Taste the Blood of Dracula

Director: Peter Sasdy
Genre: Horror, Costume Horror
Year: 1970
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English Language
Starring: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Anthony Higgins, Peter Sallis, Isla Blair, Martin Jarvis, Ralph Bates, John Carson, Roy Kinnear, Michael Ripper, Linda Hayden

Taste the Blood of Dracula is a British horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions and released in 1970. It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, and was directed by Peter Sasdy.

In a prologue, an English business man named Weller travelling in Eastern Europe comes across Dracula as he dies in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave and collects his dried-up blood, his cloak and his ring.

Three English gentlemen - Hargood, Paxton and Secker - have formed a circle ostensibly devoted to charitable work but in reality they indulge themselves in brothels. One night they are intrigued by a young man who bursts into the brothel and is immediately tended to after snapping his fingers, despite the brothelkeeper's objections. The gentlemen are informed that he is Courtley, who was disinherited for celebrating a Black Mass.

Hoping for more intense pleasures, Hargood meets Courtley outside the brothel. The younger man takes the three to the Cafe Royal and promises them experiences they will never forget but insists that they come to see Weller and purchase from him Dracula's ring, cloak and dried-up blood. The three meet with Courtley at an abandoned Church for a ceremony during which he puts

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