A History of Horror John Carpenter, Sara Karloff, Gloria Stuart, Carla Laemmle, Donnie Dunagan, and Sheila Wynn (Lugosi's co-star in a 1951 Dracula tour). The second episode focuses on the British Hammer Films of the 1950s and 1960s, which inspired Gatiss' childhood passion for horror. He meets key figures from Hammer to discuss the series of Frankenstein and Dracula films which made stars of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, both of whom Gatiss argues are underrated talents. He also identifies a short-lived subgenre of British folk horror drawing on paganism and folklore, including "Witchfinder General" (1968), his personal favourite "Blood on Satan's Claw" (1970)
Dracula in popular culture Spanish production company Janus Films. This movie predated Francis Ford Coppola's vision of Dracula as a romantic figure by 20 years. In 1974, Andy Warhol presented an outrageously campy Dracula (also known as "Blood for Dracula"), directed by Paul Morrissey and starring cult icons Udo Kier (as the Count) and Joe Dallesandro. "Dracula and Son" (1976) is a French comedy again starring Christopher Lee as Dracula, here having trouble convincing his son to take up the family mantle of vampirism (in interviews, Lee has claimed that his character was not called Dracula during filming, and that the producers only decided