Dracula

The film is based on the novel by Bram Stoker, "Dracula" (Dracula, 1897).

In the US the film in hire under the name "Horror of Dracula" to avoid confusion with the 1931 film.

The film is a colour remake of the eponymous 1931 film.

When in 1958 the film was released in the UK in a shortened version, he was given the X rating, while directing the reissue, released in 2007, was given a rating of 12A.

The scene in which the skin of a vampire disintegrating into dust, was made frame by frame by overlaying the red makeup on the face of the actor Christopher Lee, as well as a thin layer of wax, which was selected in accordance with a normal skin tone. In the frame when the skin peel off with the wax fingers, you notice the marking under it.

At the end of the film on the floor of the castle is shown inlaid with signs of the zodiac circle, which has several quotes in Latin and Greek. Inside the circle there is a quote from the book "the Odyssey" by Homer, book 18,136-7. On the outside of the circle written quotation in Latin of Hesiod in the interpretation of Bartolomeo Anglico (the Nature of things, book 8, Chapter 2).

For many years film historians have pointed to the fact that the most complete version of the film was at the Japanese box office in 1958. Attempts to find the mythical "Japanese version" was sterile. But in September 2011, Hammer announced that fragments of a Japanese film print was found in the "National film center" in Tokyo. The first five rolls of film were destroyed during a fire in 1984, but the last four have survived. These tapes with a total duration of 36 minutes include two "extended" scenes, one of which is the opening of the key frames of a movie. For example, a full scene of Dracula's attack on Mina, who was cut by the censors from the British and American versions, in view of its sexual frankness, not valid for films of those years.