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Brides of Dracula [VHS]

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starring: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson, David Peel directed by: Terence Fisher See Larger Image Used Price: $6.47 Collectible Price: $27.02 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302503500 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6302503507 Label: Universal Studios Languages: EnglishUnknown Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Release Date: May 02, 1995 Running Time: 86 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: September 05, 1960 Related Items: Dracula Has Risen From the Grave The Mummy Countess Dracula / The Vampire Lovers The Hound of the Baskervilles The Revenge of Frankenstein see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com: When Christopher Lee declined to reprise his role as Count Dracula in a sequel to the enormously popular The Horror of Dracula, Hammer went another direction and instead followed the investigations of vampire hunter Van Helsing (Peter Cushing). He doesn't actually appear until the second act, after French schoolteacher Marianne (Yvonne Monlaur, a big eyed, thick-lipped, curvy young beauty in the Bardot mold) inadvertently releases Baron Meinster (David Peel), a young disciple of Dracula, from his castle prison in a cursed mountain village. This handsome vampire bites his way through a bevy of glamorous beauties in low-cut blouses and frilly nightgowns as he woos his sexy savior, while Van Helsing relentlessly tracks him back to Marianne. Director Terence Fisher, working from a rather convoluted (and at times incomprehensible) script, makes his mark through a series of marvelous set pieces. In one of the most memorable, a twisted old woman plays midwife to a reborn undead, coaxing her out of the ground as hands push through the earth. In one harrowing moment Van Helsing sears his neck with a branding iron and treats it with holy water after being bitten. Cushing is his usual dashing self, more than making up for the handsome but hardly commanding Peel, and you might recognize Marita Hunt, who plays the withered Baroness, as Miss Haversham from David Lean's classic Great Expectations. --Sean Axmaker Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - My very first Movie I was 8 years when I saw this movie in the theaters, with my mother. It stuck in mind for the next 49 years, and I still love it. Rating: - Girls are a Pain in the Neck! Fun Hammer Classic! Transylvania -- still the home of magic and deviltry. So intones a deep, baritone as we're introduced to our players -- a young lady, Danielle, who is being bounced about in a fast carriage through the forest, stopping off at an inn, yet followed by a black stranger. We meet Baroness Meinster, who it turns out flatters young women and bring them to her son, the Baron, who has a taste for blood. Danielle was on her way to a school for young girls as a student ... Read More Rating: - A Very Well Done Genre Movie I am not a fan of modern horror movies with the emphasis on gore and carnage. But I love this classic film from 1960. BRIDES OF DRACULA is Hammer Films' second vampire movie and is their best. It is even a little better than HORROR OF DRACULA. It is stylish and extremely well acted. Peter Cushing has never been better, and David Peel is perhaps the most memorable screen vampire ever encountered. Martita Hunt is terrific as the vampire's mother. The movie is atmospheric, scary, and sophisticated. It holds ... Read More Rating: - One of Hammer's finest achievements Brides of Dracula was the first of Hammer's many sequels to their breakthrough hit, and it's not just the best of the series but one of their very best pictures. There's no Christopher Lee this time round - in fact, there's no Dracula at all - but there's a lot of imagination at play here in a beautifully plotted story that sees Peter Cushing's Van Helsing coming up against David Peel's Baron Meinster, a follower of Dracula's vampire cult, after Yvonne Monlaur's schoolteacher ill-advisedly releases him from ... Read More Rating: - Great Work!!!! I orderd a vhs tape by mistake, so i had to cancel my order, and i was VERY VERY VERY PLEASED quickly i was contacted about my refund thanks guys and keep up the goooood wrk. see more

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