A Fangtastic Sequel ! One Of The Best! (by ianwizard) |
I am a huge Dracula fan. I've always loved the Christopher Lee version of Dracula. When I saw the first one Horror Of Dracula I fell in love with it. After that I saw Dracula Prince Of Darkness it was even better than the first one! After Prince of Darkness I went in order and watched ...Risen From The Grave and it was amazing!. In Dracula Has Risen From The Grave it leaves off from Prince Of Darkness when Dracula drowns under water. I was amazed how Dracula had just risen out of the cold frozen water. A local priest is put under Dracula's spell and goes bad. Dracula hides out in a <more> |
Dark, moody Gothic thriller of Dracula's battle with the Church (by mlraymond) |
Marvelously atmospheric film, with terrific music, strong performances, and a clever script. The opening sequences, with a visiting Monsignor learning that no one will go to the church anymore, since Dracula hung up one of his victims in the bell tower, are tense and involving. The Monsignor's idea ,to free the villagers of their fears by exorcising Dracula's castle, leads to a very dramatic sequence of the two clergymen struggling for hours up an increasingly difficult mountain climb, with the alcoholic priest becoming more and more frightened. The first sight of the castle, sitting <more> |
Classic Hammer Horror (by jamesabutler44) |
I have enjoyed watching Hammer horror films since I was a kid. I am glad that gradually they are being released on DVD. Dracula Has Risen From the Grave takes place a year after Dracula, Prince of Darkness in which Dracula perished in the waters surrounding his castle. Much has been made of the fact that upon his resurrection, Dracula's reflection can be seen in the water by the wayward priest. Who cares?! This isn't Ocar worthy material and such artistic liberties can be freely taken. How about the fact that he keeps finding a way to come back? Or, that from film to film his castle <more> |
So why was the count smiling? (by bygard) |
I bought this movie yesterday as a birthday present to myself and had to watch it right away as it was the last Lee-Dracula that I had missed from my movie collection until now. The first time I saw this one, was some twenty years ago when me and my sister eagerly saw every Hammer production that bursted out of our TV-set during summer nights. Sweet memories but I was just as delighted again. Hello Sis, hope I'll get to show you this one again soon!Christopher Lee is great here as usual. He still stays as my favourite count, no matter how ridiculous the stories around him got in further <more> |
A film that haunts with images. (by Miqque) |
Somehow from childhood I've been sucked into horror films, and those featuring vampires in particular. So, back in 1968 as a naive teen I wandered into the three-films-for-a-buck World Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. This was my first Hammer Film. It was a quantum leap point, blasting from the moodiness of Tod Browning and the camp of the later Universal films into a dark world.Time passes. And out of the hundreds of genre films, "Dracula Has Risen..." haunts with images. Is it a good film? In its way. It is a good, solid B movie; one under Miqque's Ratings I'd give 90%. <more> |
A better than average sequel (by andrewbanks) |
I rather like 'Dracula has risen from the grave'. Admittedly it is not as good as Hammer's original 1958 Dracula movie, but it is still, in my opinion, one of the studio's better Dracula sequels. The director, Freddie Francis, began his career as a cinematographer, and so it was probably his decision to make the interesting use of colour filters, which helps to enhance the film's atmosphere. The production designer on this film is Hammer regular Bernard Robinson, and his work here includes some very impressive sets, such as the exterior of Dracula's castle and the <more> |
the ultimate amalgamation of Hammer Film's conventions (by cinefool) |
If a quintessential example of a Hammer Studio's exercise in Gothic Horror exists, it is probably this film. Not because it is a flawless piece of film-making, far from it. Rather because this film manages to squeeze just about all of Hammer's horror-show templates into it's 92 minute running time.Here we have the unmistakeably distinctive set design and music score by Hammer mainstays Benard Robinson and James Benard; romantic leads transposing post Summer-of-Love sexual mores and hairstyles! to the film's indeterminate post Victorian location; two pub locales, one peopled <more> |
"Bring her to ME!" (by preppy-3) |
This picks up one year after "Dracula--Prince of Drakness". Dracula Christopher Lee is dead but is accidentally brought back to life. Monsignor Ernst Rupert Davies has nailed a cross on Dracula's castle door. For revenge Dracula goes after his beautiful niece Maria Veronica Carlson . But Maria's boyfriend Paul Barry Andrews is ready to fight back.This one starts right off with a bang--within the first 5 minutes we get plenty of blood and a nice closeup of vicious fang wounds in a victims neck. It gets your attention. One of the better Hammer Dracula films. The <more> |
Rest In Peace... (by poe426) |
It came as quite a shock to learn, mere moments ago, that Christopher Lee has gone. I came THIS close to cashing it all in this week, myself: I was driving along, minding my own business, when a 91 year old woman T-boned me- on the driver's side. My hands are trembling even as I write. In his autobiography, Christopher Lee wastes little time on his performance s as Dracula. It's understandable, I suppose: whenever an actor becomes TOO readily identified with a fictional persona, the thespian tends to resent it- and the character. Instances of this are legion. Still, Christopher Lee <more> |