cellars of the hotel. Very much in love, she fears the meeting between her eminent uncle and her beau as Paul is an atheist who always tells the truth. Her fears are well-founded when the two men meet and Paul leaves the house to avoid unpleasantness with her God-fearing Uncle. But she loves Paul and regularly takes the precipitous stroll along the rooftops to enter his bedroom at the inn. Finding the local barmaid with him doesn’t dampen her feelings for this brilliant young man whose strong moral centre would never let him do anything like that! Maria is shocked but shakes off her underlying suspicions enough to sleep with the boy. She is overjoyed when her uncle also approves her choice. When the man in the long black cloak attacks, she is unsure how she should react, but finds herself obeying his every command and clinging to his coffin in rapt ecstasy whilst he sleeps within. Unaware of her uncle’s death, she follows Dracula to the castle breaking the flesh on her feet as she makes the long trek through mossy woodland and sharp rocks. As she tires, her master takes her in his arms and carries her to the castle. His mood changes as Paul arrives and she has never witnessed such violence. She stands on the sidelines as the dark figure is destroyed when he slips from the battlements. Shaken from her seeming trance, she rushes into the arms of Paul. There is no doubt at the fade out that this pair will have the happy ending that they both deserve.
Born in my own province of Yorkshire in the UK, the beautiful Veronica Carlson made her screen debut in Dracula Has Risen From the Grave . She went on to star in more genre films of the period, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) and Tyburn Pictures, The Ghoul (1975). She is an accomplished artist and still acts every now and then and appears regularly at Hammer/Horror Film conventions.
Straight-talking Paul is a student in love with Maria. He works at the local inn in the bakery below to make money to go towards his studies that are never really specified. He enters the film on the worst day of his life. He is about to meet his future bride’s mother. Dressed in all his finery, with a bouquet of flowers, he is forced into an old tradition of balancing beer on the end of a broom whilst drinking a further pint as he tries to hold it steady. Maria enters the inn and his ribbing chums let out laughter as he takes the full glass over his head. Smelling of ale he enters her home and is surprised to find her very staid uncle, the local Monsignor. Things turn sour when he confesses that he does not believe in the existence of God. He leaves and gets drunk on Schnapps at the inn. He is unable to protest when good friend and co-worker Zena offers to take him to bed; even to the extent of stealing a kiss. But when Paul is able to focus again, he sees Maria tucking him in. She stays the night. The next day, Zena is in a very grouchy mood and even disappears the same night to God knows where. He didn’t think that she was really like that, but Max, his employer ensures him that they are all the same. He is surprised when The Monsignor is mortally wounded and tells him that only he can stop Dracula through his love for the girl. He recruits the Priest to help and finds that he has made the wrong choice as the cleric lays him out with a candelabrum. Recovering very quickly, he forces the Priest to take him to Dracula and drives a stake through the monsters chest. The Priest is weak, however, and his lack of faith causes the most incredible reaction. The dark man tears the wood from his chest and beats a hasty retreat as Paul uses hot fire from the oven to beat him back. As the beast escapes with Maria, Paul journeys on horseback for a final confrontation. All force seems futile, but luck is in his favour as Dracula slips over the wall and lands on the upturned cross, crying blood as the Priest appears from nowhere it seems to say the necessary
Born in my own province of Yorkshire in the UK, the beautiful Veronica Carlson made her screen debut in Dracula Has Risen From the Grave . She went on to star in more genre films of the period, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) and Tyburn Pictures, The Ghoul (1975). She is an accomplished artist and still acts every now and then and appears regularly at Hammer/Horror Film conventions.
Straight-talking Paul is a student in love with Maria. He works at the local inn in the bakery below to make money to go towards his studies that are never really specified. He enters the film on the worst day of his life. He is about to meet his future bride’s mother. Dressed in all his finery, with a bouquet of flowers, he is forced into an old tradition of balancing beer on the end of a broom whilst drinking a further pint as he tries to hold it steady. Maria enters the inn and his ribbing chums let out laughter as he takes the full glass over his head. Smelling of ale he enters her home and is surprised to find her very staid uncle, the local Monsignor. Things turn sour when he confesses that he does not believe in the existence of God. He leaves and gets drunk on Schnapps at the inn. He is unable to protest when good friend and co-worker Zena offers to take him to bed; even to the extent of stealing a kiss. But when Paul is able to focus again, he sees Maria tucking him in. She stays the night. The next day, Zena is in a very grouchy mood and even disappears the same night to God knows where. He didn’t think that she was really like that, but Max, his employer ensures him that they are all the same. He is surprised when The Monsignor is mortally wounded and tells him that only he can stop Dracula through his love for the girl. He recruits the Priest to help and finds that he has made the wrong choice as the cleric lays him out with a candelabrum. Recovering very quickly, he forces the Priest to take him to Dracula and drives a stake through the monsters chest. The Priest is weak, however, and his lack of faith causes the most incredible reaction. The dark man tears the wood from his chest and beats a hasty retreat as Paul uses hot fire from the oven to beat him back. As the beast escapes with Maria, Paul journeys on horseback for a final confrontation. All force seems futile, but luck is in his favour as Dracula slips over the wall and lands on the upturned cross, crying blood as the Priest appears from nowhere it seems to say the necessary
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