robk
04-13-2005, 11:34 AM
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
When I first saw the previews for this in high school, I thought it sounded cool; vampires with kung fu(especially since Enter the Dragon had come out the year before).
When I finally saw it a few years later, I thought it wasn't bad. Peter Cushing, of course, is always worth watching, & the absence of Christopher Lee didn't damage the film as it otherwise may have, basically because he would've only been in the film for a few seconds at the very beginning & for a few seconds at the very end(that plus the fact that Lee was tiring of playing the Count by 1974-although that same year did see him narrate & appear in the wonderful documentary In Search of Dracula).
The only real thing the film had me scratching my head about was when Van Helsing's students make reference to his past encounters with Dracula, even though the Count had been taking up housekeeping in that monk's body for a full century by that point.
Otherwise, the film was entertaining. One could say it's Jason X with good acting & with a kung fu/vampire dynamic rather than a space/slasher one.
When I first saw the previews for this in high school, I thought it sounded cool; vampires with kung fu(especially since Enter the Dragon had come out the year before).
When I finally saw it a few years later, I thought it wasn't bad. Peter Cushing, of course, is always worth watching, & the absence of Christopher Lee didn't damage the film as it otherwise may have, basically because he would've only been in the film for a few seconds at the very beginning & for a few seconds at the very end(that plus the fact that Lee was tiring of playing the Count by 1974-although that same year did see him narrate & appear in the wonderful documentary In Search of Dracula).
The only real thing the film had me scratching my head about was when Van Helsing's students make reference to his past encounters with Dracula, even though the Count had been taking up housekeeping in that monk's body for a full century by that point.
Otherwise, the film was entertaining. One could say it's Jason X with good acting & with a kung fu/vampire dynamic rather than a space/slasher one.