Dracula, Has Risen from the Grave (1968)

Poster of the Week -Halloween Edition!-- After a long, long, unexplainable and wicked hiatus, the poster returns with a vampire cape spinning flourish. Dracula Has Risen From the Grave was the third Hammer Dracula released (not counting Brides of Dracula, in which Dracula and Christopher Lee did not appear), made a full ten years after Horror of Dracula. This really surprised me. I had always thought there were a lot more, oddly enough. Anyway, it's a fun movie of its type, where Dracula is resurrected, kills some people, and is then killed himself, impaled on a giant golden cross, only to be resurrected again in the next movie. Nothing spectacular, to say the least, but these Hammer films were a mainstay on Halloween TV when I was younger, and an intrinsic part of the season as the Charlie Brown Christmas was/is during that holiday's televisual festival. Check out the heavy-duty staking scene from DHRFTG (as the fans like to dub it) here. Read and see more of lead actress Veronica Carlson here. And you've never seen Dracula in such a rage as in this film's UK poster art, which you can see in a larger image by clicking on the image on the left. 184K