Editing Hammer Film Productions (section)

===Dracula===
[[File:Dracula 1958 c.jpg|thumb|[[Christopher Lee]] in ''[[Dracula (1958 film)|Dracula]]'', a.k.a. ''[[Dracula (1958 film)|Horror of Dracula]]'' (1958) ]]
Eight sequels to ''[[Dracula (1958 film)|Dracula]]'' were released between 1960 and 1974:

* ''[[The Brides of Dracula]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Dracula: Prince of Darkness]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Dracula Has Risen from the Grave]]'' (1968)
* ''[[Taste the Blood of Dracula]]'' (1970)
* ''[[Scars of Dracula]]'' (1970)
* ''[[Dracula A.D. 1972]]'' (1972)
* ''[[The Satanic Rites of Dracula]]'' (1973; ''Count Dracula and his Vampire Bride'' in the U.S.)
* ''[[The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires]]'' (1974; ''The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula'' in the U.S.), featuring [[John Forbes-Robertson (actor)|John Forbes-Robertson]] as Dracula in place of Christopher Lee.

[[Peter Cushing]] appeared in the first and final three sequels (with archive footage also used in ''Dracula: Prince of Darkness''). [[Christopher Lee]] appeared in all the sequels except the first and last.
The first five sequels were direct sequels to the original. ''The Brides of Dracula'' did not include Dracula but is still considered part of the series since [[Peter Cushing]] reprises his role as Doctor Van Helsing and battles vampire Baron Meinster ([[David Peel (actor)|David Peel]]) and the film makes several direct references to the 1958 original. [[Christopher Lee]] returned as Dracula for the following six films, which employed ingenuity in finding new ways to resurrect the Count. Only archive footage of Cushing was used in ''Dracula: Prince of Darkness'' and he wouldn't return to the Dracula series until ''Dracula A.D. 1972''. Hammer upped the graphic violence and gore with ''Scars of Dracula'' in an attempt to re-imagine the character to appeal to a younger audience, but the movie performed poorly at the box-office which led to a further change of style with the remaining three films. ''Dracula A.D. 1972'' and ''The Satanic Rites of Dracula'' were not period pieces like their predecessors, but had a contemporary 1970s London setting. Now set in a new timeline, Peter Cushing appeared in both films, playing Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing, as well as his own grandfather (Lawrence Van Helsing) in the prologue of the first of the two films. Cushing returned for a final time as Professor Van Helsing in the horror / martial arts crossover ''The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires'', a movie this time set primarily in 1904.

Christopher Lee grew increasingly disillusioned with the direction the character was being taken and with the poor quality of later scripts, although he did improve these slightly himself by adding lines of dialogue from the original novel. Lee speaks at least one line taken from [[Bram Stoker]] in every Dracula film he appeared in, except for ''Dracula: Prince of Darkness'' in which the Count does not talk at all (Lee claimed repeatedly he was appalled by his dialogue in that film and refused to speak it, but Jimmy Sangster rebutted that no dialogue was written for the character). He was also concerned about typecasting, and after filming ''The Satanic Rites of Dracula'' he finally quit the series.  [[John Forbes-Robertson (actor)|John Forbes-Robertson]] took over the role for one final outing as the Count.