Film Review - The Scars of Dracula

The last of Hammer's period Dracula films before the ill-advised switch to the present day, Scars of Dracula makes some notable attempts to revitalise the series. Christopher Lee has his largest role to date and Dracula has a few 'new' abilities - the ability to scale walls like a spider being the best; this was in Bram Stoker's original novel but then largely ignored until suddenly appearing in two films in the same year - the other being Jesus Franco's straight adaptation of the book, also starring Lee in the title role.