Very well executed

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is a sequel to Dracula has risen from the grave. It is one of the scariest movies ever made. If you like scary movies then you need to see this movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. In it very intense. Dracula is resurrected. He is out of revenge of the people who killed his servant. This is very scary movie. Scars of Dracula is a little better. Dracula A.D 1972 is also a little better. The satanic rites of Dracula is also a little better. This is the fifth part to the Dracula hammer series. It is better then the first four. Don't get me wrong the first four hammer Dracula movies are very scary. But this one his scarier.

Decent entry in Hammer's Dracula franchise doesn't feature the famed bloodsucker very strongly, and in fact this feature didn't start its life as a Dracula sequel. Sir Christopher Lee was becoming very reluctant to keep playing the role, yet Warner Bros. - Seven Arts didn't want to help bankroll the production unless he was in it. The result is a story of Dracula recruiting other unfortunate people to help him get even with a trio of distinguished gentlemen. These three men were on the surface respected members of society, but got bored and starting doing decadent things in private. They were lured into performing a black magic ritual by young Lord Courtley (Ralph Bates), a disciple of the Count, only to change their minds and beat the Lord to death. So the Count seduces young Alice (Linda Hayden) and turns her friend Lucy (Isla Blair) into a vampire, while Alices' nice guy boyfriend Paul (Anthony Higgins) tries to save the day. As we can see, this is an intriguing enough set-up that didn't necessarily need the Dracula character. It's not too much fun to see Sir Christopher do so little; the Count just isn't as intimidating as he usually is. Those blood red eyes are always cool, though, and amid the expected excellent period recreation by Hammer's old pros are great sets and costumes, along with a fine and grandiose score by James Bernard. The cast is full of some excellent actors: Geoffrey Keen is the stiff William Hargood, Peter Sallis and John Carson his two associates, Roy Kinnear the dubious merchant Weller, and Michael Ripper the disinterested Inspector Cobb. Higgins is extremely likable as the hero, while Hayden and Blair are very easy to look at; in fact, Hayden is one of the loveliest young ladies ever to grace a Hammer film with her presence. Hungary born director Peter Sasdy, who does a capable job with the material, went on to do the Hammer films "Countess Dracula" and "Hands of the Ripper" (not to mention the TV series 'Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense'). All things considered, this is a good horror film that just isn't as effective or as satisfactory as the best films in this franchise. Seven out of 10.

OK - I start out the usual 9 out of 10 for the film getting the usual Hammer treatment - great sets, obsessed art direction, hard working and talented actors who treat the script like Shakespeare, wonderful costumes, etc. As in most of the best Hammer films, the director knows just how long to hold a shot, just how long to hold a scene, and just how to frame and block his actors. As an exercise in atmosphere and production craftsmanship, this is top notch.However, the series was beginning to suffer from sequel-itis and staleness, and when Dracula keeps getting killed over and over again, he loses some of his impact as a dark force of nature. Given that in one of the later Hammer Dracula films he was killed by a bush (sure, it was a hawthorn, the stuff composing Christ's crown of thorns, but still...a bush), I tend to imagine that I myself could destroy Dracula on a boring Sunday afternoon if I happened to have a cross at hand and some holy water. I hate to see Dracula just turned into another pesky monster who gets dispatched in increasingly trivial ways as the number of films about him mount up over the years.And the plotting has a pedestrian "set them up and knock them down" quality that bring things down a few more notches - Lee doesn't have very much to do, and he doesn't get very many lines. He just kind or lurks around and gets his hypnotized servants to kill his victims for him. The plot also raises more questions it never gets around to answering: what did Ralph Bate's character THINK was going to happened when he and the three businessmen drank the count's blood? How did the last of the three businessmen all of a sudden become a hero and a vampire expert (at least as his voice-over/letter advises the romantic hero on what to do next?) So, great looking film and I really enjoyed the actors' performances, but some ludicrous dialog and lack of inventiveness in the way the storyline progressed and the previously mentioned sequel-itis keeps this from being a GREAT Hammer film. But if you enjoy the Hammer style, you'll want to see this one on principle.

"Taste the Blood of Dracula" marked Christopher Lee's fourth incarnation of Bram Stoker's irrepressible Transylvanian vampire. Previously, Hammer Films had confined Dracula to the European continent. Anthony Hinds' screenplay brings the Count to England and focuses on the outrageous hypocrisy of three respectable British gentlemen who like to walk on the wild side. They engage in an act of black magic and bring doom down on their heads as a consequence. This is the first "Dracula" epic to take a social commentary angle. Furthermore, director Peter Sasdy and Hinds refrain from mentioning the word 'vampire' until 72 minutes has elapsed.An English merchant named Weller (Roy Kinnear of "The Three Musketeers") is unceremoniously pitched out of a coach when he upsets a retarded man. Weller sprawls out unconsciously on the ground and doesn't awaken for some time after the coach has gone. He gathers up his goods and sets off into the woods. The howl of a wolf and then several eldritch screams assail his ears and he flees in panic for nowhere in particular until he loses his footing and plunges down a slope. When he looks up, Weller spots the infamous Count Dracula writhing in agony on a golden crucifix. Dracula (Christopher Lee of "Horror of Dracula") dies on the crucifix and his body dissolves along with his blood. Indeed, "Countess Dracula" director Peter Sasdy's "Taste the Blood of Dracula" picks up where "Dracula Has Risen From the Grave" concluded. Dracula fell from his castle and landed on the crucifix. Impaled, he bled blood from his eyeballs as he struggled and Weller watched in horror as the infamous Count vanished, leaving behind his stylistic black cape, his ring, and a buckle with the name 'Dracula' on it.The narrative shifts to Victorian England as wealthy William Hargood (Geoffrey Keen of "Dr. Zhivago") and his wife Martha (Gwen Watford) are leaving church. Their comely teenage daughter Alice (Linda Hayden of "Old Drac") is infatuated with handsome Paul Paxton (Anthony Higgins of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"), but Alice's father disapproves of the shameless fashion with which she is carrying on and confines her to her room for her behavior. After church, stuff hypocritical William joins his comrades Samuel Paxton (Peter Sallis of "Wuthering Heights") and Jonathon Secker (John Carson of "The Plague of the Zombies") as they head out to perform charity work in London's East End. Well, Martha Hargood believes her dutiful husband William is helping the destitute. Little does she know that the trio of businessmen are indulging in carnal pleasures. Specifically, they are huddled around a woman dancing with a python wrapped around her shoulders. In the midst of their pleasure, the threesome notice Felix (Russell Hunter) trying to dissuade a young gentlemen from barging in on them.Lord Courtley (Ralph Bates of "Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde") invades their company. Courtley has been disowned by his wealthy father, and he convinces the thrill seeking trio to do something really terrible. He inquires if they would like to sell their souls to the devil. He takes them to see Weller and the merchant sells the dried blood of Dracula to them for a thousand guineas. Later, they meet in a cathedral, and Courtley gives them each a goblet and distributes a portion of Dracula's dried blood in it. He slashes his hand and squeezes his own blood into each vessel and the stuff bubbles up with thunder and lightning accompanying it. When Courtley commands them to drive, they shrink in revulsion at his demand. Meanwhile, Courtley drinks from a chalice. He screams out them in agony and collapses himself in front of them. As he begs them to help him, the three old men strike him viciously with their canes and kick poor Courtley to death. They flee from the church. Hargood returns home and orders Martha to tell anybody who asks that he spent the evening at home. Not long after the three have gone, Courtley's supine body is covered with dust and Dracula emerges from it. Dracula reappears at 45 minutes into the action. "They have killed my servant," he observes and then vows. "They will be destroyed." Meantime, in the country somewhere, Alice and Paul celebrate the occasion of Lucy Paxton's engagement to her lover Jeremy Secker (Martin Jarvis) while they cavort about on horseback. Of course, Alice's father would be livid with indignation at the thought that Alice would disobey him and ride with Paul. Hargood meets with Secker and Paxton and they discuss their alibi. Later, after Hargood returns home, he catches Alice fresh from the party with Paul. He slaps her around and she flees right into Dracula's arms. Hargood pursues Alice into the garden and Dracula hypnotizes her into killing her abusive father with a shovel. "The first," utters Dracula solemnly. After Hargood's funeral, Alice entreats Lucy to meet her and they take a ride in a coach to the church where Dracula was resurrected and he turns Lucy into a vampire. Eventually, Secker and Paxton return to the premises to see if Courtley's body has been discovered. Imagine Paxton's surprise when they find Lucy with bite marks on her neck in a crypt! Secker calls her a vampire.Ralph Bates excels as the upstart Courtley, Dracula's servant, who arranges for his return. Christopher Lee is his usual dignified self in his red-lined cape and fangs. "Taste the Blood of Dracula" differs from previous "Dracula" films with the fiendish bloodsucker exacting revenge on the trio that murdered his servant. The camera work is excellent.