Ted Danson plays a computer genius who gets involved in the theft of an important N.A.S.A. computer, then thrust into the world of espionage with Sir Christopher Lee.

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In early 2023, a Madrid film archivist made a startling discovery: the uncut camera negative of COUNT DRACULA, in pristine condition and untouched for over 50 years. This gothic masterpiece from writer/director Jess Franco can now be experienced like never before, from its brilliant performances by Christopher Lee as the Count, Herbert Lom as Van Helsing, Soledad Miranda as Lucy, Maria Rohm as Mina and Klaus Kinski as Renfield to its sumptuously unnerving cinematography and eerie Bruno Nicolai score.

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While on a dig in Egypt, British archaeologist John Banning (Peter Cushing) desecrates the tomb of Princess Ananka, awakening her mummified lover (Christopher Lee). With revenge on his mind, the mummy follows Banning and the rest of his group back to England, but becomes quite taken with Banning’s wife (Yvonne Furneaux), who resembles the princess quite closely.

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A Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones unleashing a malevolent being on the scientist’s family and friends.

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A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.

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Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarizes music from a voodoo ceremony; a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.

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Peter Cushing stars in Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965) as a mysterious fortune teller called Dr Terror who reads the tarot cards to tell the future of five fellow passengers aboard a British train. Unfortunately, they are all about to be victims of supernatural death in director Freddie Francis’s enjoyable, slickly handled, and very popular 1965 British chiller revival of the old horror compendium form of separate stories with a linking device.

Cushing brings dignity and depth to his down-at-heel Dr Schreck (Dr Death) type character, Christopher Lee gives a gleeful account of Franklyn Marsh, an opinionated art critic hounded by an artist’s amputated hand in segment 4 Disembodied Hand, and a youngish Donald Sutherland (already 30 in 1965) has campy fun as vampire Jennifer Jayne’s husband Dr Bob Carroll in segment 5 Vampire.

Dr Terror’s House of Horrors is a considerable success that is marred only by one single weak story – the voodoo item, segment 3 Voodoo, with Roy Castle as Biff Bailey, a jazz musician suffering a curse after copying voodoo tunes. The good script is by Amicus Productions producers Milton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg, spearheading the era of the Amicus portmanteau movie.

The downside is that it was made very cheaply, for around £105,000, so its productions values are low, the special effects (by Ted Samuels) are negligible, and the art direction (by Bill Constable) is modest. And time has not necessarily been very kind to the movie, exposing some deficiencies in the acting (with some of the actors going the ripe over-acting route) and in the film editing (Thelma Connell).

Also in the cast are Ursula Howells, Peter Madden, Katy Wild and Neil McCallum as Jim Dawson in segment 1 Werewolf.

Also in the cast are disc jockey Alan Freeman as Bill Rogers, Ann Bell as Ann Rogers, Phoebe Nicholls as Carol Rogers, Bernard Lee as Hopkins and Jeremy Kemp in segment 2 Creeping Vine.

Also in the cast are Kenny Lynch, Christopher Carlos, Harold Lang and The Tubby Hayes Quintet in segment 3 Voodoo. Tubby Hayes is the composer of the jazz music and Kenny Lynch is the composer of the songs, with Philip Martell as the conductor and composer of additional music.

Also in the cast are Michael Gough as Eric Landor, Isla Blair, Pauline Chamberlain, Judy Cornwell and Frank Forsyth in segment 4 Disembodied Hand.

Also in the cast are Max Adrian as Dr Blake, Laurie Leigh, Al Mulock and Irene Richmond in segment 5 Vampire.

Dr Terror’s House of Horrors is directed by Freddie Francis, runs 98 minutes, is made by Amicus Productions, is released by Regal Films International (1965) (UK) and Paramount Pictures (1965) (US), is written by Milton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg, is shot by Alan Hume, is produced by Joe Vegoda (executive producer), Milton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg, is scored by Elisabeth Lutyens and is designed by Bill Constable.

It scored strongly at the box office, spawning many others from Amicus and Francis like Tales from the Crypt (1972), The Vault of Horror (1973), Tales That Witness Madness (1973), and From Beyond the Grave (1974). Francis’s 1967 Torture Garden, The House That Dripped Blood (1971) and Asylum (1972) are the three Amicus portmanteau films written by Robert Bloch and based on his own stories.

Castle and Cushing reunited for Dr Who and the Daleks and Legend of the Werewolf.

— Derek Winnert

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The book IN SEARCH OF DRACULA, by Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu, was one I checked out of school libraries multiple times. The book proposed a link between the character of Dracula created by author Bram Stoker and the real-life Transylvanian historical figure Vlad Tepes. In the early 1970s it was adapted into a film of the same name, with appearances and narration by none other than Christopher Lee. Kino has released the project on Region A Blu-ray.

The film IN SEARCH OF DRACULA was directed by Calvin Floyd, who would go on to make a very authentic version of the Frankenstein story (TERROR OF FRANKENSTEIN). The movie had production help from Sam Sherman’s Independent-International Pictures, which is why scenes from Al Adamson’s infamous DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN appear in it.

IN SEARCH OF DRACULA is another of those productions I had read about for years, but never actually seen. It’s something of a haphazard affair, jumping from one aspect of vampire lore to the next. Several atmospheric European locations are used, including a number in Romania that have a personal connection to Vlad Tepes.

Many legends concerning the undead are presented and discussed (some of these sound as if they come from the imaginations of a writer rather than historical research). There’s plenty of examples given about Vlad Tepes’ cruelty….if the guy really did commit all the atrocities accredited to him in this film, he’d hardly have time to do much of anything else. (One does have to realize that in a project like this, the “juicy stuff” is going to get the most attention.)

After about an hour, the film starts to slack off (apparently it was lengthened to make it a full-length theatrical feature). A sequence from a silent movie starring Theda Bara is shown (for the sole reason that the actress was a famed “vamp”). There’s a discussion about how Mary Shelly created FRANKENSTEIN, and then there’s another silent film sequence featuring Bela Lugosi, which has nothing to do with vampires. (Even the stills shown of Lugosi here are not of him as Dracula–obviously no one connected with the production wanted to get sued by Universal.)

What makes IN SEARCH OF DRACULA worthy is the presence of Christopher Lee. His narration is efficiently serious, without being bombastic. Lee not only appears onscreen as himself, he also has a few scenes as Stoker’s Dracula, confronting a young woman who is apparently playing Mina Harker. (In these scenes, Lee looks very much like he did in Jess Franco’s COUNT DRACULA.) Lee also appears as Vlad Tepes, wandering around various locales. In this guise Lee greatly resembles the historical representations of Vlad, and one automatically thinks about what type of movie could have been made with the actor giving a proper portrayal of the Transylvanian nobleman. There’s also a few clips of Lee as the Count in Hammer’s SCARS OF DRACULA (thankfully the worst aspects of that film are not shown). Considering what Lee had to say about his association with the character in interviews over the years, it’s surprising he was involved in this project at all–but the fact that he was gives the film a degree of respectability that it otherwise would not have had. (Lee evens ends the film in a way that will greatly entertain classic monster movie fans.)

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