

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires 1974
Directed by Roy Ward Baker, Chang Cheh
- Action, Horror
- 89 min
- R
Hammer Horror! Dragon Thrills! The First Kung Fu Horror Spectacular!
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
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- r96skon TMDB · May 20246/10
<em>'The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires'</em> is fairly fun. A relatively quick watch at just under 90 minutes, this movie smashes together martial arts and vampires. It's cool that it was filmed entirely on location in Hong Kong! Peter Cushing leads the cast strongly, with the likes of David Chiang, Julie Ege and Robin Stewart doing well behind him. I found the whole run time to be decently entertaining, nothing that blew my socks off or anything but I did suitably enjoy it - the ending scenes are particularly positive. The martial art parts seemed well done to me, though I am admittedly no expert when it comes to that. All in all, it's worth a watch in my opinion. Side-note, this is the second time in consecutive days that I'm ending my day with a movie featuring Dracula! Unintentionally so, I picked <em>'Renfield'</em> due its short run time and this (having known nothing about it) because of the eye-catching title; I didn't even acknowledge the vampire bit. Yet, I've still not seen the Christopher Lee original, gotta get to that!
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20235/10
"Prof. Van Helsing" (Peter Cushing) is lecturing a load of sceptical Chinese students about vampirism. They are so unconvinced that they walk out of his seminar. One, however, "Hsi Ching" (David Chiang) is convinced that the legendary Count has reincarnated near his local village where "Kah", the high priest of the legendary seven golden vampires has offered him his soul in return for the vampires restoring the dominant position of his priesthood. Short of funds, they manage to recruit the wealthy "Vanessa" (Julie Ege) and alongside his just as eager son "Leyland" (Robin Stewart) and seven young kung-fu experts all set off to this remote community where they will hopefully be in time to thwart the evil that is looming. When they arrive they discover, though, that's there also an army of the dead facing them - and things look ominous. Well, actually they don't really. The whole production is a bit cheap and cheerful, and save for the gravitas brought by Cushing, this would quickly be written off as a rather poorly written and acrobatically staged, lightweight Hammer feature that tries to integrate a different, Oriental, culture into an hackneyed format that can be fun to watch - you
Read the whole review on TMDB - Wuchakon TMDB · Oct 20215/10
_**Hammer & Drac go chopsocky**_ While lecturing in China in 1904, Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) learns of a village where vampirism has broken out and investigates it with his son (Robin Stewart) & team (David Chiang, Julie Ege and Szu Shih). It turns out that Dracula is hanging out there disguised as a Taoist high priest. “The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires” (1974) was Hammer’s final Dracula film wherein producers decided to experiment by hooking up with Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong for a mixed-genre flick that meshes Hammer’s Gothic horror with the kung fu craze of the early 70s. Hammer was already experimenting at the time by setting the previous two installments in the modern day. Whilst this is the least of the series, it can be somewhat entertaining if you roll with the comic book cheesiness and the martial arts fighting sequences, which resemble choreographed stage dances more than combat, sorta reminiscent of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video (lol). Highlights include the spirit of high adventure, the presence of Stewart as Van Helsing’s son, the beauty of Julie Ege & Szu Shih, the over-the-top energy and (dubbed) John Forbes-Robertson as Dracula, who looks like Chris
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Cast
- Peter CushingProfessor Lawrence Van Helsing
- David Chiang Da-WeiHsi Ching / Hsi's Ancestor
- Julie EgeVanessa Buren
- Robin StewartLeyland Van Helsing
- Shih SzuHsi Mai-Kwei
- John Forbes-RobertsonCount Dracula
- Robert HannaBritish Consul
- James Ma Chim-SiHsi Ta (Twin Axe)
- Chan ShenMonk Kah
- Lau Kar-WingHsi Kwei (Archer)
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- Roy Ward BakerDirector
- Chang ChehDirector
- Don HoughtonScreenplay
- John WilcoxDirector of Photography
- Roy FordDirector of Photography
- James BernardOriginal Music Composer
- Chris BarnesEditor
- Vee King ShawProducer
- Don HoughtonProducer
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