Whoever wrote and directed this must have watched all the early 1970s Dracula films.
1970s Hammer vampire films influence
Originally Posted by smudges dad:
“Whoever wrote and directed this must have watched all the early 1970s Dracula films.”
“Whoever wrote and directed this must have watched all the early 1970s Dracula films.”
I'm sure I saw Peter Cushing in the background, who always played a Victorian doctor/scientist even in films set in the present (then the 60's, 70's).
I guess there may have been a nod to that in the episode, but no I don't think it had that feel to it. I enjoyed the episode but it didn't have the sense of drama Hammer films created.
I felt it might have been inspired by the works of
Victorian writer Sheridan Le Fanu -the female
vampires were straight of Le Fanu's "Carmilla"
Also, Amy wandering around
in her nightie with a candle remindered me of
Naomi Watts in the Beeb adaptation of "The Wyvern Mystery".
Victorian writer Sheridan Le Fanu -the female
vampires were straight of Le Fanu's "Carmilla"
Also, Amy wandering around
in her nightie with a candle remindered me of
Naomi Watts in the Beeb adaptation of "The Wyvern Mystery".
Of course we've already been treated to one Hammer homage/rip-off in "The End of Time Part 1".
Many elements of the Master's resurrection were lifted straight from Dracula's resurrection in Hammer's "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" (1966), and also "Taste the Blood of Dracula" (1970) which also uses a ring as one of the instruments of the resurrection.
Many elements of the Master's resurrection were lifted straight from Dracula's resurrection in Hammer's "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" (1966), and also "Taste the Blood of Dracula" (1970) which also uses a ring as one of the instruments of the resurrection.
