If all your after is a cliché B horror movie then at least the movie is a good example as it's an entertaining 80-odd minutes, just not one that's worth shouting about...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2021

While not the best in Hammer's repertoire, Dracula: Prince of Darkness is perhaps the perfect Hammer Horror film, which signaled Lee's return to his most iconic role, had some terrific performances, and lived and died by some excellent direction.

| Jun 19, 2019

It's an effective bit of Hammer horror, boasting the expected atmospherics, period trappings, literary conceits and, yes, buxom beauties.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 21, 2019

This is a mean, violent picture.

| Jul 24, 2018

This is a text-book example of top-grade ghoulish horror from Hammer's golden era.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2016

Apart from one or two welcome innovations -- notably the sort of Instant Vampire recipe by which Dracula is resuscitated, and his final destruction by drowning rather than by the usual procedures -- this is the same old hash as before.

| Oct 18, 2016

Lee's red-eyed stare is suitably baleful and the fangs slightly more convincing than in the original.

| Oct 18, 2016

[A] routine scare production from Hammer.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2016

Once Dracula is up and about, the script can't find much for him to do, but there are spirited performances from Shelley, as an uptight bourgeois who becomes a sensual vampire hoyden, and Kier, as a gun-toting monk who fills in for Van Helsing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2012

Average made Hammer horror pic about Dracula's resurrection.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 2, 2010

The thrills do not arise sufficiently smooth out of atmosphere.

| Mar 26, 2009

DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS is probably Hammer’s last great Dracula film... a solid, sometimes imaginative effort that remains exciting and entertaining even after its best ideas have run out.

| Nov 25, 2008

Perhaps Hammer's most effectively horrific Dracula movie.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 12, 2008

Full of the sensual mysteriousness which Hammer used to achieve so effortlessly during their long occupation of Bray Studios.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2005

The least effective Hammer horror film featuring Christopher Lee as the fly-by-night Count.

| Original Score: B- | May 3, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2003

Another Hammer vampire flick. About average for the series.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2002