In the Carpathians come four Englishmen Charles Kent with his wife Diana and his brother Alan with his wife Helen. In spite of the warning of the Abbot of the local monastery Abbot Sandor they penetrate into the mysterious castle where they are greeted by the caretaker of the Clove "servant of the deceased owner count Dracula"
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
| Year | 1965 |
|---|---|
| Country | UK |
| Tagline | The Greatest All New Fright Show In Town! |
| Director | Terence Fisher |
| Cinematography | Michael Reed |
| Scriptwriters | Jimmy SangsterAnthony HindsBram Stoker |
| Produced | Anthony Nelson Keys |
| Music | James Bernard |
| Art Direction | Bernard RobinsonDon Mingaye |
| Editing | Chris Barnes |
| Genres | Horror |
| USA Gross | $795 562сборы |
| Release Date | January 9, 1966 |
| Runtime | 90 min. |
Plot Summary
Did You Know?
Tape shot on Techniscope system.
The film was shot right along with the movie "Rasputin: the Mad monk" using the same actors, crew and scenery.
The picture was released along with the movie "Plague of zombies". Sessions fans gave plastic vampire fangs and cardboard glasses "zombie eyes".
Barbara Shelley recalled how during the filming of this movie she accidentally swallowed one of his artificial fangs. And then drank salt water to bring it back, due to the tight schedule of the shooting, and due to the lack of spare sets of fangs.
In this movie Dracula doesn't say a single word, not counting the screams at the time of death. Reading the script, Christopher Lee thought the dialogue your character is so awful that abandons them. However, screenwriter Jimmy Sangster, in his memoirs, stated that "vampires don't know how to talk. So I didn't write him any dialogue. Chris Lee stated that he refuses to pronounce, supposedly written by me dialogues... Judge for yourself why Christopher Lee wasn't the dialogues in the film. Take my scenario. I did not write anything".
