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CHRISTPHER LEE VAMPING 'DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE'

Title: DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE Year: 1968 Rating: ***

Hammer's DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE came out in 1968, and the studio must have really needed younger viewers to relate with the hero as Barry Andrews looks far from the Victorian Era setting... 

With a frizzy perm, groovy clothes and being a proud and confident Atheist scholar (for what it's never clear), his girlfriend... niece of the monsignor who accidentally resurrected DRACULA while exorcising a cursed church... is what GRAVE is really all about...

Barbara Ewing in DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE

But it's the First Girl, in this case Barry's flamboyant barmaid workmate, Barbara Ewing, that brings back the genuine Hammer-ingenue vibe since she's so wonderfully seductive and frisky, experienced and downright voluptuous... and she actually becomes Dracula's second hypnotized victim...

His first being one of the main characters in Ewan Hopper as a priest who'd been the monsignor's frightened sidekick, and now he's Dracula's frantic sidekick, helping the caped foe find that gorgeous blonde... 

Veronica Carlson in DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE

Played by real life model Veronica Carlson (eerily resembling Sharon Tate), she's a little more befitting the antique era than her hipster fiance, but, despite the neat-looking 1800's rural-village aesthetic including gothic rooftop matte paintings, this DRACULA isn't altogether bad for what it's meant to be...

Directed by cinematographer Freddie Francis replacing an injured Terence Fisher, GRAVE is a reworking of Fisher's original HORROR OF DRACULA where the prettiest girl, under a spell, lays sick in bed while it's up to the good guys, plural... in this case the tubby priest being more heroic than that anachronistic hippie... to save her in time...

Ewan Hooper in DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE

From none other than Christopher Lee, who hardly speaks a word being that, in real life, he was once again (reportedly) dead-set against what he was most famous for: returning as Hammer's most famous villain... 

And since there aren't many scenes involving his titular character... mostly involving the lackluster romance between the miscast young couple... Dracula's not all that fun to love-to-hate this time around, having his best moments with the lusty barmaid and that secondary priest. 

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