What the hell killed dracula?
...a premonition? Recollections? Huh?
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I guess he just had a religious epiphany and then died of a heart attack.
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Dracula always goes down easy in the hammer films. Bit of a scuffle and bad landing in Risen, heart attack in this one, failure to board up the windows in Horror, really bad balance in Prince.
He's a bit of a buffoon really.
It has been written that it was the power of God that killed him.
But there is no real evidence of that or anything else really.
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Yeah, I've been thinking about it, and even re-watched the end, and it looks like they tried to make it seem as though the fact that he suddenly realizes he's in a church is what killed him. That's kind of the way I see it now; so in a way, yeah, god.
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This is one of the most unusual endings to a drac film ive ever seen. And after i watched it i was thinking did i miss something?
shareI always took it as being a transgretion against God that ultimately destroyed him.
He was using an old church as his lair, and while that had been desecrated by black magic, when Paul came in at the end, cleared the black altar, put the cross on the door, and turned the crucifix against Dracula, that somehow resurrected the Godly power of the old church in the same way that the black mass resurrected the dark power of Dracula. And when Dracula, trapped, tried to escape through the religious portrait stained-glass window by breaking it somehow the reknewed power of the church/God shot through him, leading to his destruction.
So, yeah, death by an angry God basically.
My take anyhow.
I love the ending, though few Hammer fans do.
It's unclear what exactly destroys Dracula; he seems overwhelmed by the holiness of the place. He keeps running up against these sacred obstacles and finally it's too much, and he turns utterly delirious, envisioning the church restored to its full glory. The POV shots and the rather pathetic look on Dracula's face as all his energy is seemingly drawn from him makes him almost sympathetic. (I think he's already a bit sympathetic in this one, since his victims are such unsympathetic hypocrites.)
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Easily the worst Dracula death in the entire series. Even the lightning bolt killing him in Scars was better than this.
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This is what it boils down to:
As you may or may not know, originally, Dracula was to reincarnate as Lord Courtley so Hammer wouldn't have to deal with Lee anymore and they could appeal to "younger" audiences with Ralph Bates. So in the script, we're told that Courtley was disowned by his father for desecrating that church with black mass rituals. In the end, Paul re-sanctified the church and Courtley remembered the church as it was in its halcyon days, so to speak. The forces of good that were once there overwhelmed him and destroyed him.
Now, when Warner Brothers demanded Lee as Dracula into the movie and Dracula proper was back, the ending now doesn't make much sense. The best I can make of it as is Paul re-sanctifies the church and after Dracula smashes the stained-glass cross, he suddenly has a vision of the church as it was before Courtley's mass shenanigans and the overwhelming symbols of good do him in.
But what it boils down to is Hammer didn't make much attempt to "rationalize" the ending once Dracula was brought back into the mix.