Stars: William Smith, Michael Pataki, Kitty Vallacher

Director: John Hayes

Summary: On a dark and foggy night, an amorous couple are alone in a graveyard... until a vampire emerges from his tomb with a hankering for some young blood!

A vampire awakens from a long sleep to attack a couple making love in a graveyard. He then rapes the woman, who later gives birth to his son. The newborn infant will only drink blood from his mother's breast.

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It took a long time for Hammer's 1958 version of Draculato turn into a franchise, and it was ten years before Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, the third film in the series, continued where Dracula--Prince of Darkness(1965) left off. The vampire count is accidentally resurrected by the blood of a priest when Monsignor Muller (the excellent Rupert Davies replacing Peter Cushing, whose Professor Van Helsing is absent) exorcises Castle Dracula. The Lord of the Undead soon has the priest under his power, and sets about claiming the Monsignor's niece Maria (Veronica Carlson) as his bride. Maria is in love with Paul (Barry Andrews), more a 60's English "angry young man" than a Victorian hero, yet only he can save the day, the film contrasting his atheism against much Catholicism. Working as a taut, Gothic thriller, the intensity is maintained to a large degree by James Barnard's excellent score and, of course, by Christopher Lee's magnetic interpretation of Count Dracula. The eroticism is stronger than in previous Hammer Draculas, the palpably electric blood-lust marking the movie as a high-point before the series' gradual decline, beginning with Taste the Blood of Dracula(1970). --Gary S. Dalkin

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 0
Special Features:	Trailer, Picture Gallery
Year:	1973
Release Date:	March 1, 2004
Runtime:	91 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	V S C 023
Keywords:	General, Grave, Vampire, Horror, Occult, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult