Brides of Dracula
and Kiss of the Vampire
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I received a call from my ornery grandson, Big Abner, the other day, and I could tell right off he was up to something.
“Granny,” he said, “I just watched two movies and they really sucked!”
My mind raced, going over all the low-budget, Z-movies I could think of.
“Which ones?” I asked, taking the bait.
“Brides of Dracula and Kiss of the Vampire!” he said with a big laugh. “Get it? Do you get it?”
“Yes, Abner, I get it, you big goof. Was there anything about them you liked?”
“Yep, two things,” he responded. “Beautiful women and beautiful vampire women.”
I sighed and told him to get back to work.
After he hung up I began to think about what he said, and there was some truth to it. Hammer Films ushered in a new retelling of the old Universal classics with The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) and Horror of Dracula (1958), both color productions that featured lots of blood and graphic stake-driving scenes not pictured in the old versions. And each was complete with ghastly monsters and…beautiful women, often in bosom-baring low-cut dresses as befitted the time period in which the movie was set. They were hits and Hammer Studios began a series of movies on the Frankenstein and Dracula legends. …
Brides of Dracula
and Kiss of the Vampire
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