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The world of the film is far darker and more ambiguous than the Christian-influenced world created by director Terence Fisher for the previous three films in the Dracula series. PLOT The film opens in a middle-European village, where an altar boy discovers the body of a woman in a church. She is a victim of Dracula, and the village - which Dracula's castle overlooks - is now terrified. A Monsignor (Davies) comes to the village on a routine visit, only to find the Priest ( Ewan Hooper ) has apparently lost his faith. To bring to an end the villagers' fears of Dracula, the Monsignor volunteers to go up to the Castle himself, and sanctify it. The Priest joins him, but stops halfway up the mountain and lets the Monsignor continue alone. However, a storm brews, and the Priest becomes scared. He tries to run back down the mountain, but falls, cutting his head on a rock. The blood trickles into a frozen stream and through a crack in the ice, where it touches the lips of the preserved body of Count Dracula. The Monsignor goes back to the village, believing that the Priest had already returned safely, and he assures the villagers that Dracula has been dealt with, and the castle sanctified to protect them from its evil. He then returns to his home city of Carlsbad. Unbeknownst to the Monsignor, the Priest is now under the control of the resurrected Count. Furious that a cross has been erected, preventing him from returning to his castle, Dracula demands to know who is responsible. The Priest leads Dracula to Carlsbad, in pursuit of the Monsignor. There Dracula finds a new victim - the Monsignor's beautiful niece (Carlson). PRODUCTION This was the first of the Hammer Dracula films to be shot at Elstree Studios in London . The film was photographed by Arthur Grant using colored filters belonging to director Freddie Francis, also a cameraman by trade, who had used them when photographing '' The Innocents ''. In Australia, this was the first of the Hammer Draculas to be passed by the censors, the previous films - '''' (1964) - having been banned. The film was slightly trimmed and ran for a three-week season at Sydney's Capitol theatre in January 1970. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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