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Taste the Blood of Dracula

Taste the Blood of Dracula

Horror · 1970

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.

Movie details

Taste the Blood of Dracula

“DRINK A PINT OF BLOOD A DAY”

1970 Horror 1h 35m

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6.1 / 10

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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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The people responsible.

Directed by

Peter Sasdy

Written by

Anthony Hinds

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Dracula

Geoffrey Keen

Geoffrey Keen

William Hargood

Gwen Watford

Gwen Watford

Martha Hargood

Linda Hayden

Linda Hayden

Alice Hargood

Peter Sallis

Peter Sallis

Samuel Paxton

Anthony Higgins

Anthony Higgins

Paul Paxton

Isla Blair

Isla Blair

Lucy Paxton

Court is in session

Put Taste the Blood of Dracula on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.