Dracula / Horror of Dracula (1958)
- Year
- 1958
- Director
- Terence Fisher
- Principal cast
- Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling
- Budget (reported)
- About £81,412 (reported UK production cost)
- Box office (reported)
- About $3.5 million in worldwide rentals (reported)
Geeky trivia
- Christopher Lee’s first outing as Count Dracula for Hammer — instant icon status.
- Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing is the other half of Hammer’s dream pairing.
- Released in the US as Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with earlier Draculas.
- Colour gothic bloodletting that helped define Hammer’s house style.
Mistakes & goofs
- Period productions this old have continuity niggles in public databases, but we couldn’t pin a short “must-mention” goof list as cleanly as for modern blockbusters — treat any single blooper video with caution.
Budget/rentals/cast from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1958_film)