I have to admit that the above dialogue, screamed out by Johnny Alucard during the Satanic ceremony, is my all-time favourite bad line. The music in question is a sort of cacophony of sound a-la the BBC's electronic workshop. Perhaps the script writer intended Led Zeppelin to be played, or Bing Crosby. But either way they wouldn't have been as unintentionally funny as this.
Get with it Daddyos! This is one of the all time stinkers in Galactic History and fantastically enjoyable for all that. It has Dracula (Christopher "I'm not Dracula" Lee) brought back to life in 1972, although as he never leaves the Church where he's resurrected it might as well have been 2972, and fighting his old nemesis Peter Cushing's Lorrimer Van Helsing. Not the one from 1872 but his great grandson, though they both look like Peter Cushing to me. The 1872 version has longer sideburns. Nameing the new Van after a Leeds United midfielder was a cunning move, if you ask me.
We also have the gorgeous Stephanie Beacham as Van Helsing's grand-daughter. Even Da Cush can't keep his hands off her boobs when he puts her to bed. The really up to date Chelsea set of teens (who all look about 35, including a Richard O'Sullivan clone in a monk's habit who deserves a slow and painful death), obviously stepped into Dr. Who's Tardis in 1962 with tickets for the Jazz festival intact and arrived in the trendy 70s.
See also Ed Woodian groovy dialogue "It was a tired scene, Joe." "A Black Mass? Well, really!" "You know what Laura's like when she's smashed," Whoa - drug reference - right on, kids! The hilarious Satanic ceremony in which Drac is resurrected, Lee looking like he wants to disembowel his agent, has it's fair share of terrible dialogue "By the six thousand terrors of Hell" - Or was it seven thousand. Damn can never remember! And there's more! Cushing dispatching Johnny Alucard with running water, ie, turning the shower on, and walking past West Ham Graffito (I'm sure Stoker would have approved of this) on his way to confront Dracula who has kidnapped his Grand-daughter. We also get The London Steak House in the credits, very suitable for a Gothic atmosphere and some refugees from The Sweeney cops, with their rather own brand of special dialogue. I leave you to discover it for yourselves. There's also a band in it called Stoneground, a sort of knock off T-Rex with female backing vocalists. I assume the singer's mum actually bought their records...
Dracula '72 is the sort of film made by 50-year-olds for a teenage audience and getting it spectacularly wrong in every respect. That's why it's so enjoyable! Cushing and Lee admirably play it absolutely straight. It's a wild ride, Joe, and you betta get off here if ya can't dig the scene, man!
Get with it Daddyos! This is one of the all time stinkers in Galactic History and fantastically enjoyable for all that. It has Dracula (Christopher "I'm not Dracula" Lee) brought back to life in 1972, although as he never leaves the Church where he's resurrected it might as well have been 2972, and fighting his old nemesis Peter Cushing's Lorrimer Van Helsing. Not the one from 1872 but his great grandson, though they both look like Peter Cushing to me. The 1872 version has longer sideburns. Nameing the new Van after a Leeds United midfielder was a cunning move, if you ask me.
We also have the gorgeous Stephanie Beacham as Van Helsing's grand-daughter. Even Da Cush can't keep his hands off her boobs when he puts her to bed. The really up to date Chelsea set of teens (who all look about 35, including a Richard O'Sullivan clone in a monk's habit who deserves a slow and painful death), obviously stepped into Dr. Who's Tardis in 1962 with tickets for the Jazz festival intact and arrived in the trendy 70s.
See also Ed Woodian groovy dialogue "It was a tired scene, Joe." "A Black Mass? Well, really!" "You know what Laura's like when she's smashed," Whoa - drug reference - right on, kids! The hilarious Satanic ceremony in which Drac is resurrected, Lee looking like he wants to disembowel his agent, has it's fair share of terrible dialogue "By the six thousand terrors of Hell" - Or was it seven thousand. Damn can never remember! And there's more! Cushing dispatching Johnny Alucard with running water, ie, turning the shower on, and walking past West Ham Graffito (I'm sure Stoker would have approved of this) on his way to confront Dracula who has kidnapped his Grand-daughter. We also get The London Steak House in the credits, very suitable for a Gothic atmosphere and some refugees from The Sweeney cops, with their rather own brand of special dialogue. I leave you to discover it for yourselves. There's also a band in it called Stoneground, a sort of knock off T-Rex with female backing vocalists. I assume the singer's mum actually bought their records...
Dracula '72 is the sort of film made by 50-year-olds for a teenage audience and getting it spectacularly wrong in every respect. That's why it's so enjoyable! Cushing and Lee admirably play it absolutely straight. It's a wild ride, Joe, and you betta get off here if ya can't dig the scene, man!