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BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960)

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christine1971	BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960)	Lead	[-]
Dec 29 09 3:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is unshamedly nostalgic review: I love Hammer Gothic, and BRIDES OF DRACULA is their best film, a sublime Gothic romance/adventure. Richly romantic colours, sets and costumes create magnificent and dazzlingly clean fairytale Transylvania, a delicious place for supernatural. Dialogue is wonderful: "Transylvania, land of dark forests, dread mountains and black, unfathomed lakes. Still the home of magic and devilry as the nineteenth century draws to it's close. Count Dracula, monarch of all vampires, is dead, but his disciples live on, to spread the cult and corrupt the world." "There's a wolf down there. And an owl. He's get them all astir, trust him." Redhaired and poutylipped Marianne, dressed in pastel and crimson, is perfect Gothic heroine: epitome of angelic beauty and purity, she goes to help mentally ill man, and ends to free a vampire! Peter Cushing is best Van Helsing and David Peel, despite his ludicrous facial expressions in vampire form, is great, too. Yvonne Monlaur, who plays Marianne, has chemistry with both of her leading men. And how about the exciting finale, where the wind-mill forms a cross? They don´t make like this anymore! Too bad Hammer and Peter Cushing did not make more adventures of Van Helsing. (Except odd LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES, one of the rare Hammer vampire films where I have glimpsed my watch and hoped it´s all over and I can go to coffee.) BRIDES OF DRACULA: 10/10. It was pure lunacy... and better pure lunacy than filthy sanity!
blackbiped		#1	[-]
Jan 4 10 11:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Nice review! I'm in total agreement with you about this flick. Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way. Porfle's Secret Blog HK and Cult Film News Andersonvision.com
Zombie Dad		#2	[-]
Jan 4 10 10:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Me too! I love all of the Hammers from this period, but this is the one I still watch the most. Freda Jackson and Martita Hunt add much to this movie as well. And your so right about the look of this Hammer classic, Christine! ZD Zombie Dad's Online Art Store www.zazzle.com/zombiedad
leopardpride.filmlandclassics		#3	[-]
Jan 5 10 1:39 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One of my favorite non-Chris Lee vampire movies. Freda Jackson was absolutely perfect as the crazed caretaker/nanny/housekeeper. This was the second movie, I think, that Freda and Martita were in together. They were in the 1946 version of "Great Expectations". Freda was Mrs. Joe Gargery and Martita wonderfully played Miss Havisham. "The Brides of Dracula" is really one of the best Dracula movies ever filmed, at least in my opinion. Excellent review, christine1971! Kim "I am the shadow on the moon at night Filling your dreams to the brim with fright"
tnt		#4	[-]
Jan 23 10 4:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	BRIDES OF DRACULA has one of my favorite vampire ladies in it...Andree Melly as Gina. Maybe that's why I keep painting her every so often! Your Signature ...www.woodywelch.net
christine1971		#5	[-]
Jan 26 10 4:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thank you so much to everybody! It was pure lunacy... and better pure lunacy than filthy sanity!
Slaphappy		#6	[-]
Feb 7 10 11:52 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	brides of Dracula was one of the first hammer vampire movies i saw, and i loved it hammer movies always seem to pull it off for me there style of filming and the Gothic twist of the sets i would give this movie a 4 out of 5

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