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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302676846
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302676843
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: August 22, 1995
Running Time: 91 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 07, 1970
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Product Description:
Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.
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"Drac" is back once again in this fourth installment of Hammer's Dracula films starring Christopher Lee. Under the guidance of Satanic Priest Lord Courtley, three middle-aged professionals seek to add more spice to their love lives by dabbling in rituals to the Dark Prince. After drinking the blood of the Count, the pleasure seekers kill Lord Courtley, inadvertently awakening Dracula who is dead set on avenging his Priest's murder. Though not on par with Hammer's original "Horror of Dracula", Taste the Blood of Dracula does take all the key elements from the original (beautiful heroines, picturesque settings, gothic ambiance, and Lee as the "Count") and somewhat successfully "cheeses" it up for audiences of the '70s. Those wishing to expand their cheesy '70s Dracula experience will find Morrissey's "Hammeresque" Blood for Dracula a nice compliment. By all counts Taste the Blood of Dracula is a fun, campy romp --Rob Bracco
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The film started out in typical Hammer Films fashion: Three guys in a carriage, one a salesman who offers trinkets to the other two. One goes nuts and throws the sales guy out the carriage and into the night! We never did find out who those two were or why they did that, but what's a few plot holes between ghouls, eh?
We see Dracula bite it big time, a king-size cross sticking out of his body. He deteriorates into so much tomato paste. Our sales guy happens upon this scene and keeps the cape, the broach (imprinted with Dracula, natch) and a bit of dried blood.
We meet the other cast of characters and the usual sexy but suppressed by the Victorian morals of the era, a gruff father and a man in love with her daughter. And a girl named Lucy. Why do all vamp movies have someone named Lucy?
Long story short, three men are out to have a good time. They let everyone think they're fine, upstanding gentlemen (one being the man who has the sexy daughter) and they go out to a brothel and play in the bushes, so to speak.
Tired and bored, they find a guy who performs a black mass complete with the earlier dried blood of Drac.
The dried blood has interesting properties. When you add a drop of human blood to it, it will fill your goblet right up to the top! Don't drink it though or you will die and Drac will be resurrected.
After Drac comes back to life, he gets revenge on the three guys who killed his servant, which makes no sense, since Drac himself took over the dead servant's body to become Drac in the first place.
Not the best of Hammer Films, for sure. Some biting, some blood, a knock on the head with a shovel, and so on. Christopher Lee really hams it up with his bloodshot eyes and flashing fangs! No one does Drac better than Chris!
The possessed daughters killing their own fathers was ironic and yet pathetic at the same time. Not that scary, though I see where the director was going with this.
As far as horror films go, seemed to go for flash more than for substance. Even the music did not evoke much mood.
There are better Hammer films. Rental!
Better:
Hammer Horror Series (Brides of Dracula / Curse of the Werewolf / Phantom of the Opera (1962) / Paranoiac / Kiss of the Vampire / Nightmare / Night Creatures / Evil of Frankenstein)
The Curse of Frankenstein
Horror of Dracula
Rating:  -
After the events of "Dracula Has Risen from The Grave", a store owner named Weller (Roy Kinnear) finds Dracula (Christopher Lee) dying until he turns into red powder as he decides to contain it in a bottle and wants to sell his cape and medallion. Three men such as William Hargood (Geoffrey Keen), Samuel Paxton (Peter Sallis) and Jonathan Secker (John Carson) with Lord Courtley (Ralph Bates) have a secret black mass outside of town as they preform a ritual of unholiness as Lord Courtley drinks Dracula's magic blood as he transforms into the count as he wrecks havok once more. He seeks the blood of a beautiful young woman named Alice (Linda Hayden) who is the daughter to William and her boyfriend Paul (Anthony Corlan) must save the day.
Campy and cheesy yet sometimes enjoyable entry of the Hammer Dracula series is one of their weaker efforts but not as good as the last one. Here Roy Kinnear who played the daddy of Veronica Salt in Willy Wonka does a nice hammy job of acting and Lee proves he is THE dracula besides Bella as there's some nudity but not quite graphic and the violence is a little on the violent side if tame but this is chockloads of campy fun for everyone even Hammer fans.
This DVD has a great uncut transfer of the movie in it's new R-rated version from the original PG rated cut version and has only one extra which is a trailer and that's just it.
Rating: -
This is the fourth instalment in Hammer productions' Dracula series. The storyline is quite unique in that it centers on a group of middle-aged businessmen who inadvertently cause the Count to be resurrected via an occult ritual conducted by a young nobleman, Courtley. They kill Courtley during the ritual, and leave in a hurry, not realising that by committing murder, they have not only caused Dracula to rise again, but awakened his anger. Dracula is bent on revenge for his acolyte's death and proceeds to kill the trio off by manipulating their children.
The acting in this movie was actually pretty good. Christopher Lee reprises his role as the evil Count and actually has quite a few lines of dialogue here, all delivered in his usual deadpan style. His blood- red eyes and demented expressions are all portrayed with chilling effect. The three doomed men are also played really well - Geoffrey Keen as William Hargood, Peter Sallis as Samuel Paxton, and John Carson as Jonathan Secker are all believable in their roles as lecherous middle-aged men whose lust eventually lead to their downfall. The two girls who play Dracula's victims, Linda Hayden as Alice Hargood and Isla Blair as Lucy Paxton are suitably beautiful and do their roles justice.
I thought the production values were above average - the score was effectively creepy, and the sets were well-done, especially the derelict chapel that is the scene of Dracula's resurrection and also the final battle.
All in all, this is a decent Hammer production with an engaging plot and credible acting. A must-have for fans of Dracula as well as those interested in vampire movies.
Rating: -
Taste the Blood of Dracula follows on so directly from Dracula Has Risen From the Grave that, after one particularly bizarre piece of deus ex machina that borders on the inspired, it begins with Roy Kinnear literally stumbling into the last scene of the movie. On a less welcome note it also marks the point at which an increasingly reticent Christopher Lee was reduced to a cameo figure as the Count - it's not until the halfway point that he's resurrected in a less than convincing display of special effects. Until then much of the film is carried, and rather well, by Geoffrey Keen's Bible-bashing strict disciplinarian Victorian dad, the kind of man you can set your watch by as he sets off to do `charity work' in the East End with his respectable friends John Carson and Peter Sallis saving fallen women - about two each once a month in Roy Hudd's brothel discreetly located in the backrooms of a soup kitchen. It's there that he and his pals are surprised playing horsie by Ralph Bates' dissolute disinherited aristo who has sold his soul to the Devil and offers to broker the same deal for them if they'll buy Dracula's cape and blood for him, reasoning that "Having tried everything that your narrow imaginations can suggest, you're bored to death with it all, right?" Naturally it all ends badly with Bates getting a severe case of indigestion after drinking the blood of the title and getting kicked to death by his new friends, conveniently providing Dracula with a new body and a new mission - to destroy all three men through their children (a typical role-call of amply-bosomed totty, future BBC regulars and supporting actors who never made it to the major leagues in the forms of Linda Hayden, Isla Blair, Martin Jarvis and Anthony Higgins in the days when he was still calling himself Anthony Corlan) while Michael Ripper's ineffectual detective displays a pronounced lack of interest in the mounting body count.
The idea of the sins of the fathers being revenged by their children is a good one, offering both a neat twist and a reason for Lee's extremely limited screen time that keeps him very much to the sidelines until the disappointing finale, but it's certainly one of the more entertaining sequels and, a couple of lapses such as the resurrection scene aside, boasts superior and atmospheric direction from Peter Sasdy with some surprisingly graceful camerawork. It's also the last of the Hammer Draculas that looks like they spent some money on it - when they churned out Scars of Dracula the same year, it looked like they'd spent all their money on this one and had only pocket change and whatever was left over in the studio wardrobe for that!
Warner's DVD offers a good widescreen transfer with the original trailer as the only extra.
Rating: -
Christopher Lee stars in this Hammer Horror film about Dracula, he has got to be the best actors to play this role and nobody has ever come close to being as good as him, he just looks very menacing and creepy as the count especially with those red eyes. The film takes place in old Victorian England where a trio of business associates spend the evening in a brothel when they get accosted by Lord Courtley. Rumor has it that Lord Courtley who was disowned by his wealthy family has sold his soul to the devil, this intrigues the group of gentlemen as they've become bored with their usual lifestyle and are looking for something different maybe a supernatural experience and hoping to be initiated in the ways of Satan, the men want Courtley to help them and so Courtley takes them to a place (an abandoned church) where he performs a sacrificial ceremony using the items previously owned by Dracula including a vial of his blood, when something goes wrong the men soon chicken out and then proceed to beat Courtely to death and run away for their lives but soon their despicable and decadent behavior will only get them killed as Dracula is resurrected and he is looking for revenge. He uses their family members against them including the daughter's of some of the men played by Linda Hayden and Ilsa Blair who are under his spell. Taste The Blood Of Dracula is a great old fashioned hammer horror film that I thought was a reasonably entertaining British horror film even though it wasn't the best from the Dracula series it was still quite good and it had a very nice gothic atmosphere that was prevailing through out the film, I highly recommend this.
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