Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride - Gothic Halloween Decor, Vampire Couple Costume Accessory for Cosplay, Horror Party, and Themed Events

"The Satanic Rites of Dracula" is a 1973 film (released 1978 in USA) about vampires (men & women), and how absolute power corrupts absolutely. Christopher Lee stars in the role of the Count; Peter Cushing is Prof. Lorrimer Van Helsing; Barbara Yu Ling portrays Chin Yang; Valerie Van Ost and Maggie Fitzgerald are vampire women; and Joanna Lumley stars as Jessica, the granddaughter of Van Helsing. Most of the actors and actresses are natives of and reside in Great Britain, so it comes as no shock the film was made at Elsteree Studios in Borehamwood, Hartfordshire, England, UK. This film was also known as "Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride" and although incredibly milquetoast in the horror genre by today's standards, the film has fairly brief but still there female nudity in it even though it bears "not rated" on the DVD case art. Of course Christopher Lee is the quintessential Dracula, then 20 years pass and in a newer version Gary Oldman stars as the Count in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (rated R) along with Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Cary Elwes, Monica Bellucci, Sadie Frost, and others, in 1992. If you know both versions, you should also check out "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" (rated PG-13) which in 1995 starred Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber, Amy Yasbeck, Lysette Anthony, Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman, and Avery Schreiber in a spoof of Dracula themes, but amazingly kept close to the legends in accuracy. You have to go all the way back to 1931 to find "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi as the Count; which of course points out the little detail by default that there are over 70 versions of the Dracula film theme out there, and those are not counting the spin-offs that don't include the actual character of Count Dracula. Perhaps the scariest one out there is the 1922 version with Max Schreck as Count Orlok, known as "Nosferatu the Vampire" or "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (spelling depending upon country). The Nosferatu version with Max Schreck (filmed in Germany) was purported to generate the most chilling and the longest lasting nightmares that are Dracula film based. The name Nosferatu was used because the Bram Stoker estate denied F. W. Murnau (the director) the permission to base his 1922 film on the bestseller by Bram Stoker. If you're under twenty years old, you will never appreciate the evil that exudes from the 1922 film's imagery. Contemporary young adults are more into "Twilight," "Being Human," "Moonlight," "The Vampire Diaries," "True Blood," and a few other popular made for TV series, but if you're old enough you'll remember the pioneer of TV series for the vampire theme known as "Dark Shadows" which ran from 1966 to 1971 with Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins. Purists will want to get all of these (any and all above mentioned), and I say go for it. If you don't like blood, you might want to buy something else to watch.