The film opens with a prologue set in Transylvania in 1804, in which a Chinese vampire, Kah, resurrects Count Dracula and begs him to help restore the power of his undead cult in his region of China. Dracula responds by taking over the body of Kah and, in his new form, he sets off to take control himself. The action then moves forward to 1904 and to Chung King, where Dracula now holds the inhabitants of a remote village in a grip of terror. Van Helsing, lecturing in China, hears of the presence of his old enemy and, with the help of a wealthy widow and a family of martial arts experts, decides to confront him again…..
Production Details
A Hammer/Shaw production presented by Michael Carreras and Run Run Shaw and distributed by Warner Brothers copyright MCMLXXlV Hammer Film Productions Limited/Shaw Productions (HK) Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
Based on characters created by Bram Stoker
Made entirely on location in Hong Kong
Colour 89 mins Panavision
Filming Began: 22nd October 1973
UK Release: 29th August 1974
Studio:
Shaw Brothers Studios, Hong Kong
Location:
Hong Kong
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Cast & Crew
Cast & Crew – Verified complete
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Art Director | Johnson Tsau | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Assistant Director | Erh Feng | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Assistant Director | Godfrey Ho | 26 | 1948 | 01.01.1948 | 76 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Assistant Editor | Larry Richardson | 28 | 23 May 1946 | 23.05.1946 | 78 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Assistant Producer | Christopher Carreras | 24 | 1950 | 01.01.1950 | 74 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Boom Operator | Tommy Staples | 1983 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Camera Operator | Roy Ford | 39 | 1935 | 10 Dec 2008 | 73 | 5 | 5 | ||
Composer | James Bernard | 48 | 20 Sep 1925 | 12 Jul 2001 | 75 | 25 | 1 | 26 | |
Continuity | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/renee-glynne/# | 48 | 3 Aug 1926 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 41 | 3 | 44 | |
Costumes | Liu Chi-Yu | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Director | Roy Ward Baker | 57 | 19 Dec 1916 | 5 Oct 2010 | 93 | 8 | 8 | ||
Director | Cheh Chang | 51 | 10 Feb 1923 | 22 Jun 2002 | 79 | 1 | 1 | ||
Director of Photography | John Wilcox BSc | 69 | 7 May 1905 | 31 May 1979 | 74 | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
Directors of Photography | Roy Ford | 39 | 1935 | 10 Dec 2008 | 73 | 5 | 5 | ||
Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/chris-barnes/# | 36 | 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 | 13 | 34 | |
Executive Producer | Run Run Shaw | 66 | 23 Nov 1907 | 7 Jan 2014 | 106 | 1 | 1 | ||
Executive Producer | Runme Shaw | 73 | 1901 | 2 Mar 1985 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Floor Manager | Peng Cheng | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Focus Puller | Keith Jones | 10 May 2010 | 3 | 3 | |||||
Hairdresser | Peng Yen-Lien | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Make-up | Wu Hsu Ching | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Martial Arts Sequences | Liu Chia-Liang | 38 | 1 Aug 1936 | 25 Jun 2013 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Martial Arts Sequences | Tang Chia | 37 | 7 Jan 1937 | 7.01.1937 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 66 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Presenter | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/micheal-carreras/# | 47 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 98 | 9 | 107 | |
Producer | Vee King Shaw | 30 | 25 Jun 1944 | 13 Jul 2017 | 73 | 2 | 2 | ||
Producer | Don Houghton | 44 | 2 Feb 1930 | 2 Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 | 20 | ||
Production Manager | Chua Lam | 33 | 1941 | 01.01.1941 | 83 | 2 | 2 | ||
Production Secretary | Jean Walter | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Props Master | Li Wu | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Screenplay | Don Houghton | 44 | 2 Feb 1930 | 2 Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 | 20 | ||
Sound Editor | Frank Goulding | 1991 | 4 | 4 | |||||
Sound Maintenance | Dan Grimmel | 59 | 25 Jun 1915 | 1985 | 69 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Sound Recordist | Les Hammond | 66 | 6 Jun 1908 | 8 | 8 | ||||
Special Effects | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/les-bowie/# | 60 | 10 Nov 1913 | 27 Jan 1979 | 65 | 30 | 13 | 43 | |
Unit Manager | Shen Chung | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
British Consul | Robert Hanna | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Count Dracula (voice) | David de Keyser | 47 | 22 Aug 1927 | 20 Feb 2021 | 93 | 3 | 3 | ||
Doomed Rickshaw man | Te-Chaing Teng | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Dracula | John Forbes-Robertson | 46 | 10 May 1928 | 14 May 2008 | 77 | 2 | 2 | ||
Hsi Ching | David Chiang | 27 | 29 Jun 1947 | 29.06.1947 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hsi Hong | Hui-Ling Liu | 23 | 17 Mar 1951 | 17.03.1951 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hsi Kwei | Liu Chia Yung | 30 | 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 80 | 2 | 2 | ||
Hsi San | Chen Tien Loong | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Hsi Sung | Fong Ko Anh | 25 | 12 Sep 1948 | 2 Mar 2016 | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hsi Ta | James Ma | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Kah | Chan Shen | 34 | 11 Mar 1940 | 26 Apr 1984 | 44 | 1 | 1 | ||
Leung Hon | Wong Han Chan | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Leyland Van Helsing | Robin Stewart | 27 | 9 Oct 1946 | 22 Nov 2015 | 69 | 1 | 1 | ||
Liangs cohort | Wai Lo | 71 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Mai Kwei | Shih Szu | 20 | 24 Oct 1953 | 24.10.1953 | 71 | 1 | 1 | ||
Professor Lawrence Van Helsing | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/peter-cushing/# | 61 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 | 1 | 25 | |
Vanessa Buren | Julie Ege | 30 | 12 Nov 1943 | 29 Apr 2008 | 64 | 2 | 2 | ||
With | Chi-Chang Ho | 2 | 2 | ||||||
With | Chuan Chen | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Chun Fai Lau | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Ha Huang | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Hoi-Sang Lee | 2 | 2 | ||||||
With | Hsia Hsu | 2 | 2 | ||||||
With | Jack Long | 2 | 2 | ||||||
With | Pei-Chi Huang | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Po-Chen Yang | 2 | 2 |
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Footnotes
With the popularity in the West of the Bruce Lee films and the television series Kung Fu, starring David Carradine, a tie-in with Hong Kong’s most successful film maker Run Run Shaw must have seemed a perfect combination to Michael Carreras. Unfortunately, however, it proved otherwise and cinemagoers, now being weaned on the more sophisticated delights of films like The Exorcist, stayed away in droves!
There was no way that Hammer would be able to persuade Christopher Lee to don the black cape in this one, so the role of Dracula passed to John Forbes- Robertson, who had played the mysterious Man in Black in The Vampire Lovers (1970).