{"id":23088,"title":"The Satanic Rites of Dracula","description":"We are the General Witchfinders, we review horrific British horror, mainly from the 1970\u2019s, in this episode we watched. The Satanic Rites of Dracula, from Hammer. Two years after the events of Dracula AD 1972, a Secret Service agent barely escapes from an English country house, in which satanic rituals are being celebrated. Before he dies, he reveals to his superiors that four prominent members of society \u2013 a government minister, a peer, a general and a famous scientist \u2013 are involved in a cult led by the satanic priestess Chin Yang. Scotland Yard's Inspector Murray is called in, for who Michael Coles reprises his role, to work on the case independently","content":"

We are the General Witchfinders, we review horrific British horror, mainly from the 1970\u2019s, in this episode we watched\u2026<\/p>

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from Hammer<\/p>

Two years after the events of Dracula AD 1972, a Secret Service agent barely escapes from an English country house, in which satanic rituals are being celebrated. Before he dies, he reveals to his superiors that four prominent members of society \u2013 a government minister, a peer, a general and a famous scientist \u2013 are involved in a cult led by the satanic priestess Chin Yang.<\/p>

Scotland Yard's Inspector Murray is called in, for who Michael Coles reprises his role, to work on the case independently. Murray suggests consulting a noted occult expert, The heroic Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing, of course, played by Peter Cushing, who is assisted by his granddaughter Jessica, now played by Joanna Lumley.<\/p>

Van Helsing visits his scientist friend, Julian Keeley, whom he recognized among the four conspirators. He discovers Keely is undertaking bacteriological research designed to create a virulent strain of the bubonic plague. Keeley referred to the 23rd of the month, which Van Helsing explains is the \"Sabbath of the Undead\", the date that Dracula plans to unleash the plague on the world as his final revenge.<\/p>

The action converges back at the country house where our heroes face off against Dracula, his vampiric brides and the satanic cultists.<\/p>

In the United States, the film was distributed in a heavily edited version titled Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride. This was the final Hammer film that Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing would make together. The two stars would eventually reunite one more time in House of the Long Shadows, ten years later.<\/p>

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Scores:<\/h3>

Ross 2.5 \/ JON 5 \/ JAMES 3.5<\/h2>

Horrific Links:<\/h3>

Possessor<\/u><\/a>
Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson<\/u><\/a>
Adam Curtis - can\u2019t get you out of my head<\/u><\/a><\/p>