31 Horror Reviews #8 Dracula A.D.1972

Groovytimes Friends and Neighbors.  This review is for Dracula A.D. 1972.  A wonderoulsy magnificent film about a bunch of brittish mod-hippie-punk-counter culture types who get involved in the black arts and summon the great Dracula.  Now this is the first of the modern Dracula tales by Hammer.  It stars the greats Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.  A good movie in the making.
So the begining is pretty much the storyline of Hair, well the dinner scene.  Much like any good bunch of teens in the late 60's and early 70's these kids are running around leeching off of the establishment.  What is better than getting free food and trashing some rich guy's house?  Well that gets boring, what with the cops and all coming to bust them, so they head to their club to discuss their next outing.  Why not summon something in a ritual?  So about a third of the way into the movie we discover that these kids are influenced by a creepy dude that apparently serves Dracula.  What is more?  The main girl is Van Helsing's decendant!  Okay now we have something.  Following a series of dull events, soon both Van Helsing and Dracula are back and doing battle.  Dracula's kills are neat but not too over the top.  Hippie kids die.  It is grand.
Watch this one, but only after the rest of the Hammer series, they are not too bad.
I give this one 7/10 since so much of the movie is non-Dracula.
Be excellent to each other,
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