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Everyone's favourite blood-sucker is back in this sequel to 'Taste the Blood of Dracula' (1969). After a philandering young artist goes missing, his brother Simon (Dennis Waterman) and girlfriend Sarah (Jenny Hanley) discover that he was last seen heading for Castle Dracula. When they investigate they are greeted by the Count (Christopher Lee) and made welcome for the night. However, Dracula's manservant, Klove (Patrick Troughton), warns Peter to get Sarah away from his master before something terrible happens to her.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: One of a handful of Hammer "Dracula" films starring Christopher Lee, The Scars of Dracula begins as Count Dracula (Lee) rises from the grave once again. Buckets of blood and vats of violence will delight fans of horror. A young man and his girlfriend find themselves in Dracula's castle where Dracula sinks his teeth into five victims and tortures a servant in a graphically violent scene. A priest is attacked by a bat and meets his maker much earlier than anticipated. Naturally, the girl is soon coveted by Dracula, and the heroic young man must come to her rescue. There are typical scenes of religious defilement, arson, and the requisite wooden cross that wards off the evil bloodsucker. Dracula meets his fiery demise (yeah, right) when the foreboding castle is torched. No matter how he meets his end, rest assured Dracula will rise once again from any grave he finds himself in at the end of every film. ...Scars of Dracula
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By G. Francis
Format:VHS Tape
Well, after several previous outings as the Count, Lee again resumes his role in this installment, 'The Scars of Dracula', the last of the 'Gothic' Dracula films in which he would star, if I'm correct.
Though a fairly lenient fan of the Dracula genre, I did find unforgivable problems with this picture - for one, I could never take the giant rubber bat seriously; secondly, the plot seemed almost spoof-like, and again lowered the tone, and thirdly, there were some appalling characters which didn't make the picture feel like a traditional Hammer horror at all - namely the stupid pair of Policemen.
On the up side, there's, of course, the fantastic Christopher Lee, who gets plenty of screen time, and plenty more lines than usual. His presence is stunning, although I found Dracula's death scene a little over-rated. Most of the actors are fairly good, and most of the settings are decent enough.
If you want a good Hammer horror with the legendary Mr.Lee as Dracula, I recommend any of this film's predacessors, and even Dracula AD 1972 - unfortunately, this one is one of my least favourites of the Dracula franchise starring Mr.Lee. Just one too many flaws for my liking.
But, either way, you can't go wrong with Christopher Lee!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Though not considered one of the best by Hammer fans, Scars of Dracula is still an enjoyable vampire film. It is dark and violent and at times twisted. Lee himself has said on more than one occasion that this was his least favorite in the series, because of the violent nature of the film, and the acts of torture his character was directed to perform. Yet, it is still very much the Hammer-style film, with luscious, colorful sets, ghothic atmoshere, and great performances by all the actors involved. And in a way, Lee's Dracula here is more frightening than some of his other incarnations, because of his twisted, satanic ways. He gives a feeling that Dracula could indeed originate from the lower regions of hell.
It would've been a better film with the reappearance of a Van Helsing type vampire hunter, like Cushing, or Andrew Keir (Dracula: Prince of Darkness), as the kill-scene is my least favorite of all the Lee/Dracula films. But the DVD itself is beautiful, the picture quality near perfect, the sound clear and crisp. And it is a well put together film.
The extras from Anchorbay, as usual, are far superior to anything anyone else (with the exception of Criterion, perhaps) includes with their DVDs. There's an audio commentary with Lee and director Roy Ward Baker. You get trailers, a poster gallery, and with the limited edition two disc set, you also get a neat and personal interview with Lee called "The Many Faces of Christopher Lee", and two totally cool music videos that Lee participated in. Anchorbay, as always, has treated the Hammer Horror fan with an exceptionally good product.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By LXIX
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Format:DVD
This film isn't the best of the Dracula movies by any means, but if you like this genre then you'll find it all mildly amusing.
A young Dennis Waterman (complete with uncharacteristic posh accent) goes in search of his brother who is on the run due to a false allegation of rape from the local burgermeister's daughter. As expected, all roads lead to Dracula's large gaffe. The body count is rather high here (five plus a churchload of villagers) and there's plenty of fangs on display.
Interestingly, Dracula meets a rather unusual end in this one - and 'dies' like many golfers have.
Don't expect great special effects - this is 1970 and low budget (you'll particularly notice this when it comes to the bats), but overall this is a watchable 90 minute film straight off the Hammer press.
A young Dennis Waterman (complete with uncharacteristic posh accent) goes in search of his brother who is on the run due to a false allegation of rape from the local burgermeister's daughter. As expected, all roads lead to Dracula's large gaffe. The body count is rather high here (five plus a churchload of villagers) and there's plenty of fangs on display.
Interestingly, Dracula meets a rather unusual end in this one - and 'dies' like many golfers have.
Don't expect great special effects - this is 1970 and low budget (you'll particularly notice this when it comes to the bats), but overall this is a watchable 90 minute film straight off the Hammer press.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The budgets were hitting rock bottom and the formula getting tired by the time Hammer persuaded Christopher Lee to don the cape yet again for 1970's Scars of Dracula, their second Dracula outing of the year after the superior Taste the Blood of Dracula. Not particularly bad though awfully overfamiliar, this has the feel of everyone clocking on to work at a treadmill as yet another unwary (and in this case accidental) traveller finds himself shunned by tight-lipped superstitious locals (well, Michael Ripper and a couple of extras) and soon regretting taking advantage of the Count's hospitality in the first half while in the second half his brother (a young and miscast Dennis Waterman) and romantic interest Jenny Hanley go through much of the same routine in the second as they go in search of him. There's an effectively nasty surprise waiting for the villagers in the church after their early attempt to burn the Count out of house and home and there's an engagingly matter of fact just-another-day-at-work sequence where Patrick Troughton's servant discards the remnants of one of his master's unwanted brides with a hacksaw and an acid bath but this is more notable for upping the violence than improving the quality.
Unlike the US Anchor Bay DVD, this UK release only offers the trailer as an extra.
Unlike the US Anchor Bay DVD, this UK release only offers the trailer as an extra.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:VHS Tape
How to explain "Scars of Dracula"? This 1970 film directed by Roy Ward Baker was made by Hammer Studios and stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, but has nothing to do with the previous films in the series. When last we saw the count at the end of "Taste the Blood of Dracula" his ashes where in Victorian London. Now the ashes are near his castle in Transylvania and the time appears to be about a century earlier. Go figure. As soon as the count is restored when a giant bat spews blood on his ashes, you know this film is in trouble. We have the villagers going to burn down the castle while Dracula sends a horde of vampire bats to rip their wives and children apart. Years later the movie's main trio of victims arrive upon the scene: good guy Simon Carlson (Dennis Waterman) and charming rogue Paul Carlson (Christopher Matthews) are both in love with Sarah Fransen (Jenny Hanley). Soon not only the Count but his hunchbacked servant Klove (Patrick Troughton) are after the lovely Sarah as well. This time around Dracula is more into physical torture than before and while the eroticism that characterized Hammer's vampire films at this time is present the emphasis is much more on supposedly gory special effects. However, in the end there is yet another totally new way of disposing of Dracula. While I applaud the fact that the script gives Dracula actual lines and gets away from the animalistic version of the Count we get in several Hammer films, there is nothing new here worth pursuing. Even the production values, something of a hallmark with Hammer's films, are notably lacking. Even the title, "Scars of Dracula," is really lame. Fans of Hammer/Dracula/Lee will only watch this one out of a need for a sense of completeness.
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This was a gift. It turned up promptly in excellent condition. It is a DVD thus, does what it is made to do.
Published 2 months ago by Mr John Gardiner
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It's not awful
Dracula 5 isn't the best of the series but it does look good (apart from the fake blood-dribbling bat at the start) and Patrick Troughton's in it. Read more
Published 2 months ago by DJ
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Brilliant!!!
This is a top film and one the best in the series along with dracula , dracula has risen from the grave & taste the blood of dracula true classics from Hammer!!!
Published 2 months ago by SHAUN
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Scars Of Dracula
Always love a good Dracula Film especially during the dark winter nights. Another great film by Hammer. Would recommend to Family and freinds.
Published 5 months ago by Pauline Phillips
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Scars Of Indecisive Choice
Now only having watch this movie today i can finally say that i've never really a seen a movie this quite complex, and my reasons for saying such thing's is simple this movie... Read more
Published 7 months ago by HereWeGo
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one of hammer's worst dracula offerings.
when i watch "scars of dracula," i've always struggled to find something remotely positive to say in the film's favour. Read more
Published 9 months ago by jeremiah harbottle
3.0 out of 5 stars
dont expect much
this is a candidate for worst dracula film but it is the goriest.yes its bloody,bloody awful the actings poor the story does not follow on from the last movie and it has rubber... Read more
Published 15 months ago by jed
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Hammer gone to seed
I really like Hammer films. I wanted to like this, since seeing it in my youth i recall variable bloody portions of it. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Zaroff
3.0 out of 5 stars
The devil has won.
A village girl found murdered, could it be that Dracula is back? Playboy Paul Carlson is about to find out. Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2011 by Spike Owen
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ONE OF THE BEST
SCARS OF DRACULA is one of my favorites in the series. OK the violence increases a bit compared to the other movies, still it is nothing in comparison with today's gorefests. Read more
Published on 2 July 2010 by Sick-o
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