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Friday Night Frights!: ‘Dracula A.D. 1972’ & ‘The Satanic Rites of Dracula’

MOVIES!, Beginning at 6 p.m.

— Je Pfeier

Tonight’s Friday Night Frights! double feature on MOVIES! brings you the final two of the famed horror productions from Britain’s Hammer Studios that boasted memorable onscreen pairings between legends Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as, respectively, Count Dracula and his vampire-hunting nemesis Van Helsing. First up is Dracula

A.D. 1972 (pictured) (1972), which brought Lee and Cushing back together in these roles for the first time since Hammer’s original Dracula in 1958 and marked Cushing’s return to the role of Van Helsing for the first time since 1960’s The Brides of Dracula (which did not actually feature an onscreen appearance from Dracula). Updating the previous productions’ Victorian-era settings to swinging, psychedelic early-1970s London, the film finds Lee’s bloodsucker being brought back to life and preying on a group of young partygoers, one of whom is a descendant of Van Helsing’s. Hammer continued Dracula A.D. 1972’s modern setting, and brought back many of its characters, for Lee and Cushing’s third and final Dracula/van Helsing team-up — 1973’s The Satanic Rites

of Dracula, which concludes tonight’s double feature. This movie also marked Lee’s final appearance as Dracula, while Cushing would appear once more as Van Helsing in Hammer’s last Dracula production, 1974’s The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires.

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