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Written by James M. Tate / 1/01/2025 / No comments / caroline munro , christopher lee , christopher neame , dracula , exploitation , hammer films , janet key , marsha a. hunt , michael coles , peter cushing , pip miller , seventies , stephanie beacham , vampire

HAMMER'S SWINGING LONDON COMEBACK OF 'DRACULA A.D. 1972'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM7qOR0zD_28WY4P1xpRjVH_o6hAdjsh8XSzI5EjFQ8ha496EIdQlRlZt8g37HnKWqDb9oBnkM0EJDWKoXZ4NwtSnIlFhod9JuZBVojt1Am7mscTe-5WJO-KgXvADiptu0twbFTU24BHQg_FqjGDUdNp_VgpyJK4Oobgk0bk7fg_V_JPeZZuUv4orK2uKm/s1644/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-31%20at%204.28.15%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="1644" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM7qOR0zD_28WY4P1xpRjVH_o6hAdjsh8XSzI5EjFQ8ha496EIdQlRlZt8g37HnKWqDb9oBnkM0EJDWKoXZ4NwtSnIlFhod9JuZBVojt1Am7mscTe-5WJO-KgXvADiptu0twbFTU24BHQg_FqjGDUdNp_VgpyJK4Oobgk0bk7fg_V_JPeZZuUv4orK2uKm/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-31%20at%204.28.15%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Cushing scolds Christopher Neame in Dracula A.D. 1972 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>A year after Hammer's progressively-sexual <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/karstein">Karstein Trilogy</a>, thrusting the classic vampire-horror into the counter-culture sensibilities while remaining in their signature Victorian Era, they finally skipped to the present, built right into the DRACULA A. D. 1972 title... And while Peter Cushing's college professor Van Helsing heir has several long bouts of exposition and two third-act vampire battles, Christopher Lee basically hangs around at the same gothic church where he was reawakened by a young British swinger, who's basically the main character here, or at least, technically speaking, the most important...

caroline munro, christopher lee, christopher neame, dracula, exploitation, hammer films, janet key, marsha a. hunt, michael coles, peter cushing, pip miller, seventies, stephanie beacham, vampire

HAMMER'S SWINGING LONDON COMEBACK OF 'DRACULA A.D. 1972'

Peter Cushing scolds Christopher Neame in Dracula A.D. 1972 Rating: ****1/2 A year after Hammer's progressively-sexual Karstein Trilogy ...

CLASSIC HORROR VIBES REVIVING 'THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiObePtAJXoDJjFC2YKppkkqyxv26BMVieghj0LQm3SNIhilAESFzrnZUZ9rT79iWA7wR_lxS-EWDmvE9kR1K14bCK0N_bbnn3V75vg9PUTNQGnCdgdB6sk7_WBTKarYG6gm6rUq0-jiViTTsIO6hrVmi9vPwcpMEUHpWJrvYDPiTmWHJqt4b_1YiymLsf9/s1930/1%202%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1930" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiObePtAJXoDJjFC2YKppkkqyxv26BMVieghj0LQm3SNIhilAESFzrnZUZ9rT79iWA7wR_lxS-EWDmvE9kR1K14bCK0N_bbnn3V75vg9PUTNQGnCdgdB6sk7_WBTKarYG6gm6rUq0-jiViTTsIO6hrVmi9vPwcpMEUHpWJrvYDPiTmWHJqt4b_1YiymLsf9/s16000/1%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Virginia North in THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>For American International Pictures, THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES was a hit, and for star Vincent Price, a comeback... despite the fact he never followed it up with anything quite as good and, for a comparably modern body count horror still holding onto the antique Victorian style within then present-day England, the titular Phibes gets severe revenge by killing off an assortment of who we later learn are fellow doctors that had...Well that's something that shouldn't be spoiled despite every summary doing so, particularly since the movie deliberately plays out with that very twist concealed... while each and every Biblical Plague death carried-out, from a man in a suffocating frog mask to killer bats to bloodletting and being frozen alive in an automobile, is unique and spellbinding... and a lot of bloody fun with the kind of class that Price, only able to speak through a contraption that makes the audience basically adhere to an expository narration, pulls off with ease...

american international, amicus, body count, caroline munro, dark comedy, exploitation, horror, peter jeffrey, seventies, terry-thomas, vincent price, virginia north

CLASSIC HORROR VIBES REVIVING 'THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES'

Virginia North in THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2 For American International Pictures, THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES was a ...

VINTAGE HAMMER FILMS GOES MODERN FOR 'DRACULA A.D. 1972'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLH-qKYnvcvmdGe2Gg8MLEyhsicsffMf6MVQt1wz_cT28Eq22qYpwnefTHZXd1rqcw08GP9Une8o76z3icaZq4OjpDn6ln00Rsd6ZHNVGhm7DHWtWcs2GfYUEwOcPzzy1LoghHFscR8nr8n0tl2RxziOhb_LUJwxsuMDHBsmjJHG_Dg0kFRrDe2Fa0MVY7/s1082/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-15%20at%2011.53.44%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="1082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLH-qKYnvcvmdGe2Gg8MLEyhsicsffMf6MVQt1wz_cT28Eq22qYpwnefTHZXd1rqcw08GP9Une8o76z3icaZq4OjpDn6ln00Rsd6ZHNVGhm7DHWtWcs2GfYUEwOcPzzy1LoghHFscR8nr8n0tl2RxziOhb_LUJwxsuMDHBsmjJHG_Dg0kFRrDe2Fa0MVY7/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-15%20at%2011.53.44%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher Neame steals the show of Hammer's DRACULA A.D. 1972 Rating: **** </td></tr></tbody></table>Dracula, revamped by Hammer film staple Christopher Lee, returns to England during the hippie era, 1972: Summoned by a group of swinging hippie rebels led by A CLOCKWORK ORANGE style 
swinger, who gathers his "gang" in a dilapidated old church where Drac's
 ashes were buried years ago... 
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The kids sit in a counter-culture style party circle, chant some spells, writhe and moan as the 
fanged foe emerges from the grounds of the churchyard outside...

caroline munro, christopher lee, christopher neame, hammer films, horror, marsha a. hunt, peter cushing, seventies, stephanie beacham, vampire

VINTAGE HAMMER FILMS GOES MODERN FOR 'DRACULA A.D. 1972'

Christopher Neame steals the show of Hammer's DRACULA A.D. 1972 Rating: **** Dracula, revamped by Hammer film staple Christopher Lee, r...

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