Dracula (1958 film) Dracula (1958 film) Dracula is a 1958 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster based on Bram Stoker's novel of the same name. The first in the series of Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, this original also features Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, along with Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, and John Van Eyssen. In the U.S. the film was retitled Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the earlier "Dracula" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi, and the film was released in the U.S. in 1958 on a double feature
Blood of Dracula Blood of Dracula Blood of Dracula (UK title: Blood Is My Heritage) is a horror film starring Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis and Gail Ganley, released by American International Pictures (AIP) in November 1957. It is one of two follow-up films to AIP's box office hit "I Was a Teenage Werewolf". Despite the title, the film has nothing to do with either Dracula or his blood. "Blood of Dracula" was released theatrically in 1957 on a double feature with "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein." The film is in black-and-white. Six weeks after the death of her mother, Nancy Perkins' father (Thomas