#Frankenstein reboot‚ the p woeful Horror of Frankenstein‚ which hasn't helped its reputation. but it's ok? not great by any means but not

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absolutely chaotic in terms of script and plotting‚ with a first act that feels like the end of a different film entirely (the angry mob#burn down the castle in the first 15 minutes! and then it's not really a plot point after that!). Lee was late to agree to returning‚ so#this was written as a potential reboot with another actor; it also had the misfortune to be packaged in a double deal with Hammer's#Frankenstein reboot‚ the p woeful Horror of Frankenstein‚ which hasn't helped its reputation. but it's ok? not great by any means but not#quite as bad as its reputation either. Lee wrote and spoke very dimly of this film but he's actually giving it everything on camera and he#gets used to his strengths (he probably has more dialogue here than in the rest of the Hammer Draculas combined). Stoker purists will enjoy#little details from the book (Drac scampers around the castle walls at last) and for the rest of us there's Pat Troughton cosplaying as a#werewolf as Drac man's right hand arm Klove. he's pretty wonderful (tunelessly whistling and happily bobbing around as he butchers and#dismembers the corpse of an unfortunate victim) but it made me truly insane in the brain when i did the maths and realised this was barely#a year after he finished work on DW; he looks a decade older‚ at least. James Bernard's score is absolutely brilliant‚ too among his best

Scars of Dracula (1970)

"You must give me time to prepare you for what we both have to do."

"Both?"

"Yes, both of us. Without my guidance, you'd never survive the ordeal; without your courage, I could not even attempt it."