Rasputin: The Mad Monk Rasputin: The Mad Monk

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Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his satanic power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left... to destroy him before he destroys them all.

Christopher Lee Barbara Shelley Richard Pasco Francis Matthews Suzan Farmer Dinsdale Landen Renée Asherson Derek Francis Joss Ackland Michael Ripper Prudence Hyman Alan Tilvern

Hammer Film Productions Seven Arts Productions

drama horror foreign

91 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Grimbo

    Review by Grimbo ★★★

    Christoper Lee creates the character that Brian Blessed made into his real life persona, as the loud, shouty, beardy and OTT Rasputin.

    He is the mad monk with mystical powers to heal and he uses this to become a big mover in society, fucking over everyone in his way.

  • Luke Pauli

    Review by Luke Pauli ★★★½

    Christopher Lee as Rasputin, drinking, fucking and dancing (with the occasional spot of healing) his way around Russia like a rogue Jesus Christ? Yes please! He's harder to kill than The Terminator and Jason Voorhees combined too. Good, camp fun from Hammer Studios.

  • craig ennis

    Review by craig ennis ★★

    As a life long hammer fan that hadn’t seen this particular offering I must say I was slightly disappointed. Christopher Lee is great, but the story far too slight. Joss Aklund is in it, which to me is a bonus.

  • Tom Prankerd

    Review by Tom Prankerd ★★½

    Hammer's film about Grigori Rasputin junks historical facts with joyful abandon, giving the infamous monk a bunch of supernatural abilities, playing up his evil side to 11. Christopher Lee has the time of his life but the rest of it is very stagey and melodramatic, notably with very little sense of the thing being set in Tsarist Russia rather than Hammer's staple Transylvanian villages.

  • Ash Boomstick

    Review by Ash Boomstick ★★★★ 1

    This is lots of fun for one reason, Christopher Lee. I do not believe that any of the history is correct, but no one cares because Lee becomes Rasputin or is that Rasputin becomes Lee. This film is just a vehicle for Lee to Showboat his charisma and personality. A must for all Hammer Horror fans.

  • TheZodiac

    Review by TheZodiac ★★½

    The re-release of Hammer keeps coming and this is fun just to see Christopher Lee performance.

  • David Merryweather

    Review by David Merryweather ★★★★

    Of all the love machines Russia has produced, for me the greatest has to be Rasputin. And, in Hammer's typically ripe take, an imperious Christopher Lee in a stick-on beard is the carousing, indomitable mystic faith-healer who uses his powers to gain influence with the Russian Royal Family.

    Everywhere you look, you'll see this film shrugged off as one of Hammer's lesser efforts, and although it's clearly no classic in the artistic sense, I thought it to be one of the most flat out enjoyable Hammer films I've seen.
    It is somewhat cheaply thrown together; filmed back-to-back with Dracula: Prince of Darkness on exactly the same sets with the same actors and crew. But, blimey, all stops are pulled and…

  • Black Gloves

    Review by Black Gloves ★★★★

    My review of the UK Blu-ray at Horrorview: www.horrorview.com/movie-reviews/rasputin-the-mad-monk

  • David Flint

    Review by David Flint ★★★

    www.strangethingsarehappening.com/rasputin.html