The Brides of Dracula Review

Review of The Brides of Dracula (1960) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

>run program: hooptober¹⁰.exe >DAY 14... >17 DAYS REMAIN... >TITLE 8 OF 31... Not at all what I was expecting, and surprisingly transcendent of what Hammer had been up to with its FRANKENSTEIN sequels. The way the chained Baron pleads to be set free and his mother's aloof acknowledgement of him is so ideally Gothic its surprising I haven't read this somewhere before. Even when the vampire is out and about it feels fresh and much different than what we've seen before, giving Van Helsing a new case like he was the private eye in a Raymond Chandler novel but with these creatures of the night instead. Cushing of course crushes every moment he gets. This is now my favorite of Hammer's vampire films.