Vampire lord count Meinster hypnotises a young teacher and invades the school she’s teaching at. With Peter Cushing. 85min imdb
Movie 103min
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Recap:
So there is this young teacher on her way to a boarding school for girls, and she meets poor count Meistner who is chained by his evil mother. She frees him, and now the count who is indeed a vampire has access to a hypnotised teacher and an entire girl school. Good thing that van Helsing is on his way.
No Dracula in this one, no Christopher Lee, a quite nice movie for everybody who loves vampires, Hammer or Peter Cushing, but absolutely nothing special. Especially since the only version I found is of not so good quality, image wise.
Classic Dracula movie directed by Terence Fisher for the Hammer Studios. With Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. 82min imdb
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Recap:
Basically, this is the battle of Grand Moff Tarkin versus Count Dooku. Spoiler: the one with the cooler Star Wars movie wins.
Okay, let me try again. This is a Dracula movie, this time Harker is a vampire hunter who tries to kill Dracula but fails, but he kills the bride of Dracula, so Dracula bites him and then goes for Lucy.
Also, this is quite an international movie: the innkeeper has a very blonde (and maybe Swedish?) maid called Inga, and the country where van Helsing resides cannot be England which shares borders only with Scotland and Wales, because in this movie they cross the border with a carriage, and along the border you see on the buildings’ walls German words like Zollamtshaus and Friederickstrasse.
All in all this is a priceless historical document. It’s such a pleasure to see skilled actors working for a skilled director, the sets are not exactly big budget but they look so much better than the nobudget stuff that is shot on location nowadays. I guess that there’s pretty much blood for a 50s movie, and I guess that the faces Lucy and Mina make when they expect Dracula may have been quite suggestive back then. Yet I must say that in my personal opinion the movie today is not as overwhelming as it may once have been. But it’s still great to watch anyway.
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