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Dracula is a 1958 British gothic horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same name.The first in the series of Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, the film also features Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, along with Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, and John Van Eyssen.
After Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) despatches Dracula to his grave in 1872, the Dark Lord is raised by Johnny Alucard (Christopher Neame) 100 years later in modern London. Dracula preys on a group of young partygoers that includes the descendant of his nemesis, Jessica Van Helsing (Stephanie Beacham). The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Peter Wilton Cushing was born in Kenley, then a village in the English county of Surrey, on 26 May 1913 to George Edward Cushing (1881–1956) and Nellie Marie (née King) Cushing (1882–1961). [2] His father, a quantity surveyor , was a reserved and uncommunicative man whom Peter said he never got to know very well.
Dracula A.D. 1972 is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Alan Gibson and produced by Hammer Film Productions.It was written by Don Houghton and stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Stephanie Beacham.
It is the eighth film in Hammer's Dracula series, and the seventh and final one to feature Christopher Lee as Dracula. The film was also the third to unite Peter Cushing as Van Helsing with Lee, following Dracula (1958) and Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972).
Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in The Brides of Dracula. Peter Cushing's Doctor Van Helsing in the initial 1958 Hammer Dracula movie and its 1960 sequel The Brides of Dracula differed from the novel's in that the actor portrayed the character as a visibly younger man (as did Christopher Lee as the Count), and also one whose main vocation appears ...
Inspired by Dark Shadows and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973), this film also merges a reincarnation romance with the medieval story of Vlad the Impaler. Nadja: 1994 United States: Michael Almereyda: Elina Löwensohn, Peter Fonda, Karl Geary: A post-modern vampire film set in contemporary New York City with Peter Fonda as both Dracula and Van Helsing.
Stribling is best known for playing the role of Mina Holmwood in the Hammer Films production Dracula (1958), starring Peter Cushing and, in the title role, Christopher Lee. [7] In the film, her character is the victim of a vampire in what has been seen as an erotically charged performance. [8]