{"id":37571,"date":"2024-11-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37571"},"modified":"2024-11-06T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T01:55:03","slug":"horror-of-dracula-1958-starring-peter-cushing-and-christopher-lee-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37571","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Horror of Dracula&#8221; (1958) starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z110924zview_horrorofdracula.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"711\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Horror of Dracula <\/i><\/strong>aka<strong><i> Dracula <\/i>(1958)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Terence Fisher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Jimmy Sangster<\/strong> based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3O3Tmah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>DRACULA<\/em><\/a> by <strong>Bram Stoker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Valerie Gaunt<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> Important Note!! Don&#8217;t Confuse This Picture With the Other DRACULA Movies! This is the NEWEST and BEST One and the ONLY ONE in TECHNICOLOR!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doctor Van Helsing (Cushing) is shocked to discover his friend Jonathan Harker has been turned into one of Dracula&#8217;s (Lee) vampire slaves.\u00a0 Van Helsing realizes it is up to him to end Dracula&#8217;s reign of terror.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What chance has one man against Dracula?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christopher Lee as Dracula has only 16 lines of dialogue in the entire film.\u00a0 And they are all within the first ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The title was changed to the <em>Horror of Dracula<\/em> for its U.S. release.\u00a0 This was to avoid confusion since the original 1931 Bela Lugosi film was still available for theater showings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I first saw Christopher Lee as Dracula, I wasn&#8217;t a fan.\u00a0 I was too sold on Lugosi as the Count.\u00a0 Over the years I&#8217;ve grown to appreciate Lee&#8217;s take on the king of vampires and the movies that feature him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i>Horror of Dracula <\/i><\/strong>aka<strong><i> Dracula <\/i>(1958)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z110924zview_horrorofdracula2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror of Dracula aka Dracula (1958) Director: Terence Fisher Screenplay: Jimmy Sangster based on DRACULA by Bram Stoker Stars: Peter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37572,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37571\/revisions\/37572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}