6/20/2023 0 Comments Librarians dracula resurrectionShe bites Ching, who throws himself and Vanessa onto a wooden stake, impaling them both.Įlsewhere, the last remaining vampire captures Ching's sister Mai Kwei and takes her back to the temple in order to be drained of her blood. During the fight, Vanessa is bitten by one of the vampires and quickly becomes one herself. The vampires reach the village, and soon Van Helsing's group once again do battle with the last of the golden vampires and their army of undead, resulting in a brutal fight that kills two vampires, many undead servants, several villagers, and several of Van Helsing's companions. In the temple that evening, Dracula, still disguised as Kah, calls on the remaining vampires to kill Van Helsing and his party once and for all. They use wooden stakes as barriers and dig a large trench around them filled with flammable liquid. The following morning, the party reaches the village, partly ruined but still populated, and prepares to make their final stand. The remaining three retreat, taking their army of undead with them. The group are quickly engaged in battle and soon kill the three vampires. On the journey, the group are ambushed by the six remaining vampires in a cave, along with their army of undead. Van Helsing agrees and embarks with his son Leyland, Hsi Ching, and his seven kung fu-trained siblings on a dangerous journey, funded by a wealthy widow named Vanessa Buren, whom Leyland and two of Ching's siblings saved from an attack by the tongs. He proves it by producing the dead vampire's medallion and asks Van Helsing if he would be willing to travel to the village and destroy the vampire menace. Most of the professors he has gathered disbelieve the story and leave, but one man, Hsi Ching, informs Van Helsing that the farmer from the story was his grandfather. Van Helsing goes on to say that he is positive that the village still exists and is terrorized by the six remaining vampires he is only unsure of where the village lies. However, the moment that the vampire touched the Buddha, the creature was destroyed in flames. One of the vampires spied the medallion around the Buddha and went over to collect it. About to be cornered, the farmer placed the medallion around a small jade Buddha statue before the vampires killed him. The farmer fled the temple, but the high priest sent the vampires and their turned victims after him. He was unsuccessful, as his wife was killed in the fight, but in the chaos he grabbed a medallion from around one of the vampire's necks, which he saw as the vampires' life source. A farmer who had lost his wife to the vampires trekked his way to their temple and battled them. He speaks of an unknown rural village that has been terrorised by a cult of seven known as the Seven Golden Vampires. Despite Kah's pleas for mercy, the vampire displaces himself into Kah's body and then triumphantly leaves the tomb for China.Ī century later, Professor Van Helsing gives a lecture at a Chungking university on Chinese vampire legends. Dracula considers the offer and accepts on one condition: that he uses Kah's body to escape his castle, which has become his prison. He goes on to tell the Count that the Seven Golden Vampires' power is fading and he needs him to restore them to their former glory. The figure announces, in his own language, that his name is Kah, a Taoist monk and the high priest of the Temple of the Seven Golden Vampires in rural China. In Transylvania in 1804, a lone figure makes his way through the countryside and into the towering Castle Dracula, where he summons Count Dracula. The understanding was that they would do the kung-fu stuff and I would do the rest of it, which suited me no end I can tell you." Plot They went a bit berserk but I left that alone. Nice the leading man was David Chang, a nice man. The film was a financial failure.īaker said it was a "Terrible picture, but some of the Chinese were very On its release in the United States, the film was truncated further and titled The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula. The film was first released in Hong Kong and then in the United Kingdom with a shorter runtime. The film was shot between October 22 and December 11, 1973, at Shaw Brothers Studios in Hong Kong, where Chang Cheh was hired to direct further martial arts scenes for the film's release in the East. The film is a British-Hong Kong co-production between Hammer Film Productions and Shaw Brothers Studio. Is recruited by a man and his seven siblings after giving a lecture at a Chinese university to take on the vampires. A century later, Peter Cushing as Professor Van Helsing, known in the world for his exploits with Dracula, The film opens in 1804, when seven vampires clad in gold masks are resurrected by Count Dracula, played by John Forbes-Robertson. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ( Chinese: 七金屍) is a 1974 martial arts horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker.
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