Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

1968

92 Min

Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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CAST Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson, Barbara Ewing, Barry Andrews, Ewan Hooper, Marion Mathie, Michael Ripper, John D. Collins, George A. Cooper, Christopher Cunningham, Norman Bacon

It appears that Dracula (Christopher Lee) is on the prowl again after a young girl is found dead — her neck marked by fangs — in a small town’s church. Though he’s been believed dead for a while, the people of the town instantly finger the vicious vampire. Hoping to get rid of the blood-sucking menace, the Monsignor (Rupert Davies) must perform a ritual at Dracula’s castle … but will it stop Dracula before he preys on his next victim?

Director

Freddie Francis

A clapper boy in British films while a teenager, Freddie Francis became a camera assistant and in the mid-1950s was an operator for Oswald Morris, the director of photography on John Huston’s Moulin Rouge (1953) and Beat the Devil (1954); he also directed second-unit footage for Huston’s Moby Dick (1956). As a director of photography himself, Francis worked for directors Karel Reisz (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1961, Night Must Fall (1964), Jack Cardiff (Sons and Lovers), and fellow Huston-alumnus Jack Clayton (Room at the Top (1959), The Innocents).

In the early 1960s he began directing but still occasionally shot films for such directors as Reisz and David Lynch. As a director, Francis has specialized in horror films, notably at Hammer, but also for producers Max J. Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky and the anthology films Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), Torture Garden, and Tales from the Crypt (1972). —allmovie guide

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msmichel

26Apr12

Third film in the Hammer series features another grand turn by Christopher Lee with good support from Rupert Davies as the Monsignor. Francis certainly has the eye for gothic atmosphere but perhaps should have spent a little more time on an actual story for this entry. Not up to par with first two entries but certainly better than some that would follow. Grand finish to Stoker's creation in this round.