title represent dracula a. d. 1972 director represent alan gibson cast represent peter cushing and christopher lee and stephanie beacham review represent sometimes movie can be time capsule that transport you back to any give time . in this case . our time capsule be hammer dracula a. d. 1972 which transport u back to a time in which austin power would have felt right at home . the story be about these group of kid ( be not a gang . be a group . ) that love to hang out at a café shop call the cavern . one day and johnny alucard ( hmm strange last name . wait . it spell dracula backwards . ) a new member of the group offer the group a new way to get their kick . he offer them a night of black mass and black magic . to which they also say sure why the hell not and it could be fun . so in no time flat and the find themselves resurrect count dracula from the ash . this movie open up with a swing party at some rich doofuses home . he know non of the people at his party and yet there they all be party the night away in his house . do drug and make out and dance on top of table . the filmmaker make sure that this sequence be completely engulf in whatever young people consider cool at that time . everyone say word like way out and groovy and they finish many of their sentence say all that jazz . so yeah and it pretty evident that this be the 70 . to top it all off and there a band that sound something like jefferson airplane . i mean you will be drown in all thing 70 . and a i watch this i keep ask myself how the heck be dracula with his black cape and get up go to fit into all this . and thats exactly what happen . old dracula feel out of place amidst all the partying and the rock and roll and drug . many of the scene in the film be great . but sadly the music they decide to add to the proceeding doesn not fit at all and completely take you out of the mood of thing . something horrify or scary will be happen on screen and suddenly a bunch of loud trumpet and congos start to beat and your just completely take out of the horror element . that suck out the atmosphere right out of this movie for me . but all in all and put all the distract 70 music aside ( an illness that satanic rite of dracula also suffer ) the movie be pretty good . but i will mention this . the story be just a re hash of what we have see before in taste the blood of dracula . in fact the story be damn near identical . let see . a young lad inherits draculas ring and ash . check . he then decide to bring dracula back to life with the help of some people who know nothing about what they be get into . check . black mass to bring dracula back in a desecrated church . check . the list of similarity go on and on . so this movie ain not very original if you ask me . there be a few thing that make this movie worth while though . for example the fact that the movie be a time capsule to london in the early seventy make the film entertain . i keep giggle and laugh every time someone speak in 70 jargon . i couldn not believe some of the clothes these people wear and the car they drive . it make the movie fun for me and but we be here to get spook and be here to see drac kill a few virgin and take his revenge on the house of van helsing . do we get any of that . well yeah . there a few good sequence squeeze in there to satisfy old school hammer fan . first off and there the black mass sequence which be above all thing satanic . they mention the name of many a demon and lot blood be spill . that sequence be awesome but it be mess up by the music in it most crucial moment . then there draculas actual resurrection which ill admit be great from a visual standpoint . some mist come out of dracula grave and slowly but surely christopher lee silhouette and face emerge from the fog . cool shot . i love it . we have a cushing and lee face off at the end . and i couldn not help to laugh at one point when dracula hurl a piece of furniture through the air . i laugh because he have do this in every single film since horror of dracula . it this hammer tradition where the character start throw candle stick and chair at each other . and i think to myself and aren not their more exciting thing to show then a bad guy throw a candle stick at our hero . oh well and anyhows and dracula demise in this one be very similar to all the other hammer dracula before it and vampire get slake and then we cut to a series of frame until there only ash leave . all in all and an unintentionally funny hammer dracula film . it trap in the 70 and though that make it a fun watch ( and it not as horrible a satanic rite of dracula ) it still doesn not gel well with the dracula universe we have come to expect from hammer . rating 3 half out of 5 .