Taste the Blood of Dracula

Three respectable Victorian gentlemen, bored with their comfortable lives, seek out forbidden thrills and fall in with Lord Courtley, a young aristocrat who has obtained relics belonging to Count Dracula. He leads them through a black mass in a deconsecrated church, intending to bring the vampire back from the dead. The ritual goes wrong and the three men turn on Courtley and kill him. Dracula rises again and takes revenge on the men who wronged his disciple, turning their own households against them.

Christopher Lee returns as the count, with Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Peter Sallis and Anthony Higgins among the cast. The film was directed by Peter Sasdy, who made it before Countess Dracula, and produced by Aida Young for Hammer Film Productions, with a screenplay by Anthony Hinds. It runs 95 minutes.

Taste the Blood of Dracula is a British horror picture from 1970, released in May of that year. It holds a rating of 6.3 out of 10 on IMDb from around 7,600 votes and 6.1 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller number of votes, placing it in the middle range of Hammer's output for its period. A critics' rating of 5.7 out of 10 from 13 reviews sits close to the audience scores, suggesting a similar reception on both sides.