Slappy McGee’s review published on Letterboxd:
HOOP-X #31 of CINEMONSTER's Hooptober X: Hooptober, Hooptober Let Satan Come Over
My Fully Weird List and Complete Set of Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee's Hoop-Tober 10.0 List.
***************
Okay, is nobody gonna talk about how this movie poster features a green-tinted NICOLAS CAGE?
I know the artist was trying to make it Christopher Lee, all green-faced, bloody-mouthed and with lots of tiny little scars (none of which are in the movie, btw - where all the scars at, y'all?)... but dude straight up created a direct time capsule to the CAGE-STER!
Alright, so poster aside ... and NO scars on Dracula aside (...hey, maybe they were EMOTIONAL scars!?!...) -- this movie was pretty danged good.
Love me some Christopher Lee and he's so good as the Count. A perfect blend of elegant and dashing mixed with brutal and evil.
In this one, he is particularly brutal. Drac is stabbing people with knives, ripping out blood from their necks, hanging people on meathooks... dude ain't playin'.
Loved all of that combined with the Hammer sense of Gothic Horror. It just works really, really well. Great flick.