Directed by:
Terence FisherScreenplay:
Jimmy SangsterCinematography:
Michael ReedComposer:
James BernardCast:
Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews, Suzan Farmer, Thorley Walters, Philip Latham, Peter Cushing (a.f.), Fred Wood (more)Plots(1)
A young party traveling to the Carpathian Mountains receives a strange warning from Father Sandor, the Abbot of Kleinburg, telling them not to proceed with their plans. Despite his advice, the Kents continue but are prematurely abandoned in a forest by their coachman, who refuses to continue after dark. Finally, their luck is changing it seems, when another mysterious black coach appears and delivers them to an enormous, eerie castle where they are offered the hospitality of Count Dracula... (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews (1)
Despite some positives, I don't feel that the horror film Dracula: Prince of Darkness stands out. Within the Dracula mythology, it's a relatively standard film that doesn't offer any fundamentally new perspective but simply deals with the presence of a vampire who should be defeated, or perhaps there's even a female vampire who needs to be dispatched from the world. Too bad, maybe more could have been made of it. On the other hand, compared to contemporary Dracula films, it's still pretty good.
()