Taste the Blood of Dracula

Taste the Blood of Dracula
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Sasdy
Screenplay byJohn Elder
Based onCount Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Produced byAida Young
StarringChristopher Lee
Linda Hayden
Geoffrey Keen
Gwen Watford
CinematographyArthur Grant
Edited byChris Barnes
Music byJames Bernard
Production
company
Distributed byWarner-Pathé (UK)
Warner Bros. Pictures (US & Worldwide)
Release date
  • 7 May 1970 (1970-05-07) (UK)
Running time
91 minutes (cut, US)
95 minutes (uncut, UK)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Taste the Blood of Dracula is a 1970 British supernatural horror film produced by Hammer Film Productions. Directed by Peter Sasdy from a script by Anthony Hinds, it is the fifth installment in Hammer's Dracula series, and the fourth to star Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, the titular vampire. The film also features Geoffrey Keen and Gwen Watford.

Taste the Blood of Dracula was released on a double bill alongside Crescendo, another Hammer production. It was followed by Scars of Dracula, also released in 1970.

The film reached number-one in the U.S. in November 1970, only as part of a double bill with Trog.[1]

  1. ^ "USA 1970 - (Page 45) - BOX OFFICE STORY".