Running time: 85 min
Cert: 12
Director: Terence Fisher
Starring: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur
Our Curator, Kim Newman says: This splendidly gothic follow-up to Hammer’s 1958 Dracula leaves Christopher Lee’s Count in ashes but pits Peter Cushing’s stalwart Van Helsing against Baron Meinster (David Peel), who seems to be Dracula’s ex-boyfriend. A winsome heroine (Yvonne Monlaur) stays overnight at a lonely castle and is persuaded by the handsome Baron to unlock the silver chain his devoted mother (Martita Hunt) uses to keep him in check. Cushing is surrounded by an eccentric supporting cast and director Terence Fisher staging memorable sequences: Van Helsing branding his throat to cauterise a vampire bite, a crone cackling like a midwife as she resurrects a new-made vampire from a shallow grave, and a stirring finale involving holy water, fire and a windmill.
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