Dracula, prince of darkness 1965legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974frankenstein created woman 1967 directors. The legend of the 7 golden vampires film tv tropes. Cushing once again plays professor van helsing, who this time pursues draculaplayed less than memorably by john forbesrobinson, christopher lee having finally tired of the role. Thanks to the verite horrors of films like night of the living dead 1968, their unique brand of gothic chills seemed archaic as dusty as one of draculas cobwebbed tombs. Fists of fury meet fearsome fangs as the vampire hunter persuades a gang of black belts, in 1904 chungking, to help him put an end to the bloodthirsty horror of dracula. While lecturing in china, van helsing agrees to help. Dracula isnt played by christopher lee, the make up is a bit of a disappointment and he appears, no doubt unintentionally like a stage magician. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 horror movie. Buy the legend of seven golden vampires microsoft store. Legend of the seven golden vampires soundtrack cd details and availability.
That means we get the joy of peter cushing s dramatic narration, backed with the musical accompaniment of. Buy the legend of seven golden vampires microsoft store engb. Cushing was on hand having wrapped filming of 1973s legend of the 7 golden vampires, a flawed but far more enjoyable hybrid of the shaw brothers and hammer styles. Meanwhile across the world, van helsing is giving a lecture about the legend of the golden vampires when he gets a visit from a man named hsi ching, who tells him that the legend is true and that he comes from that village and needs his help to stop the remaining 6 golden vampires who wish to avenge the death of the 7 th on the seventh moon. Me and a friend went downtown to either the oriental theater or the statelake theater we went so often, i forget which movie was seen where. Legend of 7 golden vampires, the on dvd 01056099 from starz anchor bay. I know, someone must have said, lets make a kung fu vampire movie. Frankenstein created woman 1967 marked the return of terence fisher to the hammer frankenstein series. While lecturing in china, van helsing agrees to help seven kung fu trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves. Staring john forbesrobinson, robin stewart, julie edge and david chiang.
Presented with the support of hong kong economic and trade office new york and celestial. He tells van helsing that he knows the location of the village and begs him to join him on a quest to rid the world of the golden vampires once and for all. Sep 22, 2014 classic hammer horror release on warner bros in 1974. One of those in the audience is a young man skilled in kungfu. The legend of the 7 golden vampires, narrated by peter. This is the soundtrack to the classic hammer horror film the legend of the 7 vampires, but it is an unusual soundtrack album in that it essentially tells the story afresh. You actually see vampires using the martial arts to fight their opponents. While lecturing in china, van helsing agrees to help seven kung fu trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of.
Fisher had been temporarily ousted after the studios displeasure over the directors character driven phantom of the opera 1961. Rent legend of the 7 golden vampires 1979 on dvd and blu. The two genres were combined for this movie in what has to be a first. By the time of the legend of the 7 golden vampires in 1974 hammer studios was dying. The golden legend internet history sourcebooks project. However the student hsi ching meets van helsing at home and tells that. Through an exclusive licensing agreement with studio canal, millennium entertainment plans to release a number of hammer horror classics on dvd and bluray. John forbesrobertson replaces christopher lee as count dracula. Peter cushing, david chiang, julie ege, roy ward baker, cheh chang. Indeed, golden vampires would mark the last appearance of their erstwhile count and hammer would soon after stagger into.
Legend of 7 golden vampires, the dvd 1974 dvd empire. Legend of the 7 golden vampires the aka the 7 brothers meet. He recounts the legend of the 7 golden vampires which we are treated to in flashback. Frankenstein created womanthe legend of the 7 golden vampires. He awakes dracula from his tomb and explains that he is kah, the high priest of the seven golden vampires in china that are powerless. Legend of the 7 golden vampires, the soundtrack details. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 soundtrack. In a world populated by shit we do not want to watch, we cannot recommend enough tracking down a copy of the classic film legend of the 7. The legend of the 7 golden vampires was a coproduction between hong kongs shaw brothers and englands hammer studios in an attempt to cross hammers popular dracula series with classic shaw style kung fu. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 alternate versions. Legend of the 7 golden vampires the aka the 7 brothers meet dracula 1974 count dracula journeys to a remote chinese village in the guise of a warlord to support six vampires who are dispirited after the loss of a seventh member of their cult. The legend of the 7 golden vampires is a rich instance of this in horror. Classic hammer horror release on warner bros in 1974. The film opens with kah chan shen, the high priest of the 7 golden vampires paying a visit to count dracula played tolerably by christopher lee substitute john.
Peter cushing as professor van helsing is hired later in 1904 after giving a lecture at a chinese university to take on the vampires. The 7 golden vampires seem to really prefer their victims topless. The legend of the 7 golden vampires directed by roy ward baker, cheh chang. Hammer turns its gothic gaze to china, and gives us a cobwebbed creepscape of deserted villages, abandoned cemeteries, and shadowy shrines where golden masked vampires flit through the night, feasting on a terrified populace in this gloomy, moody, surreal nightmare of endless undead cannibalism. The film is a britishhong kong coproduction between. In the 1970s, they worked on various films with italian and australian. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 alternate.
Subscribe to hammer for all our latest releases and classic clips 1k38x0a available on dvd uk. Some of the undead mooks attack leland with chinese hook swords during the cave ambush. Sedmoro brace srecu draculu je britanskohongkonski igrani film snimljen 1974. After learning about the seven golden vampires of the village, hsi ching, vanessa beren and mai kwei offer to guide van helsing and his son to ping kuei to free it from the curse of count dracula. Watch the legend of the 7 golden vampires full movie in hd visit professor van helsing had been asked to help against. The legend of the 7 golden vampires is a 1974 martial arts horror film. Jun 09, 2009 legend of the 7 golden vampires remake.
The film is set in 1804 where seven vampires clad in gold masks who were resurrected by count dracula, played by john forbesrobertson. Legend seven 7 golden vampires dvd 1974 peter cushing hammer. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 2003 rotten tomatoes. T he legend of the 7 golden vampires was a 1974 horror film produced by hammer studios and shaw brothers studio. One legend speaks of a werewolf attacking a priest in ragusa. The legend of the 7 golden vampires is a 1974 film about siblings who reclaim their ancestral mountain village from vampires. The storyline follows draculas disturbance by a chinese vampires servitor who has travelled to his keep to inform him of the misfortunes of his seven golden vampires. The legend of ancient china side one 16side two 7 16 7. Check out more movies that start with t and movies from 1974. In 19thcentury china, a group of evildoers known as the seven golden vampires visit count draculas grave, where they. Legend of the 7 golden vampires the aka the 7 brothers. Rent legend of the 7 golden vampires 1979 starring peter cushing and david chiang on dvd and bluray. The legend of the 7 golden vampires is a rich instance of this in horror movie history, as it attempted to drag not only dracula and his genre from his tomb once more, but also the studio that had been trading on his name since the 1950s.
The legend of the 7 golden vampires is a 1974 horror filmmartial arts film produced by hammer film productions and shaw brothers studio. Oct 31, 2011 he recounts the legend of the 7 golden vampires which we are treated to in flashback. Learn more about frankenstein created womanthe legend of the 7 golden vampires on imdb. The film is set in 1804 where seven vampires clad in gold masks who were resurrected. The legend of the seven golden vampires harakiri official clip. The legend of the seven golden vampires 1974 sometimes you just have to wonder what was going on in the heads of movie makers when they started out on some of these schemes. He needs dracula to restore their power and the vampire takes kahs body and image. Legend of the seven golden vampires classic horror film. They had a bunch of kung fu movies playing, including legend of the seven golden vampires, chinese connection, and some others. The legend of the 7 golden vampires film at lincoln center.
Terrified, the priest stabbed the beast with a wooden crucifix and caused it to bleed. Nastao je u produkciji znamenitog britanskog studija hammer films te predstavlja deveti i posljednji film iz njegove. Legenda o 7 zlatnih vampira, ponekad prikazivan i pod naslovom the seven brothers meet dracula sh. In a world populated by shit we do not want to watch, we cannot recommend enough tracking down a copy of the classic film legend of the 7 golden vampires. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 full movie. The legend of the 7 golden vampires was released in 1974 in the far east and. With peter cushing, david chiang, julie ege, han chen wang. There are two versions of this film, but my favorite is the one called legend of the seven golden vampires as opposed to the seven brothers meet dracula. Oct 16, 2009 by the time of the legend of the 7 golden vampires in 1974 hammer studios was dying. Feb 24, 2007 me and a friend went downtown to either the oriental theater or the statelake theater we went so often, i forget which movie was seen where. After killing dracula enough times that christopher lee got sick of it, hammer shook things up by adding kungfu to the formula with the sir run run shaw coproduced legend of the seven golden vampires. Most dialects in italy have their individual term for the fearsome werewolve and most have a fascinating story attached too.
Terence fisherroy ward baker millennium entertainment. The legend of the 7 golden vampires photos view all photos 1 movie info. The legend of the 7 golden vampires original soundtrack. Popular videos the legend of the 7 golden vampires youtube. Legend of the seven golden vampires classic horror film board. In 1804, in transylvania, a chinese walker heads to the castle of dracula. The legend of the 7 golden vampires dvd is a fun hammer vampire movie with a kung fu twist.
He tells van helsing that he knows the location of the village and begs him to join him on a quest to. It was released in north america in an edited version as the seven brothers meet dracula. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 movie details. The version entitled the seven brothers meet dracula runs 72m versus the 89m of the original legend of the seven golden vampires.
Peter cushing, david chiang, julie ege, robin stewart, szu shih, john forbesrobertson, robert hanna, shen chan, james ma, fong lah ann. Disc two is a flipper pairing roy ward bakers legend of the seven golden vampires and terence fishers frankenstein created woman. Watch the legend of the 7 golden vampires prime video. One hundred years later, professor laurence van helsing gives a lecture at a chinese university about the legend of the seven golden vampires but the students leave the auditorium finding that the all the exposition is superstition. Of course in todays world, there are lots of hybrid types of movies, but at the time it was very unusual. In 1880, professor lawrence van helsing travels to china to lecture on the old chinese legend of the seven golden vampires. The scene in draculas castle, the precredits scene in the original, now occurrs about 15m into the film and has been edited down so that it is completely incoherent and out of context. The legend of the 7 golden vampires trivia tv tropes. Horror icon peter cushing narrates the plot of the 7 golden vampires while the music is composed by james bernard.
Legend of the seven golden vampires soundtrack 1974. Leyland fights over a knife with one of leung hons mooks, and stabs the guy. The legend of ancient china side one 16side two 716 7. The short version eliminates whole dialogue sections e.