The Brides of Dracula

Marianne (Yvonne Monlaur) the visiting French teacher, unaware of the vampire business, doing well not being shocked at how the Baroness (Martita Hunt) treats her maybe-mad son, whom she accidentally saw, whereupon he (David Peel) explains his perspective, in Hammer Films’ The Brides Of Dracula, 1960.

Opening with plenty-chilling narration, from Hammer Films’ and director Terence Fisher, French Marianne (Yvonne Monlaur) rides into Transylvania with a nervous driver (Michael Ripper) and a lurking spook (Michael Mulcaster), in the 1960 monster spinoff The Brides Of Dracula, starring Peter Cushing.

Thirty-minutes into the picture, after teacher Marianne (Yvonne Monlaur) has fled nasty doings at the castle in Transylvania, she’s saved by top-billed Peter Cushing, in his first scene, as Van Helsing, the innkeeper and wife (Norman PIerce, Vera Cook) with further news, in The Brides Of Dracula, 1960.

Van Helsing (Peter Cushing), rightly suspecting that servant Greta (Freda Jackson) is with the vampires, catches her coaching the freshly dead “village girl” (Marie Devereux) on rising from the grave, the priest (un-credited actor!) assisting after she transforms, in Hammer Films’ The Brides Of Dracula, 1960.