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Also Known As

Dracula '72 (UK) (working title)
Dracula Chases the Mini Girls (UK) (working title)
Dracula Chelsea '72 (UK) (working title)
Dracula Today

Synopsis

Dracula A.D. 1972 is the seventh film in Hammer's Dracula series, and the sixth film to star Christopher Lee in the title role.

Plot

Dracula is destroyed in a confrontation with Van Helsing in 1872. One hundred years later Johnny Alucard, a teenage descendant of one of Dracula's disciples, performs a black magic ceremony in the abandoned, deconsecrated St Bartholomew's church and restores Dracula to life. Dracula builds up a new horde of disciples from amongst Alucard's swinging teen friends, one of whom is Jessica Van Helsing, grand-daughter of Lorrimer Van Helsing, the current descendant of Dracula's old nemesis and also a vampire hunter. As Lorrimer is drawn into the fight, Dracula plans to take his revenge on the Van Helsing family by turning Jessica into a vampire.

Release dates

Sweden 28 August 1972
UK 27 September 1972
USA 17 November 1972
Norway 14 December 1972

Trivia

Christopher Neame
and Stephanie Beacham
would later be reunited in the American Soap Opera, Dynasty.
The rock group Stoneground were a late replacement for The Faces.
''The opening sequence set in 1872 ( the best part of the film) does not arise from the previous film Scars of Dracula
but is completely new and not part of any chronology.

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