Scars of Dracula

Christopher Lee returns in Hammer’s most savage vision of the Count.

Christopher Lee dons the cloak of Count Dracula for the fifth time in Roy Ward Baker’s (Quatermass and the Pit) Scars of Dracula — a chilling chapter that stands as the most violent and blood-soaked entry in Hammer’s legendary vampire saga.

Resurrected when a bat drips fresh blood onto his decaying remains, the Count rises once more to unleash a reign of terror upon the living.

When young Paul (Christopher Matthews) disappears under mysterious circumstances, his brother Simon (Dennis Waterman) and Simon’s fiancée Sarah (Jenny Hanley) set out to find him — their desperate search leading them inevitably to the forbidding castle of the Prince of Darkness himself.

Stylishly directed and atmospherically scored, Scars of Dracula delivers gothic horror at its most unrestrained — a testament to Hammer’s signature blend of elegance, menace, and blood-curdling spectacle.