Fleeing the wrath of the Burgomaster, the father of one of his many sexual conquests, young Paul heads out of town and into the forest. He is refused a room at a remote inn and warned not to go to the nearby castle, but is taken there anyway by a strange, driverless coach. He is greeted by Dracula, a seemingly charming man who offers him the hospitality of his home. When Paul is not heard of again, his brother Simon and girlfriend Sarah set off in search of him…..
Production Details
A Hammer Film production presented by EMI Film Productions Limited, distributed by Anglo-EMI Film Distributors Limited and released through MGM-EMI Film Distributors Limited
Copyright MCMLXX EMI Film Productions Limited – All rights reserved MPAA
Approved Certificate No. 22573
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
Based on the character created by Bram Stoker
RCA Sound Recording
Made at EMI/MGM Elstree Studim, England
Technicolor 96 mins
Filming Began: 14th July 1969
UK Release: 7th May 1970
Studio:
EMI-MGM Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
Location:
Scratchwood, Hertfordshire
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Footnotes
With this film, Hammer upped the stakes (!) in both the sex/nudity and the violence departments, the latter particularly in the near-sadistic scene where Dracula brands Klove.
Jenny Hanley is the daughter of actor Jimmy Hanley, who appeared in Hammer’s Room to Let (1949) and The Lost Continent (1968).