‘Previous, current or future, by no means depend out the Depend!’
Dracula A.D. 1972 is a supernatural horror movie. A century after his remaining battle with Professor Van Helsing – Depend Dracula is resurrected by occultist Johnny Alucard, and goes after his archenemy’s descendants.
The film was directed by Alan Gibson (Crescendo; Goodbye Gemini) from a screenplay by Don Houghton.
The Hammer Movies manufacturing stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham and Christopher Neame (Lust for a Vampire; Transformations; Species III).
Not like earlier movies in Hammer’s Dracula sequence, Dracula A.D. 1972 had a up to date setting, in an try and replace the Dracula story for contemporary audiences. The Depend is introduced again to life in trendy London and preys on a gaggle of younger party-goers, that features the descendant of his nemesis, Van Helsing.
It’s the seventh Hammer movie that includes Dracula and the sixth to star Christopher Lee within the title function. It additionally sees the return of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing for the primary time since The Brides of Dracula in 1960 and is the primary to function each Lee and Cushing of their respective roles since 1958’s Dracula.
Following the success of the modern-day vampire movie Depend Yorga, Vampire, Warner Bros commissioned two Hammer Dracula movies set within the current day, which had been to grow to be Dracula A.D. 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula. The movie was apparently impressed by the occasions surrounding the Highgate Vampire case. Manufacturing started in September 1971 as Dracula In the present day.
The soundtrack was composed by former Manfred Mann member Mike Vickers and is in a cool, ‘blaxploitation’ fashion that displays the early Seventies setting of the movie. It was not launched commercially previous to a long-awaited CD launch in 2009. The movie additionally options two songs, “Alligator Man” and “You Higher Come By way of for Me” by the American band Stoneground, who had been a late alternative for The Faces. The Black Mass section makes use of the monitor “Black Mass: An Electrical Storm in Hell” by the pioneering digital group White Noise. The Black Mass scene with Christopher Neame’s dialogue was additionally sampled by Orbital for “Devil Dwell” and “Rigidity”.
In March 2016, Loss of life Waltz Recordings issued Mike Vickers’ soundtrack as a 1000-only restricted version psychedelic splatter vinyl launch.
Dracula A.D. 1972 was marketed with the taglines “Previous, current or future, by no means depend out the Depend!” and “Welcome again, Drac!” When it was launched within the USA, a quick clip titled Horroritual was performed earlier than the movie through which actor Barry Atwater (the vampire Janos Skorzeny in The Night time Stalker) rises from a coffin and swears all the viewers in as members of the Depend Dracula Society.
Plot:
In 1872, Depend Dracula (Christopher Lee) and his arch-nemesis Lawrence Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) battle on the highest of a runaway coach. The carriage crashes and Dracula is partly impaled by one of many wheels. Within the battle, Van Helsing manages to totally push the wheel into the vampire’s chest, staking him. This achieved, Van Helsing collapses and dies from his personal wounds. At that second a follower of Dracula (Christopher Neame) arrives, collects Dracula’s stays and, just a few days later, buries them close to Van Helsing’s grave at St. Bartolph’s Church…
100 years later, a brand new era of Britons seem who transfer the story alongside: on this case, a gaggle of younger hippies that features Jessica Van Helsing (Stephanie Beacham), granddaughter of Lorrimer Van Helsing (Peter Cushing), an occult skilled and descendant of Dracula’s previous nemesis, and Johnny Alucard (Christopher Neame), who carefully resembles the disciple of Dracula seen in 1872.
Alucard persuades Jessica and the others to attend a black magic ceremony within the now deserted, deconsecrated St Bartolph’s, the place he performs a bloody ritual involving one in every of their group, Laura Bellows (Caroline Munro). Jessica and the others flee in horror, after which Dracula is resurrected…
Evaluations:
“Thought of a low level in Hammer’s roster, Dracula A.D. 1972 is hardly that. Some blame Don Hougton’s script which leaves Dracula confined to a gothic church, or Michael Vicker’s “wah-wah” and horn tinged music rating (which is kind of vigorous and fits the movie effectively), the truth that the film is dated, or the very restricted display screen time Dracula has. However the movie has quite a few issues going for it, and although Lee was disenchanted with having the character in a contemporary setting, he provides it his all…” DVD Drive-In
“One can have a enjoyable time with this film — principally due to its faults. It’s cheese all proper, professionally made cheese that’s a lot better acted and staged than it actually has any proper to be.” Eccentric Cinema
“Lee’s barely in Dracula A.D. 1972. When he does flip up he seems extra grumpy than menacing. Cushing’s as nice as at all times, although – he’s significantly good at speaking lonely previous Lorrimer’s disappointment at not having the ability to join together with his granddaughter. Jessica’s a skinny character with some appalling dialogue (‘Bizarre man, manner out – I imply spooks, hobgoblins, all that jazz’) and will simply have been very annoying, however Beacham managers to work wonders with the character…” Jumble Sale Frenzy!
Offline studying:
The Artwork of Hammer by Marcus Hearn – Purchase from Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com
English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby (2002). Reynolds & Hearn, London, UK
Hammer Glamour by Marcus Hearn – Purchase from Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com
The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn, Alan Barnes – Purchase from Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com
The Hammer Vault by Marcus Hearn – Purchase from Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com
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