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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kung Fu Biting,
By Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett "vampire lover" (Dracula's Crypt) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Legend of The 7 Golden Vampires [DVD] [1973] (DVD)
An incredible fusion of kung fu and vampire mythology which was Hammer films penultimate full length horror. There are some striking set pieces such as the the undead army rising from the earth and hobbling across the ground, and really this is one of Hammers most visually arresting films. Peter Cushing brings his usual dignity to the role of Van Helsing and the film moves at a rapid pace. I have read a few snotty reviews of this film in the past, entirely unjustified.
An excellent film
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Hammer's last stab at Dracula,
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This review is from: The Legend of The 7 Golden Vampires [DVD] [1973] (DVD)
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is a less than successful hybrid, combining Hammer horror and chop socky movie as Dracula, for reasons never really explained, possesses the body of a Chinese bad guy to control six golden vampires while Van Helsing, on a far from successful Chinese lecture tour, finds himself teaming up with seven brothers and their one sister to rid a remote Chinese village of yada yada yada.. "Black belt against black magic" screams the trailer, and while it's not as poor as I recalled, the only things going for it are a few okay action scenes and a magnificent display of bosom heaving from Julie Ege in one particularly memorable shot. Unlike the extras-packed US Anchor Bay release, this does not include the butchered and often very bizarrely re-edited US version The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula (which sounds like a bad Howard Keel musical) but does offer an uncut anamorphic transfer of the longer version, with 12 seconds of previous BBFC cuts waived for this release.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The infamous guilty pleasure Kung Fu flick from Hammer,
By A Customer
This review is from: Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires [VHS] [1974] (VHS Tape)
In the old days there was "Billy the Kid Meets Dracula," but for our generation it was "Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires," or, as it was released in the U.S. (with severe cuts) "The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula." This Hammer film has essentially nothing to do with any of the other Dracula or vampire movies produced by the studio, although Peter Cushing is back once again as Professor Van Helsing. What it does have to do with is the kung-fu craze sparked by all those fun Bruce Lee movies and the fact that Far Eastern audiences had been eating up Hammer's movies for years. Thus we have this collaboration between Hammer and the Shaw Brothers of Hong Kong (insert gong sound here). It seems that back in 1804 a Chinese priest named Kah made his way to the castle of Dracula (John Forbes-Robertson this time around), to ask the Count to revive the seven vampires of his cult back in China. Dracula agrees and then we jump ahead a century to find Van Helsing lecturing on vampires in Chungking. While relating the legend of the seven golden vampires (so named becomes masks of beaten gold hide their ugly faces), he meets with Hsi Ching (David Chiang), who knows of the Professor's winning streak against Dracula and begs him to help save his village from the vampires. Ching has six brothers (hence the American title) and a sister, who are all martial arts experts. There is a bit more exposition, and then we get down to some serious fighting between the vampires and the brothers Ching. Actually, for its time, the martial arts sequences are above average. Cushing has his part nailed, as well he should by this point in his career, and Chiang is a passable Lee-clone. This one is fun, a classic example of how crazy ideas can work in the wacky world of the movies. Check this one out.
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