Dracula - Prince des ténèbres

Titre original : Dracula, Prince of Darkness

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Dracula est ressuscité et s'en prend à quatre visiteurs sans méfiance de son château.Dracula est ressuscité et s'en prend à quatre visiteurs sans méfiance de son château.Dracula est ressuscité et s'en prend à quatre visiteurs sans méfiance de son château.

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Rôles principaux24

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Christopher Lee

Dracula

Barbara Shelley

Helen

Andrew Keir

Father Sandor

Francis Matthews

Charles

Suzan Farmer

Diana

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell

Alan
(as Charles Tingwell)

Thorley Walters

Ludwig

Philip Latham

Klove

Walter Brown

Brother Mark

George Woodbridge

Landlord

Jack Lambert

Brother Peter

Philip Ray

Priest

Joyce Hemson

Mother

John Maxim

Coach Driver

Peter Cushing

Doctor Van Helsing
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Alistair Dick

Monk
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Lee Fenton

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George Holdcroft

Monk
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Réalisation
- Terence Fisher
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Enjoyable albeit shallow revisit to Transylvania.

Dracula (Christopher Lee) rides again in yet another Hammer entry in the Dracula franchise. This film is enjoyable horror hokum, but it has an awfully shallow story, fleshed out with a slow opening stretch and some amusing vampire lore in between the sporadic vampire attacks.

Four British travellers are journeying through the Carpathian Alps in the 1800s. They are repeatedly cautioned to steer clear of Carlsbad Castle but, being typically stuffy and stubborn, they end up going there anyway. The castle is deserted apart from a rather zombified manservant. During the night, one of the travellers is slain by the manservant, and his blood is used to resurrect the long-dead Count Dracula. Time for another bout of blood-sucking mayhem....

Christopher Lee has a small role this time around, but gets across a good performance due to his commanding presence in the title role. Andrew Keir is also good as a priest-cum-vampire-slayer, though he has to overcome some dumb dialogue. The slow build-up is rather damaging, as it generates more tedium than chills. The opportunities for real terror are somewhat fudged too, since most would-be "shock" moments are telegraphed too far in advance. However, Hammer buffs and vampire addicts will doubtless feel more than satisfied.

Anecdotes
In the scene where Dracula is being "resurrected" from a coffin into which his ashes have been spread, from blood dripping down from a poor victim (provided by Klove) Dracula is made to "manifest himself" over a period of about a minute. This was achieved by overlapping "dissolves" of a series of twelve locked-down camera shots, involving first the ashes, then a skeleton, then some body-fat on the skeleton, et cetera, along with swirling mist, until we finally perceive the full form of Dracula. He doesn't appear fully dressed as is usually the case. The shot moves to outside the coffin and a bare arm reaches out. The vampire's clothes were seen in earlier scenes awaiting his return.

Gaffes
At the beginning of the film, the dead girl being carried in the funeral procession is breathing heavily.

Citations
Alan Kent: You forget about all of this in the morning, you'll see.
Helen Kent: There'll be no morning for us.

Versions alternatives
The UK cinema version was cut by the BBFC with edits to blood flows during the resurrection scene, a closeup shot of Helen's staking, and a shortening of the seduction scene where Dracula pulls a hypnotized Diana towards his chest wound. Video releases featured the cut cinema print though all widescreen DVD releases feature the fully uncut version.