Scars of Dracula

Count Dracula has returned from the dead and settled into a castle near a village whose residents live in fear of him and his bloodthirsty bats. A young man named Simon Carlson and his girlfriend Sarah arrive in the area looking for Simon's missing brother Paul, who was last seen there, but the villagers greet the strangers with hostility. Their search leads them to the count's castle, where the disappearance is tied to Dracula himself, and Simon finds himself confronting the vampire directly.

Scars of Dracula is a British horror film from Hammer Film Productions, released in 1970 and running 96 minutes. It was directed by Roy Ward Baker, arriving in the same year as his The Vampire Lovers and sitting between that film and Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde in a run of horror titles he made in the early 1970s. Anthony Hinds wrote the screenplay and Aida Young produced. Christopher Lee plays Dracula, with Dennis Waterman as Simon, Jenny Hanley as Sarah, Christopher Matthews as Paul, Patrick Troughton as Klove and Michael Gwynn as the priest.

Audience response has been moderate, with a rating of 6.1 from around 7,200 votes on IMDb and 5.9 from roughly 200 votes on TMDB. A smaller critics' rating of 6.6 from 12 reviews places it somewhat above those audience scores.