Horror of Dracula

Two simple shots, the opening from Hammer Films’ Horror Of Dracula, 1958, only the studio’s second color horror film and the international hit that led to the studio’s commitment to the genre, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

Without revealing that he’s a vampire hunter, Van Helsing (Peter Cushing, not seen here) has just told Arthur and Mina (Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling) of the death of Harker, fiancè to his sister Lucy (Carol Marsh), who has strangely taken ill, in Hammer Films’ Horror Of Dracula, 1958.

Arthur (Michael Gough), now apparently convinced by what Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) has told him about the death of his sister Lucy (Carol Marsh), visits her grave, the servant girl Tania (Janina Faye) wandering the woods, in Hammer Films’ Horror Of Dracula, 1958.

First appearance of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, in tiny Klausenburg investigating the disappearance of Harker, whom we know died at the hands of Count Dracula, George Woodbridge and Barbara Archer at the inn, in Hammer Films’ Horror Of Dracula, 1958.

Mina (Melissa Stribling) has asked Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) for a second opinion on the condition of her sister-in-law Lucy (Carol Marsh), who is suddenly anemic, after her fiancè Jonathan, his colleague, disappeared hunting vampires, in Hammer Films’ Horror Of Dracula, 1958.

After readings from his diary that have not quite revealed his true purpose, Harker (John Van Eyssen) is greeted by a mysterious female (Valerie Gaunt), then his host, Christopher Lee (title character), in Hammer Films’ Horror Of Dracula, 1958, starring Peter Cushing.

Christopher Lee takes the role of the bloodthirsty count versus Peter Cushing's Van Helsing in Hammer Films' Horror of Dracula (1958).