dishes. The professor is killed by the biker/storm troopers and Van Helsing is wounded in the forehead. Van Helsing’s daughter and a Scotland Yard detective investigate the house and find vampires in the cellar and snipers in the fields. A silver bullet is made and Van Helsing pays a visit to the D D Denham group of companies and discovers that the leader of the Satanists is none other than Count Dracula himself. Van Helsing is captured as is his granddaughter. Dracula has the girl hypnotized on his altar. He makes his servant release the plague virus as a fight from within the house causes an electrical malfunction and the house bursts into flame. Dracula flees into the woods with Van Helsing hot on his heels. He traps the vampire on the spines of an hawthorn bush and stakes him through the heart with wood from a picket fence.

Review

Dracula is dead…and well…and living in London. Clearly, with an original title like that, Hammer was being very tongue in cheek concerning their latest movie starring the dark seducer. The film itself, with practically the same production team as Dracula AD 1972, is more geared towards being a prototype for the TV series The New Avengers

Christopher Lee returns for the final time under protest as he made clear in a promotional press conference in 1973. Condemning the film as being “fatuous, pointless, absurd!” What he probably didn’t realize is that he actually had something to do in this one. He is the mysterious D D Denham. The hermit tycoon in charge of the D D Denham Group of companies that has been built on the site of St Bartolph’s church and his activities draw the suspicions of the secret service after an agent (Maurice O Connell) has escaped from his out-of-the way retreat known as Pelham House. The dying man recalls a black mass ceremony with noted guests – a government minister, a peer of the realm, a general and a famous Nobel prize-winning scientist – putting on robes to conjure up the devil. A naked girl lies on an altar and is stabbed through the heart by the oriental housekeeper. The girl’s eyes fly open and she sits up again as the wound magically disappears. Dracula is planning Armageddon and

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