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Michael Smith rated Horror of Dracula ★★★★½

Horror of Dracula 1958

★★★★½

Terence Fisher’s movie, while retaining the novel’s 19th century setting, clearly uses Bram Stoker’s story as a means of commenting on the still-stifling social mores of post-war Britain. The filmmakers certainly knew what they were doing when they cast the sensual and charismatic Lee as Dracula and the stuffier, more reactionary-seeming Cushing as Van Helsing.

Full review at my blog: whitecitycinema.com/2013/05/06/blu-hammer/

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