Dracula (1974)

[Pieter V]

Price: 15.50 pounds
Release date: December 14th, 2015
Amazon.co.uk

Academy Award® winner* Jack Palance stars in this terrifying adaptation of Bram Stoker s classic vampire legend written for the screen by sci-fi/horror master Richard Matheson and produced by the legendary Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows). Palance is Count Dracula, whose centuries-old existence is threatened after he attacks the lovely Lucy Westenra (Fiona Lewis) and her fiancé (Simon Ward, The Tudors) calls in famed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing (Nigel Davenport) to investigate. Filmed on location in England and Yugoslavia, DAN CURTIS DRACULA has been transferred and restored in 2K High Definition from the original 35mm camera negative and presented here on Blu-Ray for the first time!

[oddbox83]

It'll be the same master already released in France and the US. I have the US disc, and it's very nice.

It's a sadly overlooked but extremely important Dracula adaptation in that it fuses Stoker's original story and Dan Curtis' and Sam Hall's romantic, reluctant vampire mythology created for their Dark Shadows soap opera and has informed the genre since. Great score by Bob Cobert too.

[Partyslammer]

Originally Posted by oddbox83

It'll be the same master already released in France and the US. I have the US disc, and it's very nice.

It's a sadly overlooked but extremely important Dracula adaptation in that it fuses Stoker's original story and Dan Curtis' and Sam Hall's romantic, reluctant vampire mythology created for their Dark Shadows soap opera and has informed the genre since. Great score by Bob Cobert too.

It also includes a few seconds of gore (mostly a scene of blood pouring from Dracula's mouth) never included in any tv broadcast.

[Dickieduvet]

I've got the German edition which has some god awful recent vampire flick attached as an extra. The Dan Curtis adaptation is excellent and worth a watch to see Palance over acting into oblivion.