Monster of the Day #519

Watched this again fairly recently. I like the film but seems like it could have used a little more work integrating the horror and martial arts halfs into one coherent movie. Still a lot of fun.
I did find this guy a lot more effective than Drac’s true form and wish he’d stayed in this way though the climax. The European Dracula actor just didn’t do much for me but I loved this guy. 

I don’t care, I love this movie! Then again I’d happily watch Peter Cushing read the phone book.  I will say I much prefer the original HK version to the American drive-in cut, which moves some stuff confusingly out of order so they can edit the same boobs in all over the damn movie. And fight scenes, lots of fight scenes, but not the plot, we didn’t need to carry much of *that* over, that would be silly.
 
Man it’s been years since I watched this one, probably time to replace my VHS with a DVD, since I haven’t had a working VCR in at least half a decade.

Thanks Ken, you hit the nail on the head there. I’d rather Helsing had went to China to fight an Asian vampire lord but as you said they had to have Drac as the main villain. I never really liked any Hammer Drac movie that much beyond ‘Brides of Dracula’ for the reasons you pointed out while I did like ‘Kronos’ largely because it shifted gears and did something new.  

Looking at Amazon, it’s apparently out of print at the moment, but there are some used copies floating around at a bit of a markup.

Wow, I picked the Anchor Bay two disk version of it along with ‘Frankenstein Created Woman’ a few years ago for about seven bucks on one of Amazon’s Halloween horror sales. Have no idea which version this one is – I’m assuming the original version. 

I first saw the US trailer on the tape I got of WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS. I remain awed by the title. THE SEVEN BROTHERS AND THEIR ONE SISTER MEET DRACULA! In a way, though, that does a better job of selling the wacky cross-breed of kung fu and Hammer horror than the rather more elegant British title of THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES. That sounds more like a treasure-seeking adventure movie.

I think the actual title card simply reads THE 7 BROTHERS MEET DRACULA, a little easier to cram onto a poster, but the trailer announcer gleefully spouts the full title. I really dig that “AND THEIR ONE SISTER” he throws in there. I imagine he was out of breath after every line read!

Yeah, I found ‘Seven Brothers’ on the reverse side of the DVD. Thanks Rock, I hadn’t even thought to flip the thing over! I just watched it and just as you said GJ they seem to have dumped about 1/3rd of the movie (mostly the plot from the beginning) and then repeated elements of the rampaging undead and the sacrifice scenes with the topless gals about THREE times….
Nice to know it’s there but I expect I’ll be watching the original UK cut from now on.

Well, neither is Godzilla (until recently) or the Frankenstein Monster.