in this desperate and thoroughly silly attempt to keep hammer dracula franchise alive despite have lose most of it power long time already and our legendary vampire be bring back to life in the swinging london of 1972. exactly hundred year after he be destroy by his archenemy van helsing and an occult disciple name johnny alucard ( get it . get it . ) gather his flamboyant friend in an abandon church and among them van helsing great granddaughter jessica and and perform a satanic ritual that resurrect dracula in a haze of smoke . dracula only mission be to wreak havoc upon the entire van helsing lineage and fragile jessica be the ideal victim to achieve this . this be probably the only 70 film that go immensely over the top in try to look like a 70 film . consider the previous six dracula film be all set in the victorian era and director alan gibson really want to stress the fact be in the 20th century now and thus he stuff his film with insufferable hippie character and hideous 70 fashion trend and awful 70 music . christopher lee and peter cushing seem hopelessly lose in this setting and their performance regretfully show it . the opening sequence ( a flashback ) and the showdown climax be fairly enjoyable and but everything in between be painfully boring and the complete opposite of scary . the great element in this series of film have always be dracula dark castle and the exhilarating coach race and and obviously and this installment lack all of that . luckily for the fan and hammer studio contemporary release other film revolve on vampire that be much well ( the vampire lover and twin of evil and the legend of the seven golden vampire ) . not recommend .