I love all of the Hammer films but I just don't find this one particularly scary or entertaining. I have tried watching it twice and both times I get bored about 30 minutes in. Not sure why. For some reason I find the Hammer films like Horror of Dracula or Dracula: Prince of Darkness just have much better pacing and are far scarier. Anyway, I don't know if anyone agrees with me, but either way just putting it out there.
shareIt's a good film, but I do find it overrated. It doesn't pack the same punch as Dracula or many of the later Hammer horrors.
I think the reason it's rated so highly is because it's so pioneering in its use of colour, gore, sex, etc, in the Gothic horror context. It's wonderful in many ways, but it's not up there with the horror masterpieces.
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I would say this better than 'Horror Of Dracula'. HOD is a unique, pioneering movie in its own right (and it's got a hell of a climax!), but this one is better written, characters are more interesting and the pacing is better.
shareIt's one you have to be in the proper mood to watch. It's not a movie I could just sit there and watch any time, any day. I like it, but I don't think I'd call it one of my favorites. Horror of Dracula is better.
I've been waiting for you, Ben.
Saw this for the first time last night. Was a bit disappointed.
Cushing was superb. Lee and the creature make up was fine too but a lot of it felt like it was shot in the thirties, not in the late fifties. And I don't mean in an homage to Universal's thirties films kind of way.
Glasgow's FOREMOST authority Italics = irony. Infer the opposite please.
Agreed. This one just doesn't do it for me. I can't quite explain why, but I just don't find it holds up well like the other Hammer films.
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