Label: Showbox Home Entertainment
Release date: October 22 2007
Certificate: 12
Running time: 82m
Price: £12.99
Director: Terence Fisher
Stars: Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Marie Devereux,
Freda Jackson
HAMMER FILMS' CLASSIC SEQUEL TO ‘DRACULA' NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN THE UK
Previously (and inexplicably!) unavailable on any format in the UK, one of Hammer's most impressive and highly regarded films, the superlative gothic chiller THE BRIDES OF DRACULA finally comes to DVD on 15th October 2007, courtesy of Showbox Home Entertainment. The last time the film passed before the BBFC was upon its cinema release in 1960, when it was required to be cut.
Two years after the huge international box office success of 1958's DRACULA, that film's key creative personnel, including director Terence Fisher (DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THE GORGON, THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, THE MUMMY), screenwriter Jimmy Sangster (DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN), producer Anthony Hinds (THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN) and star Peter Cushing, were reunited for the superlative sequel, THE BRIDES OF DRACULA.
The nineteenth century is drawing to close, and although the evil lord of the vampires, Count Dracula, may be dead, throughout Transylvania several of his followers live on, spreading their corruption far and wide. One such disciple is a mysterious Baron who has been cheating death by feeding on the blood of the living…
When Marianne Danielle, a beautiful schoolteacher from Paris, arrives in Transylvania to take up at teaching position at the prestigious Badstein Girls' Academy, she is persuaded to take up lodgings at the dilapidated castle of Baroness Meinster, an embittered semi-recluse attended to by a strange woman-servant, Greta. On her first night's stay, Marianne discovers a handsome young man imprisoned in a remote wing of the building and learns from the Baroness that he is her mentally disturbed son. Sympathising with the Baron's plight, Marianne frees him from his shackles and in doing so unwittingly unleashes a malevolent force of damnation upon the local townsfolk and particularly the young women boarding in the academy. The only hope for the people of the town lies with Dr. Van Helsing, the man responsible for the death of Dracula, who has been summoned by a local priest to investigate reports of vampirism in the district.
A true Hammer classic that sees Peter Cushing reprising the role of Van Helsing, THE BRIDES OF DRACULA also stars Martita Hunt (BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING),Yvonne Monlaur (CIRCUS OF HORRORS), Freda Jackson (THE VALLEY OF GWANGI, DIE MONSTER DIE), Marie Devereux (Sam Fuller's NAKED KISS and SHOCK CORRIDOR) and David Peel (THEY WHO DARE) who, in the role of Baron Meinster, proved to be one of the most memorable and eerily charismatic vampires ever to grace the screen.
THE BRIDES OF DRACULA (cert. 12) will be released on DVD by Showbox Home Entertainment on 15th October 2007. Features include trailers, photo gallery and chapter selection.
Features:
Trailers
Photo Gallery
