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The Brides of Dracula is a 1960 British Hammer Horror film directed by Terence Fisher. It stars Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, Yvonne Monlaur, David Peel as a disciple of Count Dracula and Martita Hunt as his indulgent mother. It is a sequel of sorts to Hammer's original Dracula
(US: Horror of Dracula) (1958), although Christopher Lee did not return to the title role until Dracula, Prince of Darkness
in 1965.

Production

Shooting began for The Brides of Dracula on 16 January, 1960 at Bray Studios.

Trivia

The film's première showing was at the Odeon, Marble Arch on 6 July, 1960.
This is the only movie in the Hammer Horror series where the name of the original Dr. Van Helsing is mentioned — his business card and the initials on his medical bag identifies him as J. Van Helsing, suggesting that he is not Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing.

The ending was to have originally had the vampires destroyed by a swarm of bats. This ending either proved too expensive to stage and shoot or was rejected by Peter Cushing as being too magical for the Van Helsing character. The concept of this ending was used three years later for the climax of Hammer's Kiss of the Vampire.

Van Helsing mentions Dracula
only once in a brief line of dialogue.

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