Most likely CDFers here have these movies, but I thought I'd mention it anyway ...

I just ordered a Hammer DVD Set featuring Dracula, and it includes:
The Horror of Dracula
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Taste the Blood of Dracula
and
Dracula A.D. 1972

... for $10.99 --- pretty great price I think. I also tacked on a DVD copy of Hammer's The Mummy for about 7-8 bucks. If interested, I got the deal at Amazon.com (again, not hyping Amazon, but that's where the deal is).

Enjoy

Thanks for posting this, Uncle POE. Of the ones you listed, I only have Dracula A.D. 1972 so maybe I'll check out the others.

dracula 1972 is campy crap but i like it for its badness.

... and for Caroline Munro!

va va voom! yes uncle poe i agree!

I've never seen "Dracula 1972" but I've got all the other Hammer Dracula's on tape. I love the first Hammer one, "Horror of Dracula" -- that's one of those movies I never tire of.

Ever notice that the titles for Hammer Dracula movies are pretty interchangeable? It's like James Bond titles -- you can know all the movies by heart and still forget which title goes with which movie until you're actually watching it again. "Oh yeah, this is the one with the three rich guys who buy Drac's cape ... this is the one with the brave priest and the cowardly priest ... this is the one where the lothario brother disappears and the nice brother goes looking for him ..."

Funny point Gamera. I kind of thought I was the only one who got confused by the multiple "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" movies Hammer made. And it's true that it's similar to how you might not know which Bond flick you're watching until you're actually watching it! I wasn't as much into Hammer as a kid as I probably should have been. It's really only been in the past few years that I've gotten a true appreciation for them. And subsequently, I've been having a hard time sorting out just which movie is which.

Speaking of the appreciation of Hammer films, the funny thing is that as a kid I pretty much thought that Hammer only made the really gothic horror movies (those were the ones that just didn't usually do it for me as a kid). While I considered myself to be not such a fan of Hammer I had no idea that they also made a couple of my all-time favorite movies as a kid: "Quatermass and the Pit" ("Five Million Years to Earth"), and "The Abominable Snowman"!

Led Zeppelin song titles work the same way. I look at the back of a Led Zeppelin album and think, "I've never heard of any of these songs," but once I get the CD home and play it, I recognize every song. "Ohhhh, this one .... oh, sure, this one ..."

Hammer pictures were a bit too depressing for me as a kid. The AIP / Roger Corman fare from the same era usually had happier endings, whereas Hammer movies tended to end with most people dying. I only started to like Hammer in my 30's, because they were more realistic than the rubber monster stuff.

Another Hammer vampire movie that's worth finding is "Kiss of the Vampire." It doesn't contain Dracula but it's basically the same vibe as the Hammer Dracula films.

kiss of the vampire rocks. i love the vampire cult stuff.

You know what gamera? I'll bet that's exactly why Hammer stuff didn't click with me as a kid. Glad to hear I'm not the only one. I guess that as a 9- or 10-year-old a lot of the stuff in the Hammer movies just seemed too "grown up" for me. Maybe some of it was just a bit too heavy (or maybe I'm just thinking about it too much ). As I would sit down at 1:00 on a Saturday afternoon, all I wanted to see was a good monster war of some type. Style didn't mean all that much to me at that point. In a way I'm glad too--it made Hammer movies a whole new experience for me when I finally DID learn to appreciate them in more recent years.

For me, if the monster didn't tower over buildings, I usually wasn't interested.

Well, that was another reason we wouldn't have preferred Hammer as kids -- Hammer monsters never fought other monsters, they targetted only people. Hammer's Dracula never fought Hammer's Mummy or anything like that (yes, I realize the monsters were all Christopher Lee, but I'm sure they could've worked around that if they had wanted to).

Actually, even Universal's monsters only ever got one good fight ("Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man"). They appeared together in "House of Frankenstein" and "House of Dracula" but never bothered fighting each other in those movies.

Nope, if you want monster vs monster, you gotta go with the Japanese monster mash films.

LOL. I always wondered why Japan seemed unable to make a monster less than 50 feet tall.

I picked up a triple-feature dvd dirt cheap at CVS a couple years ago entitled 3 GREATEST HORROR CLASSICS OF ALL TIME with The Satanic Rites of Dracula/Carnival of Souls (love it!)/ and of course...Night of the Living Dead, which is on so many horror dvd compilations. It also came with a cd of spooky sound effects "Scary Sounds of the Night". I think I paid $1.50...good investment, if I do say so myself!

carnival of souls is great. make sure to check out the restored print with the full version.