The Satanic Rites of Dracula
| 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... |






















This was the first Hammer Dracula I ever saw so I am partial to it. Done at the height of the “sexploitation” era it’s undercurrent of falling into the wrong crowd theme can be taken as the jumping off point for future vampire films.
The downside of this film is the misleading view of witches.