In 19thcentury china, a group of evildoers known as the seven golden vampires visit count draculas grave, where they. Nastao je u produkciji znamenitog britanskog studija hammer films te predstavlja deveti i posljednji film. Its not perfect and has plenty of faults but its one of the best of hammers dracula series and finishes the series on a reasonable, if somewhat silly, high. I know, someone must have said, lets make a kung fu vampire movie. The legend of the 7 golden vampires is a 1974 horror filmmartial arts film produced by hammer film productions and shaw brothers studio. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 2003 rotten tomatoes. With peter cushing, david chiang, julie ege, han chen wang. The legend of the 7 golden vampires was released in 1974 in the far east and. Starring peter cushing, david chiang, robin stewart, julie ege, shih szu, chan shen, lau karwing, huang peichih, john forbesrobertson, tino wong cheung, james ma chimsi, wynn lau chunfai, ho keicheong, wang hanchen. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 movie details. They had a bunch of kung fu movies playing, including legend of the seven golden vampires, chinese connection, and some others. You actually see vampires using the martial arts to fight their opponents.
Professor van helsing peter cushing and count dracula john forbesrobinson meet again in this kung fu horror spectacular set in the village of ping kuei. In 1804, in transylvania, a chinese walker heads to the castle of dracula. Legend seven 7 golden vampires dvd 1974 peter cushing hammer. Legenda o 7 zlatnih vampira, ponekad prikazivan i pod naslovom the seven brothers meet dracula sh. Indeed, golden vampires would mark the last appearance of their erstwhile count and hammer would soon. I always found the film to be very enjoyable, and fun. John forbesrobertson replaces christopher lee as count dracula. The legend of the 7 golden vampires light in the attic. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 horror movie. The legend of the 7 golden vampires film at lincoln center. 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. It is the ninth and final film in the hammer dracula series.
Bsx records presents the original soundtrack to the hammer horror classic legend of the 7 golden vampires. The legend of the 7 golden vampires light in the attic records. The legend of the 7 golden vampires photos view all photos 1 movie info. Some of the undead mooks attack leland with chinese hook swords during the cave ambush. I did a search for a thread related to this movie and came up empty handed, so here goes. It was released in north america in an edited version as the seven brothers meet dracula.
Along with van helsing, is hsi ching and the help of the seven siblings, six brothers and one sister to defeat. I just received the anchor bay hammer collection vhs copy of this in the mail the other day. Along with van helsing, is hsi ching and the help of the seven siblings, six brothers and one sister to defeat the 7 golden vampires and the army of the undead. The legend of the 7 golden vampires film tv tropes. The two genres were combined for this movie in what has to be a first. Legend of the seven golden vampires classic horror film board.
Legend of the seven golden vampires page 4 classic horror. Jun 06, 2010 legend of 7 golden vampires 1974 wikipedia. The short version eliminates whole dialogue sections e. Of course in todays world, there are lots of hybrid types of movies, but at the time it was very unusual. Rent legend of the 7 golden vampires 1979 on dvd and blu. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the legend of the 7 golden vampires near you. 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. He needs dracula to restore their power and the vampire takes kahs body and image. Jun 12, 2014 legend of the seven golden vampires is a hoot. As far as star power went, the movie boasted the incomparable peter cushing as dr. The legend of the 7 golden vampires cast and crew fandango. Some of this awkwardness is noticeable in the final product, yet at the same time, the odd juxtaposition of styles has made legend of the 7 golden vampires a true cult film.
The soundtrack features music composed by james bernard for the 1974 horror film directed by roy ward baker the vampire lovers, quatermass and the pit, starring peter cushing as van helsing, julie ege, david chiang, robin stewart, shen chan and. 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. Rent legend of the 7 golden vampires 1979 starring peter cushing and david chiang on dvd and bluray. Sep 02, 2016 the legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 aka the seven brothers meet dracula, dracula and the 7 golden vampires. 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.
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 1974 the movie. The legend of the seven golden vampires, directed by roy ward baker and cheh chang, is a rare crossbreed of a movie. Frankenstein created womanthe legend of the 7 golden vampires. The legend of ancient china side one 1 6side two 716 7. Leyland fights over a knife with one of leung hons mooks, and stabs the guy. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 aka the seven brothers meet dracula, dracula and the 7 golden vampires. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 changes the. Legend of the 7 golden vampires, the soundtrack details. Legend of the 7 seven golden vampires dvd 1974 peter cushing.
The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 silver emulsion. By the time of the legend of the 7 golden vampires in 1974 hammer studios was dying. Oct 16, 2009 by the time of the legend of the 7 golden vampires in 1974 hammer studios was dying. In 19thcentury china, a group of evildoers known as the seven golden. 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. Released in 1974 in the uk only as a new spin on the soundtrack album, the peter cushing narrated the legend of the 7 golden vampires made its brief appearance in the racks of record stores and then vanished. 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. The final vampire picture produced by hammer film productions saw the studio going out with neither a bang nor a whimper, but a comic sproing noise.
Peter cushing, david chiang, julie ege, robin stewart, szu shih, john forbesrobertson, robert hanna, shen chan, james ma, fong lah ann. More interesting is legend of the seven golden vampires, the last in the hammer series of dracula movies. The legend of the 7 golden vampires trivia tv tropes. 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 legend of the 7 golden vampires original soundtrack. At least that is the sound it makes in my head, because wow is the legend of the 7 golden vampires ever a weird little movie. 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. Sedmoro brace srecu draculu je britanskohongkonski igrani film snimljen 1974. 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.
In this one, dracula goes east to empower and control the seven golden vampires, a septet of halfdecayed beings who have terrorizing a remote chinese village. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 trailer youtube. Starring peter cushing, david chiang, robin stewart, julie ege, shih szu, chan shen, lau karwing, huang peichih, john forbesrobertson, tino wong cheung, james ma chimsi, wynn lau chunfai, ho keicheong, wang hanchen, lau wailing, robert hanna. 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. The version entitled the seven brothers meet dracula runs 72m versus the 89m of the original legend of the seven golden vampires. T he legend of the 7 golden vampires was a 1974 horror film produced by hammer studios and shaw brothers studio. The legend of the 7 golden vampires is a really enjoyable but bizarre mix of genres which sometimes meshes, sometimes doesnt.
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. Legend of the 7 golden vampires the aka the 7 brothers meet. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 r 06011979 us action, horror 1h 25m user score. Legend of the seven golden vampires page 4 classic.
Peter cushing has returned to stop the evils of draculaplayed by john forbesrobinson, but this time in a remote chinese village of ping kuei. Legend of the 7 golden vampires the aka the 7 brothers. Legend of the 7 golden vampires, the film poster gallery. The scene at the start, where john forbes robertson who plays dracula, to be really hysterical. Presented with the support of hong kong economic and trade office new york and celestial. Feb 02, 2016 the legend of the seven golden vampires final vampire is killed official clip. Not just weird in the final vampire picture produced by the. However the student hsi ching meets van helsing at home and tells that. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 alternate. 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. 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.
Legend of the seven golden vampires classic horror film. Unavailable on vinyl for over 40 years and now a real collectors itemdust bug have unearthed this second gem of a release to. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 directed by. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 directed by roy. The legend of the 7 golden vampires 1974 soundtrack. Hammer films, famous for its lush, lavish, and gothic horror flicks, teamed up with the shaw brothers, famous for their hong kong kungfu action flicks.
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