An innkeeper's daughter gives him Harker's journal. Dracula, awakened, closes the door to the crypt, trapping Harker.ĭays pass, and Doctor Van Helsing arrives in Klausenburg, looking for Harker. When Harker turns to Dracula's coffin, he finds it empty. Harker foolishly stakes the woman first, a mistake which will cost him his life. He descends into a crypt to find Dracula and the vampire woman resting in their coffins. Harker writes a final entry in his journal and hides the book outside the castle. He realizes he has lost nearly an entire period of daylight. When he awakens in his room in daylight, Harker discovers the bite marks on his neck. Dracula arrives and pulls her away as Harker passes out. She reveals herself to be a vampire and bites his neck. Sometime later, Harker again is confronted by the desperate woman. Alone, Jonathan writes in his diary, revealing his true intentions: he is a vampire hunter and has come to destroy Dracula. Dracula arrives, greets Harker, and guides him to his room. Inside, he is startled by a young woman who claims that she is a prisoner and begs for his help. In 1885, Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle of Count Dracula near Klausenburg to take up his post as librarian. Empire magazine ranked Lee's portrayal as Count Dracula the 7th Greatest Horror Movie Character of All Time. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw Dracula ranked the 65th best British film ever. Christopher Frayling writes, " Dracula introduced fangs, red contact lenses, décolletage, ready-prepared wooden stakes and – in the celebrated credits sequence – blood being spattered from off-screen over the Count's coffin." Lee also introduced a dark, brooding sexuality to the character, with Tim Stanley stating, "Lee's sensuality was subversive in that it hinted that women might quite like having their neck chewed on by a stud". As Count Dracula, Lee fixed the image of the fanged vampire in popular culture. Production began at Bray Studios on 17 November 1957 with an investment of £81,000. original by Universal Pictures, 1931's Dracula. In the United States, the film was retitled Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the U.S. The first in the series of Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, the film also features Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, along with Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, and John Van Eyssen. Dracula is a 1958 British gothic horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same title.
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