#chistopher lee

[fallbabylon]

The Wicker Man exhibition at the Horse Hospital- London UK

[frankendavis]

A photomontage I made ages ago, posted in commemoration of the publication date of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula on May 26, 1897.

[fandom-imagination-ss]

Annual Halloween imagines

Imagine: waking up Dracula in a mature way 😉

[zafirosreverie]

you’re always right (Saruman x Elf!Reader)

Requested by @meganffion680

I hope you like it :3

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You sighed when Gandalf smiled at you. Saruman and Elrond were trying to stop the dwarves and Galadriel left after her talk with Gandalf (you had to act like you weren’t there), leaving both of you alone. 

It was true that you and Mithrandir didn’t talk too much; first of all, because he was traveling too often and you prefer to stay in one place. Second, your personalities were pretty different. And then there was the fact that you lived with Saruman. 

It was one of those things that everybody knew but no one talks about it. Elrond didn’t understand why someone with your beauty would love an old man like the wizard. Galadriel didn’t really care and you were thankful for it. At least she didn’t ask. And Gandalf...Gandalf had a strange reaction. Maybe it was because he knew Saruman for more time, or maybe it was making him uncomfortable with the age difference (in your defense, you were an elf, you weren’t really that young). Anyway, some people did not understand your relationship, but you stopped caring about it a long time ago.

You knew that the other four wizards respected Saruman and that he was considered one of the most important people, even in the high council. But Gandalf was not impressed by it. He was still a gentleman to you tho.

“You knew it” you whispered, referring to the dwarves. He had the decency to look guilty. You laughed. “I won’t tell him,” you said “but you should leave now if you want to reach them”

He smiled and gave you a respectful bow before he left.

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You smirked when you heard Saruman’s sigh behind you. You arrived at Isengard many hours before him, and for the sound of his steps, he was tired.

“We didn’t find them,” he said and you nodded “He should have known better than to associate with the Dwarves” 

“He just wanted to help,” you said “they lost their home”

“That was 60 years ago!”

You laughed and walked to him. Saruman was not someone to laugh at, but you were not a normal person. You wrapped your arms around his waist from behind and kissed his temple. You felt him relaxing against you and smiled.

“You should rest,” you said “I can sense something is going to happen. Something bad.”

He turned to look at you and gave you a small smiled “Nothing can hurt you as long as you’re with me. But you’re always right, so I shall do as you say,  my lady” he said and kissed your hand, making you blush.

Maybe some people did not understand your relationship, but you stopped caring about it a long time ago.

[boblizarraga]

[cinemaquiles]

Guerra nas Estrelas, Contatos Imediatos e Christopher Lee: Invasão dos Extraterrestres!

[thematineeproject]

Now on day six of my venture, we move on to the late fifties, with Horror of Dracula!

After Lon Chaney Jr and Claude Rains, we’re moving on to two other big names in horror, Christopher Lee as Dracula, and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. It is the first Dracula movie that Hammer Films put out, and the first appearance of Lee as Dracula, who will reprise his role in five more films.

After several black-and-white films, it’s refreshing to see some color. Well, Technicolor, which means that the blood is bright red, and a little too thickly textured, to make sure that it stands out on the screen, and stays there, wherever it’s been applied. This is not, in itself, a flaw, more of a characteristic of the era.

Again, as with The Wolfman, the running time is relatively short (at eighty-two minutes) so they don’t waste time on long expositions and character development. Harker arrives, gets settled in, and moments after meeting the count, you find out that his presence is a cover, as he is there to kill Dracula. It’s a deviation from pretty much all other versions of the story, and it’s fine, really. It helps make the character a little more sympathetic than in the book, where he is a jingoistic, arrogant twat. But that’s the victorian era for you.

In another change from other stories, there’s no shapeshifting, hell, no bats at all; this is most likely for budgetary reasons, but then again, there’s not much of a need for such tricks, and it would distract from the plot, which is quite simple, the count is out for revenge. And if your bad guys is Christopher Lee playing Dracula, you have a presence ready-made for sexy scares.

I love the fact that they stuck with the cape, which stays with tradition, and serves to emulate bat wings. They also decided to be more practical in terms of locations, as instead of traveling to London, they are just across the border in an unnamed country (Belgium? Switzerland? France?) so that the pursuit is done by cart, no muss and fuss about sea voyages and plagues of rats. The use of a wax cylinder phonograph is cute, as it would have been the first ipod of it’s days, so only few would have access to it, and the general public would be clueless about it’s existence, as portrayed in the film by the servant’s reaction to Van Helsing’s use of it.

According to many commentators, Horror of Dracula is the best one of the series. It may be so, but I’d have to watch some of the others to compare. You don’t go watching Hammer Films for exceptional quality, but for the mixture of horror and camp, with just enough blood and gore to serve the story, and super-dramatisation to harken back to the early days of silent film.

I would recommend this type of films for the squeamish, with just enough blood to show wounds, but no geysers of gore for shock effect.

I’ll be staying with vampires for the next entry, but going to an area that we really don’t expect to see films from!

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