Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Smoreni Zmaj Although it's Hammer movie about Dracula, with Christopher Lee in the lead role, this is not a horror but a conspiracy crime thriller. Nevertheless, despite the original approach to the topic, an interesting idea and a good cast, the film is quite boring.5/10

Rainey Dawn Just outside of London there is a group that has preformed the Satanic Rites in order to conjure up their Lord Dracula. They are successful and when people turn up dead Scotland Yard police investigate, they suspect vampirism and call in Prof. van Helsing for help. Helsing easily figures out that it is Dracula and that the Count is plotting to use a virus to destroy life on planet Earth. Is it Dracula's death wish to destroy himself completely? Yes 'Satanic Rites' is a good follow-up to 'Dracula A.D. 1972'. We get to see more of Prof. van Helsing in this installment of the Lee Dracula series.The plot/story maybe a bit off the mark for some viewers but overall the film is a good vampire film.8.5/10

Prichards12345 Desperation of a series in its death throes, or perhaps just an inventive entry in Hammer's Dracula series that was misunderstood? Well, perhaps The Satanic Rites of Dracula is a little of both. A much better movie than the comically bad Dracula A.D. 1972, this is still, when one weighs it up, inferior to the early Hammer Draculas and 70s audiences must have had a struggle to connect to it's mixture of Vampirism, Satanism and James Bondery, with a good kicking given out to property speculators to boot! Alan Gibson directs with a sure hand, and every sequence is well executed - particularly the cellar full of female vampires section. And of course, there is always Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee to pep things up as Van Helsing and his eternal enemy Count Dracula. There's a rather splendid stand-off scene between the two, when Cushing confronts the property tycoon D.D. Dehham, and one can only wish there was more of this kind of stuff. Lee adopts a splendid Lugosi-like accent here, and Cushing is all steely resolve.They are helped by an agreeably quivering Freddie Jones, William Franklyn - who dies in almost exactly the same way he does in Hammer's Quatermass II - and Joanna Lumley. Michael Coles also returns as the longest-haired police inspector in British movies, and this time out is given somewhat better dialogue than he was in A.D. 72.The plot of course, has a few flaws - why have a sprinkler system where the vampires sleep? When you don't have one where a house-gutting fire later breaks out! On the whole this is a lively and quirky film, with Dracula coming off like a Batman super villain rather than the King Of Vampires, out to infect everyone on Earth with a virulent form of bubonic plague. It's a fun and fast moving affair. And we can saviour Van Helsing against Dracula one last time.

DarthVoorhees I found a lot to enjoy in 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula'. It's reputation of mediocrity is undeserved because this film really delivers what it's audience wants Cushing and Lee in finest form. While not an exquisite example of the horror film 'Rites' has an abundance of wonderful cheese that actually has some really funny twists on a Dracula series that sometimes had a lot of trouble defining what it really wanted to be.I'm a huge Christopher Lee fan but I've always found his Dracula pictures to be something of a mixed ordeal. I can definitely see and feel Lee's frustration with the character because Dracula is seldom given anything truly interesting to say or do. In the worst moments of Hammer's Dracula films Dracula serves as nothing more than a boogeyman and this I find is unacceptable when you have a talent like Lee and the most poetic horror character ever conceived. 'Rites' gives Dracula the most mythos and motive he has ever been given in a Hammer picture. Dracula has a method to his madness and that is truly saying something here. Lee actually has more than one page of dialogue to express his motives and hate, we get to know Dracula as a sick being with a deep burning hate for mankind rather than the animal lesser Hammer films tend to portray him as. Most importantly though we have Peter Cushing as Van Helsing who is finally able to give Dracula an adversary to play off of. A great deal of 'Rites' is nothing more than exposition in between bizarre imagery. Director Alan Gibson is a more than competent exploration director. The scenes of satanic orgies are fun in that they really do bring the audience to the realm of the strange but odd imagery is not enough to sustain a picture. Peter Cushing does that.The best entries in this series are the ones with Cushing. Peter Cushing was a special actor because he loves the material that is written. There is a great sense of urgency and passion in Cushing's delivery that even someone who knows the vampire mythos by heart is never bored. It's like watching a great singer go through their greatest hits. Peter Cushing was one of the all time great horror stars and 'Satanic Rites' is one of his best performances.Even more so than 'Dracula AD 1972' 'Rites' has a hell of a good time playing with the 70's era London. I love that Dracula sees corporate London and MP's as his tools of destruction. I probably liked this film a great deal more than '1972' because it isn't drenched in the kind of novelty of the time and because of this I admire the style and settings a heck of a lot more. This is the Hammer Dracula to check out and my personal favorite of the series. It delivers Lee's Dracula and Cushing's Van Helsing in a fun looking story with actual stakes...