Post by Zone Fighter on Mar 20, 2007 13:58:45 GMT -8
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
Peter Cushing - Professor Van Helsing
David Chiang - Hsi Ching
Julie Ege - Vanessa Buren
Robin Stewart - Leyland Van Helsing
Shih Szu - Mai Kwei
John Forbes-Robertson - Count Dracula
Robert Hanna - British Consul
Chan Shen - Kah
James Ma - Hsi Ta
Feng Ko An - Hsi Sung
Liu Chia Yung - Hsi Kwei
Wong Han Chan - Leung Hon
Chen Tien Loong - Hsi San
A Coproduction of Hammer Studios and the Shaw Brothers. Western horror movie meets eastern martial arts film.
According to the IMdb Christopher Lee was offered the role of Dracula but turned it down.
A Chinese priest of a temple dedicated to evil travels to Transylvania to ask Count Dracula to journey to China to awaken the 7 Golden Vampires which are now asleep. Draucla takes possesion of Kah's body and makes the journey.
After his encounters witn the European vampire Professor Van Helsing journies to China to learn about the vampires of the east. There he joines 7 brothers and 1 sister on a quest to destroy the 7 vampires which have cursed a village for centuries. Accompaning Van Helsing and the 8 siblings are the professor's son Leyland and a wealthy European lady Vanessa Buren.
The film fooled me. I thought Leyland and Vanessa were going to be the romantic pair, then he met the chinese girl.
Van Helsing does not know that it was Dracula, in possession of the body of the wicked Kah, who awoke the 7 golden vampires.
The spoakes brother used his hands and feet as weapons. The twins use swords. One brother uses a spiked mace. Another uses twin axes. One uses a spear. One's an archer. The sister uses twin blades.
Being a Shaw Brothers film I knew the brothers would fall but it was still upseting when it happened. Seems like in any film with 7 warriors you can count on 5 getting killed.
The vampires wore gold masks, hence the name 7 Golden Vampires. They also wore bat shapped medalions from which they got their power.
Now I know the answer to the question, what are vampires in a non-Christian society afraid of. I would guess that a nation of atheists would be doomed if a vampire was loose in it, having no sacred symbols.
Asian vampires apparently to turn their victims into vampires with a single bite and killing the original vampire does not cure the victim.
I liked the movie. It was an interesting mix.
The DVD has The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and an audio version of the same story on side A. The audio feature has Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. Although its the same basic story the audio version has some differences. The brief conversation between Kah and Dracula is skipped over. The man with the two axes is described as a giant.
On side B is Seven Brothers Meet Dracula and a trailer. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is the original 89 minute film. Seven Brothers Meet Dracula is editted down to 72 minutes. According to the IMdb it is missing half of Draculas's dialogue and rearranges scenes out of their proper sequence. I only watched The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. I have interest in the butchered version.
Peter Cushing - Professor Van Helsing
David Chiang - Hsi Ching
Julie Ege - Vanessa Buren
Robin Stewart - Leyland Van Helsing
Shih Szu - Mai Kwei
John Forbes-Robertson - Count Dracula
Robert Hanna - British Consul
Chan Shen - Kah
James Ma - Hsi Ta
Feng Ko An - Hsi Sung
Liu Chia Yung - Hsi Kwei
Wong Han Chan - Leung Hon
Chen Tien Loong - Hsi San
A Coproduction of Hammer Studios and the Shaw Brothers. Western horror movie meets eastern martial arts film.
According to the IMdb Christopher Lee was offered the role of Dracula but turned it down.
A Chinese priest of a temple dedicated to evil travels to Transylvania to ask Count Dracula to journey to China to awaken the 7 Golden Vampires which are now asleep. Draucla takes possesion of Kah's body and makes the journey.
After his encounters witn the European vampire Professor Van Helsing journies to China to learn about the vampires of the east. There he joines 7 brothers and 1 sister on a quest to destroy the 7 vampires which have cursed a village for centuries. Accompaning Van Helsing and the 8 siblings are the professor's son Leyland and a wealthy European lady Vanessa Buren.
The film fooled me. I thought Leyland and Vanessa were going to be the romantic pair, then he met the chinese girl.
Van Helsing does not know that it was Dracula, in possession of the body of the wicked Kah, who awoke the 7 golden vampires.
The spoakes brother used his hands and feet as weapons. The twins use swords. One brother uses a spiked mace. Another uses twin axes. One uses a spear. One's an archer. The sister uses twin blades.
Being a Shaw Brothers film I knew the brothers would fall but it was still upseting when it happened. Seems like in any film with 7 warriors you can count on 5 getting killed.
The vampires wore gold masks, hence the name 7 Golden Vampires. They also wore bat shapped medalions from which they got their power.
Now I know the answer to the question, what are vampires in a non-Christian society afraid of. I would guess that a nation of atheists would be doomed if a vampire was loose in it, having no sacred symbols.
Asian vampires apparently to turn their victims into vampires with a single bite and killing the original vampire does not cure the victim.
I liked the movie. It was an interesting mix.
The DVD has The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and an audio version of the same story on side A. The audio feature has Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. Although its the same basic story the audio version has some differences. The brief conversation between Kah and Dracula is skipped over. The man with the two axes is described as a giant.
On side B is Seven Brothers Meet Dracula and a trailer. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is the original 89 minute film. Seven Brothers Meet Dracula is editted down to 72 minutes. According to the IMdb it is missing half of Draculas's dialogue and rearranges scenes out of their proper sequence. I only watched The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. I have interest in the butchered version.