
Two couples traveling in eastern Europe decide to visit Karlsbad despite dire local warnings. Left outside the village by a coachman terrified at the approach of night, they find themselves in the local castle and are surprised at the hospitality extended by the sinister Klove. It turns out the owner, Count Dracula, dead for ten years, has been hoping for such a visit.... (Full plot summary below)
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Two couples traveling in eastern Europe decide to visit Karlsbad despite dire local warnings. Left outside the village by a coachman terrified at the approach of night, they find themselves in the local castle and are surprised at the hospitality extended by the sinister Klove. It turns out the owner, Count Dracula, dead for ten years, has been hoping for such a visit.
Leave your thoughts about Dracula: Prince of Darkness.
| VarietyVariety StaffThe thrills do not arise sufficiently smooth out of atmosphere. |
| Radio TimesAlan JonesThis is a text-book example of top-grade ghoulish horror from Hammer's golden era. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonIt's an effective bit of Hammer horror, boasting the expected atmospherics, period trappings, literary conceits and, yes, buxom beauties. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAverage made Hammer horror pic about Dracula's resurrection. |
| Empire MagazineWilliam ThomasOnce Dracula is up and about, the script can't find much for him to do, but there are spirited performances from Shelley, as an uptight bourgeois who becomes a sensual vampire hoyden, and Kier, as a gun-toting monk who fills in for Van Helsing. |
| Time OutDavid PirieFull of the sensual mysteriousness which Hammer used to achieve so effortlessly during their long occupation of Bray Studios. |
| Monthly Film BulletinMFB CriticsApart from one or two welcome innovations -- notably the sort of Instant Vampire recipe by which Dracula is resuscitated, and his final destruction by drowning rather than by the usual procedures -- this is the same old hash as before. |
| User ReviewSamurai FAtmospheric and scary, one of the best of the screen's Dracula movies. |
| User ReviewKalinka Pcan't go wrong with classic horror... |
| User ReviewPaula Djunto con las de pesadillas en elm street mis inicios en el genero. |