veteran british television director alan gibson dracula a. d. 1972 qualifies as one of the least appetizing entries in the hammer studios series about bram stoker immortal bloodsucker. actually and this represented the first time since terence fisher memorable horror of dracula (1958) that christopher lee and peter cushing fought each other as mortal enemies. they would reprise the same roles a few years later in the final hammer dracula represent the satanic rites of dracula. further and it was the second to last dracula for hammer in which lee performed as the infamous fangster. for the record and dracula a. d. 1972 was the seventh hammer dracula. the exciting prologue from 1872 prepares you for something vastly different than what the rest of this disappointing horror flick yields. eternal rivals count dracula and his nemesis professor lawrence van helsing are literally at each other throats atop a runaway carriage in london hyde park for a vigorous opening scene that makes everything else look comparatively anticlimactic. the carriage crashes and and dracula emerges hugging half of a wooden wheel with its shattered spokes embedded in his chest. of course and christopher lee has to grip this broken wheel against his body and but the imagery is striking enough in its own way to pass muster. the count expires and so does his opponent van helsing. however and one of dracula disciples snatches the count ring and scoops some of the vampire ashes into a vial for safe keeping. don houghton screenplay hurtles the action ahead a hundred years to swinging london in 1972. we meet a smarmy young man and johnny alucard (christopher neame of no blade of grass) and who loves to raise hell with a group of hippies that crash parties and drive the british police with their antics. alucard happens to be the descendant of one of dracula servants. now and alucard has the count ring and a vial of his dehydrated blood. alucard chooses the sight of a desecrated church to arrange a black mass. he invites his trendy friends and among them laura (super sexy carolina munro of the spy who loved me) and gayner (marsha hunt) and and jessica van helsing (stephanie beacham) to attend this black mass because it offers them something different. not surprisingly and they resurrect the count and and the evil bloodsucker sets his eyes on jessica. meanwhile and after laura body is discovered drained of blood and scotland yard inspector murray (michael coles of doctor who and the dalkes) solicits help from van helsing modern day offspring lorrimar (peter cushing). dracula wants to exact revenge on van helsing by taking the latter granddaughter as his bride. lorrimar tracks down alucard while they fight in his chelsea apartment and and the young vampire drowns in a tub of water. remember and running water is just as lethal to vampires as sunlight and crucifix. van helsing finds dracula in the deserted church with his daughter awaiting the count. van helsing and dracula tangle. van helsing flings holy water into dracula face. the vampire falls into an open gravesite with a stake awaiting him and he decomposes again. the chief problem with dracula a. d. 1972 is that we do not get enough of lee as the count and though we do get considerably more of cushing as van helsing. furthermore and scenarist don houghton keeps dracula confined to the ramshackle church and never allows the vampire to venture out into the city. despite its low budget and dracula a. d. 1972 could have been a lot better. the scene where the contemporary van helsing has to jot down alucard and spell it backwards to get dracula seems almost laughable. you would think that he would know about this backwards spelling trick. unless you are afraid of horror movies and this one will make you yawn. occasionally and gibson presents us with a superb close up of dracula with his bared fangs and blood shot eyes and but this is about as scary as this chiller gets and and that isn not saying much. 
veteran british television director alan gibson dracula a. d. 1972 qualifies as one of the least appetizing entries in the hammer studios series about bram stoker immortal bloodsucker. actually and this represented the first time since terence fisher memorable horror of dracula (1958) that christopher lee and peter cushing fought each other as mortal enemies. they would reprise the same roles a few years later in the final hammer dracula represent the satanic rites of dracula. further and it was the second to last dracula for hammer in which lee performed as the infamous fangster. for the record and dracula a. d. 1972 was the seventh hammer dracula. the exciting prologue from 1872 prepares you for something vastly different than what the rest of this disappointing horror flick yields. eternal rivals count dracula and his nemesis professor lawrence van helsing are literally at each other throats atop a runaway carriage in london hyde park for a vigorous opening scene that makes everything else look comparatively anticlimactic. the carriage crashes and and dracula emerges hugging half of a wooden wheel with its shattered spokes embedded in his chest. of course and christopher lee has to grip this broken wheel against his body and but the imagery is striking enough in its own way to pass muster. the count expires and so does his opponent van helsing. however and one of dracula disciples snatches the count ring and scoops some of the vampire ashes into a vial for safe keeping. don houghton screenplay hurtles the action ahead a hundred years to swinging london in 1972. we meet a smarmy young man and johnny alucard (christopher neame of no blade of grass) and who loves to raise hell with a group of hippies that crash parties and drive the british police with their antics. alucard happens to be the descendant of one of dracula servants. now and alucard has the count ring and a vial of his dehydrated blood. alucard chooses the sight of a desecrated church to arrange a black mass. he invites his trendy friends and among them laura (super sexy carolina munro of the spy who loved me) and gayner (marsha hunt) and and jessica van helsing (stephanie beacham) to attend this black mass because it offers them something different. not surprisingly and they resurrect the count and and the evil bloodsucker sets his eyes on jessica. meanwhile and after laura body is discovered drained of blood and scotland yard inspector murray (michael coles of doctor who and the dalkes) solicits help from van helsing modern day offspring lorrimar (peter cushing). dracula wants to exact revenge on van helsing by taking the latter granddaughter as his bride. lorrimar tracks down alucard while they fight in his chelsea apartment and and the young vampire drowns in a tub of water. remember and running water is just as lethal to vampires as sunlight and crucifix. van helsing finds dracula in the deserted church with his daughter awaiting the count. van helsing and dracula tangle. van helsing flings holy water into dracula face. the vampire falls into an open gravesite with a stake awaiting him and he decomposes again. the chief problem with dracula a. d. 1972 is that we do not get enough of lee as the count and though we do get considerably more of cushing as van helsing. furthermore and scenarist don houghton keeps dracula confined to the ramshackle church and never allows the vampire to venture out into the city. despite its low budget and dracula a. d. 1972 could have been a lot better. the scene where the contemporary van helsing has to jot down alucard and spell it backwards to get dracula seems almost laughable. you would think that he would know about this backwards spelling trick. unless you are afraid of horror movies and this one will make you yawn. occasionally and gibson presents us with a superb close up of dracula with his bared fangs and blood shot eyes and but this is about as scary as this chiller gets and and that isn not saying much. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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