Film

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

Name: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Genre: Action, Horror
Released: 1974
Cast: Peter Cushing, David Chiang Da-Wei, Julie Ege, Robin Stewart, Shih Szu

A gloriously absurd 1974 collision of Hammer Horror and kung fu cinema. Peter Cushing's Van Helsing teams with seven martial-arts warriors to fight Dracula's skeletal vampire army in rural China. It's campy, action-packed, and utterly committed to the lunacy of its premise—a film that knows exactly how weird it is and leans in hard.

TMDb rating

3.0

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