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Alan GibsonScenario:
Don HoughtonCamera:
Dick BushMuziek:
Mike VickersActeurs:
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Christopher Neame, Michael Coles, Caroline Munro, Stephanie Beacham, Michael Kitchen, Cory Lerios, Lewis Alexander (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
London's become a small town for a handful of jaded psychedelic-era hipsters. But Johnny Alucard has a groovy new way for his pals to get their kicks. A certain ritual will be the living end, he insists. And if you still wonder where Johnny's coming from, try spelling his last name backwards. Dracula is raised into the modern era in this Hammer Studios shocker that's "quite well done" (John Stanley). Christopher Lee dons the cape for the sixth time and seeks out fresh victims. As archnemesis Van Helsing, fellow horror legend Peter Cushing clutches a vial of holy water and edges within throwing distance. Their harrowing battle royale is not to be missed. In fact, it's the living end. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
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Dracula A.D. 1972 is the seventh in a series of vampire films - or with references to Count Dracula - produced under the banner of the Hammer studio. Thanks to the change in setting but retaining the classic actors, the film manages to captivate and maintain an atmosphere that is at times very good, with references to the classic installments before it. This is definitely not a film the studio should be ashamed of.
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It's one of only two films starring Christopher Lee as the good old Count that have been released on DVD in this country, so I wasn't too sure I wanted it, and just hoped that I wouldn't need to know the six (five?) previous ones to enjoy it. It didn't. Actually, even the slightest knowledge of the subject would probably be useless, because Dracula A.D. 1972 is something so special that it's better not to think about Bram Stoker. It begins in 1872 with the spectacular deaths of Dracula and Van Helsing and, after the funeral, cuts to a jet plane and moves forward a hundred years to a party of debauched British youth that looks like something Stanley Kubrick couldn't fit into A Clockwork Orange. Later, bored teenagers, dispersed by the police, decide to summon the powers of hell, and the leader of the gang, Johnny Alucard (a sly misdirection, but Van Helsing uses a first-grade elementary school method to reveal it), finally brings his sharp-toothed grandfather back to life, Christopher Lee begins to enjoy himself, Scotland Yard launches an investigation, Peter Cushing's Van Helsing polishes a silver knife and prepares holy water, and his granddaughter gradually disposes of unnecessary items of clothing. It's a good and entertaining film. Actually, it doesn't really matter that Dracula paradoxically didn't get much space, because there's still something interesting, thrilling, even funny happening from time to time (the duel between Dracula and Van Helsing, backed by a groovy soundtrack, that's one of the things you'll either like or not, there's no other option)... And boredom is almost non-existent.
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