Christopher Lee in COUNT DRACULA (1970)

A scene from Jess Franco's low budget adaptation of Dracula.

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Film & Animation

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• Jess Franco
• Christopher Lee
• Dracula
• Bram Stoker
• vampire

[DanNZ4]

Is this like a remake of the hammer film "Horror of Dracula"?

[kriitikko]

@DanNZ4 Nah, just another of many adaptations of Dracula. Just happens to have the same actor in it.

[randomdave30]

Given that he can speak five languages, why on earth Lee never attempted to play Draxula with an accent.... He did in one scene in his last Hammer Dracula but he could have made an effort in this european production..

[kriitikko]

@randomdave30 I could be wrong but I think he didn't do the accent for his first Dracula film because people mainly associated Dracula with Bela Lugosi, and he wanted to be different. And after all those films in Hammer he probably figured when doing this "why change tactics now?" I think it's only great that he went to a totally different way than Lugosi, because the only person who can play the famous Lugosi Dracula is Bela Lugosi.

[Phosonell]

This zooms are soooooo awful!

[kriitikko]

@Phosonell lol They are! XD

[flanneryged]

I would say that Christopher Lee was perhaps the "Ultimate" Count.The early Hammers where Dracula never spoke were good,however I reckon it's more plausable when he does speak.Lee certainly had got this Part down to a Tee by the time he become wanted for bigger and better things.He jumped straight from this then onto the Bond franchise "Live and Let Die".

[danielmajgren]

A Dracula movie without Christopher Lee, is a mistake. Sir Christopher should be proud of all his Dracula films. Nobody could ever do him the act.

[DanNZ4]

@secondmrswatson perhapes

[bowler8]

This is like the scene in the Bram Stokers dracula movie with Gary Oldman

[secondmrswatson]

@DanNZ4 This was supposed to be the first adaptation accurate to Stoker's novel. It was...more or less.

[gribbleparts]

@EloiseDecember Dark Places... I'll check it out. I watched 'Legend of Hell House' last night, a somewhat obscure haunted house flick. Very good, but the ending was botched. Book is better. Big fan of the book. Matheson, the author, also wrote the screen play, but in transferring his story to screen he was very limited by the censorship of the time.

[EloiseDecember]

@gribbleparts ol you are right about the male characters! Haunting of Julia and Full Circle..thanks for the tip. Love discovering forgotten/underrated gems. Here is one for you: "Dark Places" with Joan Collins and Christopher Lee and another leading actor who is really good, avail on here. So easy to build tension, done so many times in so many movies. Pity it's not done here esp. when you have the brilliant Christopher Lee at your disposal! Will look up that book, sounds good..

[gribbleparts]

@EloiseDecember The writing can be ponderous. Van Helsing's a ham. The other men are dull and insufferable romantics. The only character I like in it is Dracula! I liked the Omen.. The Haunting of Julia/Full Circle .. that's under-rated. I think it's on here somewhere. A book that made an impression on me lately John Shirley's Demons ...

[EloiseDecember]

@gribbleparts no, it is a project for someone to do it properly. I love Christopher Lee. It is nothing to do with him. It would be nice to see someone with vision do it but add something because though the start with the Borgo Pass and all that is excellent I think the book loses pace when Harker gets back to England. For me the Omen was one of the scariest movies made and it shows what you can do with a demonic protagonist.

[gribbleparts]

@EloiseDecember Ya, in the book he is anxious to talk because he wants to improve his English and enjoys talking into the night about his past. . when he is finally done with Harker his demeanor changes from cultured nobleman to hungry animal. Louis Jourdan's tv version accomplishes this somewhat. I don't think I've seen Dracula performed entirely to my satisfaction, quite frankly.

[zcarluz]

ha um erro ai na epoca do filme nao percebemos DRACULA NAO ENVELHECE ELE É IMORTAL kkkkkkkkkkk

[EloiseDecember]

In the book Dracula and the solicitor spend hours talking with Dracula delighting in the man's company and being in every sense the affable and charming host. Not austere like Lee is playing it. I suppose it would not have been as scary if they had done it like the book.