Word: draculae
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...Dracula lives! In the image of late actor Bela Lugosi, of course. A Los Angeles superior court has ruled that even though Lugosi died in 1956, the role of the Transylvanian night person is so thoroughly identified with him that his widow, Hope, 52, and his son, Bela George Lugosi, 34, are entitled to share in the money Universal Pictures has made from the licensing of Dracula games, shirts, masks and other horrors fashioned in the Lugosi image...
...films that have made Hammer, in its words, "accepted as a branded product all over the world" are largely girl-and-ghoul flicks and caveman epics, with titles like Countess Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, One Million Years B.C. and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb. Each is turned out on a near-strangulation budget and schedule ($500,000 and 25 shooting days). The plots, usually lifted from some Victorian romancer like Bram Stoker or Sheridan Le Fanu, are as creaky as the doors of Castle Dracula. The starlets who flit through prehistoric landscapes or quaint Transylvanian villages...
...London's Hammersmith area (the source of the name Hammer). His Spanish-born father established the chain in the 1920s; today his son Michael, 44, carries on the family tradition by serving as Hammer's executive producer. "Frankenstein never gave anyone bad ideas," says Sir James. "Dracula could never be held responsible for a crime wave...
Hughes, and such solid character actors as Peter Gushing (the house Doctor Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes) and Christopher Lee (Dracula, the Frankenstein monster, Fu Manchu...
Ever since Bela Lugosi went to bat in Dracula, the vampire has been a favorite of American horror-movie cultists. But even they will find little nourishment in Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Technology is partly to blame. Once electric lights are substituted for candles, the ghosts no longer hold sway; a car is no proper substitute for the creaky carriage and pair. The plot, however, is a lineal descendant of the Bram Stoker original...