Review of The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) by Senor C — 19 Aug 2011

There's bad movies and then there's this. Now I've always been a fan of Hammer, but I believe that this movie is single handedly responsible for sending them bankrupt as well as killing the vampire mythos for the next 10 years.

This movie has a good premise, but suffers from going 'Hollywood' in that it tries to appeal to every demographic, and because of that it fails..not in a subtle way..but in a slow motion train wreck way.

In this movie, Hammer tried to capitalize on the Martial arts exploitation of the time and integrate it. Needless to say it did not work. Too many extended fight scenes a really nonsensical plot [why on earth are you raising other vampires to kill off villagers.

.hello Drac..you're gonna run out of people to feed on as well as attracting unwanted attention to yourself ..expecially after you got killed 3x by Van Helsing , who is strangely enough in the same country you moron] with a lackluster ending.

Not exactly a must see. For real Hammer Classics..go back the Cushing/Lee years.