Hammer films are the best. They had (relatively) strong stories, a number of gruesome and exciting ways to be killed, and some truly iconic and fantastic actors. Some of the ideas were bizarre, some were dark as hell, and some were simply brilliant.
Two of their greatest actors were Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, who stared in a great number of Hammer movies as various characters. For shear popularity however, Lee is mostly renowned for his portrayal of the vampire lord Dracula and Cushing as his everlasting nemesis Van Helsing. As Dracula, Lee had a charismatic menace and intensity that made his vampire pretty damned scary. He doesn't quit and doesn't die. He will target your loved ones just for the pleasure of revenge and then rub it in your face. He was a vampire's vampire. Cushing, as Van Helsing, is even more memorable. He is good, pure and uncompromising, and like Dracula will not cease until his missions is finished.
On their own, each actor was suburb. Together, they were perfection.
List of Christopher Lee (as Dracula) films:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqm1gw28xo Dracula: Prince of Darkness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0_BVgmpxfI Dracula Has Risen From the Grave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PGq8tXbgcg Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdT-7D6fKxs Taste the Blood of Dracula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCiJr9ZFLZQ Scars of Dracula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deJWUkiS42U Dracula A.D. 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yex1VZ96Jw Satanic Rites of Dracula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXA57J_NAbw Dracula pere et fils (Dracula and Son)
Images taken by me from my set of Hammer Horror Classics dvds. No copyright infringement is meant and no money is being made.
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