Great discussion folks. I wish I had my copy of Little Shoppe -- it's buried in a Rondo pile somewhere at home! -- to see how much they got into some of these issues.

I'm a big fan of BRIDES OF DRACULA, particularly the excruciating neck-scourging scene by Cushing, and the windmill-shadow ending, which is one of the all-time moments in all vampire films.

But somewhere along the middle the film always loses me, as do so many Hammers, getting in an odd way as stagebound as the 1931 version.

The victims talk and talk, always the last to know, while the audience wants to start screaming, 'He's a vampire, stupid!' It's a special Hammer phenomenom, and slows BRIDES down just enough to keep it second to HORROR OF DRACULA in my ever-changing list.

That the film is not on DVD is a travesty. Maybe soon?