Review – Dracula, Prince of Darkness

This is Hammer’s follow-up to the success the studio found with Christopher Lee’s first portrayal of the vampire world’s biggest celebrity. Apparently being done to sun-fried dust by Dr. Van Helsing in the first one doesn’t take as much out of a guy as one might expect, because here he is again. This time around he’s about the business of luring British tourists to his mountain stronghold and then dispatching them one by one in a variety of uninteresting manners. Lee does his usual journeyman’s job as the title character, but otherwise this isn’t exactly Hammer’s finest moment. See if desperate