| And
the blood turned red. Terence Fisher, Hammer’s master, injects colour
into the blood drunk by the legendary count. Lugosi and Browning’s
black and white become blood red, passion red, death red, desire red,
life red. Christopher Lee creates a more unbalanced, more passionate,
more visceral Dracula than the Hungarian (even though he doesn’t
actually turn into a real Dracula, like Lugosi). Peter Cushing, as always,
is van Helsing, here in his first adventure, in his first confrontation
with the noble Transylvanian, in his first victory which is finally always
a defeat, because the count returns, he doesn’t die, there have
to be more films, or if it’s not the count it’s his son, his
daughter... |
