The Satanic Rites of Dracula

1254-poster
release date November 30 1973
studio Hammer Films
director Alan Gibson
writer Don Houghton
starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles, William Franklyn, Freddie Jones
rating
R
tagline The Masters of Menace Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. They're dead but they're alive...

Synopsis

In London in the 1970s, Scotland Yard police investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism. They call in an expert vampire researcher named Van Helsing (an ancestor of the great vampire-hunter himself, no less) to help them put a stop to these hideous crimes. It becomes apparent that the culprit is Count Dracula himself, disguised as a reclusive property developer, but secretly plotting to unleash a fatal virus upon the world.

Official Review

Five of the most powerful and influential men in England have joined a satanic cult. One is a Nobel Prize winning bacteriologist who is developing a deadly new strain of the bubonic plague. Another is a mysterious billionaire industrialist whose corporate headquarters are located on the site of Dracula’s grave. Could the unseen financier of this diabolical coven be the bloodsucking Prince of Darkness himself? …Read More

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Official Score: 3 / 5