The Brides of Dracula (1960)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Director: Terrence Fisher
Screenplay: Jimmy Sangster & Peter Bryan & Edward Percy and Anthony Hinds (uncredited)
Stars: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur and David Peel.
The Pitch: “Hey, let’s make a Dracula movie without Dracula…”
Tagline: The most evil Dracula of all!
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
If you come to this movie looking for Dracula or even a focus on the Brides of Dracula you’re in for a let down.
Instead you get…
- A vampire who is kept chained up by his mother. Yes, his mother.
- A vampire hunter who always arrives right before the vampire is to rise for the evening — even though he knows vampires are powerless during the day.
- A vampire who isn’t smart enough or cunning enough or strong enough to escape from the chain around his ankle put there by his mother. Yes, his mother.
- A supposedly intelligent woman who releases the vampire (not knowing he’s a vampire — Hey! But maybe he’s chained up by his mother for a reason) and falls in love with him after one meeting.
- A vampire hunter bitten by a vampire who takes a hot metal branding iron and places it on the bites on his neck and then pours Holy water on the wound… and fully recovers! [Who knew he had that cure in his back pocket.]
- A vampire who has blonde hair and is supposed to be good-looking and scary but isn’t much of either.
- A vampire hunter who kills vampires with a shadow.
- A movie that only die hard vampire or Peter Cushing fans should seek out.
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