31 Days of Dracula- Day 29: The Horror or Dracula

I had so many more movies I wanted to hit but all of a sudden, we've got three days to go before October is over.  It's always been a short month for me and this is been an especially short one.

But I knew I had to do a couple of Hammer movies before it was over, because hey, Christopher Lee.

In the UK, it was simply called Dracula.  In the United States, it was called The Horror of Dracula.

Either way, it was brilliant.

Unlike the Universal film, which was based on a stage play based on Bram Stoker's novel, Hammer went straight to the novel... and started cutting.

It's still the same basic story, Van Helsing, Mina, Harker, Dracula- this time it's in Technicolor.

Vivid, red, Technicolor.

And there's liberties- the entire story is set on the European continent; there's no voyage to England here. Relationships are different. Harker is engaged to Lucy, Lucy is Holmwood's sister, Mina is Holmwood's wife. Van Helsing is still Van Helsing and Dracula is still Dracula.

But what a Dracula this is. While Lugosi was Eurosuave, Christopher Lee's Dracula was upperclass-cruel-sexy- playing the Count ten times in his career.