Review of Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) by Mark G — 17 Mar 2009
Hammer's take on Dracula rises from the grave yet again. This was the 6th Dracula film created by Hammer films, and it follows straight on from where the previous film ended. It begins when English businessman Weller (Roy Kinnear) discovering Dracula (Christopher Lee) as he dies and then Weller collects his collects his cloak, his ring and his blood, now dried up.
We then go to 3 upper-class aristocrats, Hargood (Geoffrey Keen), Paxton (Peter Sallis) and Secker (John Carson), who find excitement in their lives with clandestine visits to a bordello, where they meet one of Dracula's former servants, Lord Courtley (Ralph Bates), offers the men greater pleasures.
They are able to buy Dracula's personal effects from Weller, and attempt to resurrect him in a Black Mass. Courtley dies during the ritual, and metamorphasises into Dracula, and he goes after the 3 aristocrats.
It's your usual Hammer fare, this is more character driven that the other ones, but even Christopher Lee looks bored throughout, even though this has a good cast, and it makes for good cheesy fun.
This review of Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) was written by Mark G on 17 Mar 2009.
Taste the Blood of Dracula has generally received mixed reviews.
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