Only a 6.6? You gotta be kidding me! This is one of the best Dracula movies, especially from this era. It is way better than the crap churned out today but apparently a lot of young kids prefer the Dracula 2000 junk and drove the score down.
shareI give it an 8/10. This film is classy, sophisticated, intriguing, with a spooky atmosphere. It is everything a vampire movie should be in my opinion.
Death lives in the Vault of Horror!
Well, it is up to a 6.7, fwiw.
The strength of this movie is the atmosphere. Good sets and good acting by Klove, Sandor, and Helen, in particular.
Younger viewers want more action, and gore. I would have liked to have seen a little more continuity...the countryside seems like springtime and the castle is set like winter. If it is so cold there, why does no one shiver? Every time they are traveling it is fair and dry, but Sandor complains that "it isn't fit for man nor beast out there!" and it storms violently the night they are in the castle.
Speaking of which, how can the ice be so firm to hold 2 men fighting the day after a rainstorm? Wouldn't it at least be slushy? Why would the water in a moat be running? It was a "full days" ride back to the castle from the monastery, but Klove and his pursuers were driving their horses hell-bent for leather the whole way. How did they not collapse in exhaustion?
Night falls in seconds. Helen proceeds alone to look for her husband, rather than waiting for "the others." Klove (presumably) puts Alan's corpse in a chest, but leaves the arm dangling out. He seems so fastidious about everything else in the castle...
I gave it a 9, many years ago. There are so many great scenes! From the resurrection to the downfall of Dracula.
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