The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
“Hammer Horror! Dragon Thrills! The First Kung Fu Horror Spectacular!”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 61, rated by 1 admin.
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Van Helsing travels through China to help villagers threatened by vampires. Hammer and Shaw Brothers combine Gothic horror with martial-arts combat, giving Peter Cushing a particularly unusual expedition. The connecting story is thin, but the energetic mixture has a clear identity of its own.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 3.5/10
- Plot
- 8.5/10
- Effects
- 4.5/10
- Dialogue
- 6/10
- Rewatchability
- 8/10
“Van Helsing's fieldwork has taken a sudden turn towards martial-arts logistics.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 61
Synopsis and movie facts
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
- Released
- 1974
- Directed by
- Roy Ward Baker
- Running time
- 89 min
Starring
- Peter Cushing as Professor Lawrence Van Helsing
- David Chiang Da-wei as Hsi Ching / Hsi's Ancestor
- Julie Ege as Vanessa Buren
- Robin Stewart as Leyland Van Helsing
- Shih Szu as Hsi Mai-Kwei
- John Forbes-Robertson as Count Dracula
- Robert Hanna as British Consul
- James Ma Chim-Si as Hsi Ta (Twin Axe)
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 26480.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review finds the action enjoyable and Dracula dignified, while criticising the thin connective plot.
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