tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post114885185509456599..comments2024-03-29T01:33:56.188-07:00Comments on Taliesin meets the vampires: The Brides of Dracula - reviewTaliesin_ttlghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10105263634442191232noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-77491716355829409332016-08-21T10:37:30.856-07:002016-08-21T10:37:30.856-07:00It was this film that cemented Peter Cushing's...It was this film that cemented Peter Cushing's Van Helsing as my all time favorite version of the character in any medium, even above Stoker's novel. Cushing plays the Professor as a kindly, soft-spoken academic, but then he goes full badass when vampires are around! The scene where he gets bitten and burns out the infection is very well done. That the unholy remnants of the pagan vampire cult are being wiped out by, essentially, a gentle bookworm seems fitting: modern science vs. ancient evil. Stephen Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05244078116779511353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-1149074946191777952006-05-31T04:29:00.000-07:002006-05-31T04:29:00.000-07:00Thanks Mark.The silver is a bit of a stretch, it w...Thanks Mark.<BR/><BR/>The silver is a bit of a stretch, it was probably an oversight... however silver is efinitely listed as a deterant much later in the cycleTaliesin_ttlghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10105263634442191232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23449634.post-1148857102753871872006-05-28T15:58:00.000-07:002006-05-28T15:58:00.000-07:00I like the silver shackles theory.That's an intere...I like the silver shackles theory.<BR/><BR/>That's an interesting bit of history about the unused ending featuring a plague of bats (later to show up in <I>Kiss of the Vampire</I>). I did not know that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com