He

does say, like, you brought me back by my will.

So there's almost a suggestion that all of this was preordained by Dracula himself.

This whole thing was, he waited 100 years to come back and kill who I guess is the last of Van Helsing's line, I guess.

They never say that, but I guess.

They never say that, so.

But again, it's another parallel to Taste the Blood of Dracula, where Dracula gets his modus operandi, is he always gets his revenge on those people who've wronged him, which in this case, somebody who've wronged him in a legit way, I guess, a hundred years ago.

It's like, I don't know, it wasn't, I don't mean, it wasn't, didn't quite hit it that far.

yeah yeah they took down the whole graveyard they just took them all there's like just in case we need them we'll just take all the crosses you know

yeah i guess but they took from one particular cross this big giant one yeah that's like big enough to put jim caviezel on in passion of the christ but like man Take it off.

And apparently, in addition to his many talents, the hunchback Gros is also a master forger.

And he forges And he forges a sword, a small kind of sword, from this huge hunk of metal, of steel, which apparently is the thing, is if you take a cross made of steel and make it into a weapon, you can kill the vampires, which, cool, that's new, which tells me also this species of vampire must be fairly new because humanity wasn't making steel until fairly recently in ancient history.

They didn't start doing that until...

Gosh, steel, I don't think, was invented until the Roman age, I think.

Yeah, the Roman Empire, I think, had steel.

They actually spend a lot of time redoing them.

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... who s- who, uh, who, uh, stick up a ca- stick up a carriage.

And this beautiful blonde is in it, and her father.

And then up on the hill is Wilhelm Kastner, who is, uh, Frankenstein's bud.

Uh, he's blonde and handsome, whereas, uh, whereas, whereas Ralph Bates is kind of, you know, kind of dour-looking and roguish.

But also he got long, sh- you know, jowl-length, dark, page boy kind of haircut.

Uh, and he's just like...

Yeah

This one now made me feel like, oh, maybe, maybe...

Maybe, yes.

Maybe this was Scars of Dracula 1.0, and then they eventually made a, well, not a better script.

I think this has a better script than Scars of Dracula, actually.

I wish they had done this instead of Scars of Dracula scripts.

It would have been much more interesting.

But anyway, no, I feel like, oh, and I know you've already spoiled the ending, but I feel like before we go on spoiling this movie, we should just say to people out there who might be confused that, and because this movie like you said is fairly obscure there might be people out there who have never seen this and i enjoyed the heck out of this so much because i went in cold the only thing i knew was that cool opening well in fact i was i wasn't even 100 sure that this was the kiss of the vampire which is funny because the poster says just kiss of the vampire not the kiss of the vampire so and i think in the movie it even says kiss of the vampire so it's It's only on IMDb, I think is it called, The Kiss of the Vampire.

You're absolutely right.

Not always just a side female character in the story.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, and then at one point we're introduced to, like, the crazy drunk of the, what was his name? Mad Peter.

Mad Peter, oh yes.

Mad Peter, like, okay, so I was going to stay here.

Part of my delight in this movie is that there were not one, not two, but three, maybe four, but definitely three people really effective and intense jump scares in this movie.

This is a movie made in 1966.

Not thinking you're going to do all this other crazy stuff.

i'm just trying to like say like why it works and why it doesn't but yeah i don't think it works at all because like here's the thing

it's like What you failed to mention is, that's okay, you probably just didn't remember.

It's not like he decided to enter her room.

He's just passing by.

He would have just walked straight by her room if it weren't for the fact that the door was open a little bit.

And that's not Anna's fault.

I'm not saying she asked for it.

What do you think about how that actually works out for this story?

What about you, Thomas?

Well, Mr. Kevin Uphowers, I'm going to come to a similar camp with Dave Watkins, actually, where I had that same box set.

But Scars of Dracula was not on there.

In fact, I first heard about this movie from...

the great Mr. James Rolfe, who did his Cinemassacre's Monster Madness in one year, he did on YouTube his Hammerthon, and he did a review of all the Hammer Draculas and all the Hammer Frankensteins all at once over Halloween.

I don't remember which year he did it, but he did come to Scars of Dracula, and he did mention that of all of the Hammer Draculas, this was probably the hardest to find.

It even has, at the time, it had an out-of-print DVD that was chock-full of extras, including this big, long featurette called The World of Christopher Lee that was literally just Christopher Lee doing basically like an early 2000s version of MTV Cribs, where he's walking around just showing you his house and all his stuff and memorabilia from his movies and stuff.

I

voice.Yeah, yeah

... you know, and that presence that he brings with it.

Yeah.

Uh, uh, but before we, before we get too much into it though, I wanna say like, um, I mean, f- we should probably talk about the people that made this movie, because this movie was different in the type, the people they had behind the scenes.

Um, aside from Anthony Hinds, who's the writer of this movie.

He wrote the, he wrote under the pseudonym of John Elder.

Uh, John Elder was pretty much the pseudonym for, uh, anytime Anthony Hinds, who was the producer, decided to write something.

Yeah