Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Country: UK
Year: 1970
Studio: Hammer
Director: Peter Sasdy
Stars: Christopher Lee (Dracula), Geoffrey Keen (William Hargood), Linda Hayden (Alice Hargood), Peter Sallis (Samuel Paxton), Anthony Higgins (Paul Paxton), Isla Blair (Lucy Paxton), John Carson (Jonathon Secker), Martin Jarvis (Jeremy Secker), Ralph Bates (Lord Courtley), Roy Kinnear (Weller), Michael Ripper (Inspector Cobb), Russell Hunter (Felix).
Genre: Vampire
Taste the Blood of Dracula
Yet another Hammer classic. Three ageing gentlemen (Harwood, Paxton and Secker) form a circle they claim is devoted to charity work but is in fact a front for their indulgence in brothels and hedonistic pleasures. They meet up in one such brothel, with Lord Courtley - disinherited because of his participation in Black Mass - and in their search for further pleasures are convinced to take part in the daddy of all Black Masses. When the three men refuse to drink Dracula's blood, Courtley does and collapses and the men kick and beat him to death then try to go on with their everyday lives. But Courtley turns into Count Dracula and he wants revenge for the death of his servant through the three men's children.
This is one of my favourites of the Hammer Dracula movies. It's fairly funny, not just because it's got one of the old codgers from Last of the Summer Wine in it as one of the three gentlemen. It's well amusing if you imagine that this (Peter Sallis) is the voice of Wallace from 'Wallace and Gromit' in a brothel. Christopher Lee is as fab as ever and it's a stellar cast generally. Top one!
Reviewer - @helen_of_horror
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