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Dracula A.D. 1972 Movie Review
Dracula A.D. 1972 Review
"Dracula A.D. 1972" Overview
Rating: PG
1972
Cast and Crew
Director : Alan GibsonProducer : Josephine Douglas
Screenwiter : Don Houghton
Starring : Christopher Lee,Peter Cushing,Stephanie Beacham,Christopher Neame,Michael Coles,Marsha A. Hunt,Caroline Munro,Janet Key
Nothing dates your movie faster than putting the year in the title, and for some reason, Dracula movies attract this special folly. Dracula A.D. 1972 (helpfully noting that we're not dealing with some Babylonian Dracula in 1972 B.C.) finds Dracula (Christopher Lee) revived -- inexplicably, by mixing its metaphors and having a group of devil worshippers resurrecting him -- and hanging out with his cronies in swingin' London, where he feasts on boxum gals in low-cut tops when he's not being pursued by the progeny of Van Helsing (Peter Cushing). Rather awful, this is one of the sadder entries in the Dracula canon, offering nothing much that's new to the genre.
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Review by Christopher Null 
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Richard Anthony 
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posted on 23/01/2008 11:57
This was Christopher Lee's sixth Dracula film for Hammer. I enjoy watching it and
it has become one of my favourite Dracula films... I especially like
the more superior sequel, Satanic Rites of Dracula.
Although Lee wasn't particularly happy in
been cast in this role,and argued that he had little opportunity of uttering some
of Bram Stoker's
lines in the film ... he is reunited once more with his arch-nemesis, Van Helsing
played by Peter Cushing. The plot is set around a modern day Chelsea
in 1972 with some "hippy" characters including
Johnny Alucard (Dracula spelt backwards)with buxom
babes Stephanie Beacham and Caroline Munro thrown in for good measure ! Rating 8/10.
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