The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1979)

I love this movie so much

You won't be disappointed!

Thanks for the memories!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is one of the kind movie when it combine two most well know studio in the world:Hammer and Shaw Bros so the result i exactly what i expected.The awesome score of Hammer and the kick ass action scene of Shaw Bros mix perfectly with each other.For the first time i can witness two legendary actor Peter and David Chiang Cushing working together.That being said the movie still fill with many noticeable flaws and the Shaw Bros elements is stronger than Hammer but if you can look pass that this movie is a great piece of entertainment

This is the ninth and final Hammer "Dracula" film and the only one to feature an actor other than Christopher Lee in the role of Dracula. It's a decent film but not a great one. I've never been a fan of martial arts films so I found those (endless) scenes rather boring but at least they tried something different, which is why I enjoyed it more than "Scars of Dracula". I thought that that film was just a rehash of the best bits from the first five films. Even though Dracula had relatively little screen time in the previous films (bar "The Brides of Dracula" in which he doesn't appear at all), his presence was felt throughout and, consequently, anticipation and tension are built. That's not the case in this film, the only one in which he isn't the title character. His inclusion seems more like a late addition to the storyline. His final Hammer death is very underwhelming and rushed. Peter Cushing is as excellent as ever but it's just not the same without Christopher Lee. The series deserved to go out with a stronger film.

Van Helsing goes to China...and the result is ripping good yarn!When this movie first came out, many Hammer fans were appalled at the idea of Hammer producer Michael Carreras teaming with Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw to create a Hammer/Kung Fu hybrid; it seemed like a desperate attempt to revive the declining Hammer brand by grafting it onto the ascendant Kung Fu craze. Looking back from the vantage point of 2011--after seeing Batman, Hellboy, Iron Man, The Mummy franchise, et. al. go to China--Carerras's cross-cultural gambit looks like genius, and 40 years ahead of its time...perhaps literally so, since the revived Hammer company is now talking about doing a remake.If you fear this movie will be a Kung Fu actioner with lots of bone-crunching sound effects and nuggets of inscrutable wisdom, think again. It's pure Hammer from start to finish, with a reliable anchoring performance by Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. It seems the venerable doctor is doing some anthropological field work in China; when he lectures at a university, his unwelcome discussion of vampires draws catcalls but finds one receptive listener who knows the truth of the Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. Add a traveling European heiress with a taste for adventure and a fortune to fund an expedition into the hinterland, and the plot is off and running.This is a work of high fantasy that draws not just on Bram Stoker but on a long tradition of English literature. The narrative brio reminds me of the adventure stories of H. Rider Haggard (here set in China instead of Africa). There's also a bit of Tolkien in the storytelling, with the 7 Golden Vampires reminiscent of the Nazgul, Dracula of Sauron, and Van Helsing of Gandalf, leading a motley fellowship on a journey to destroy evil. As the travelers draw ever nearer to their goal, they engage in repeated battles that take a terrible toll, right up to the final confrontation with the Evil One himself. (Lest you think the Tolkien parallel is a stretch, consider that the character of Van Helsing was one of Tolkien's inspirations for Gandalf, the keeper of secret knowledge who advises and motivates those who would rid the world of its greatest evil.)The action scenes look quite dated, but only because we've grown used to seeing aerial martial arts performed with guy-wires against a blue-screen; in the old-fashioned Kung Fu films, acrobats were still subject to the laws of gravity.

When Peter Cushing as the stalwart, globe-trotting Professor Van Helsing arrives in 1904 Chun King to spread the word that vampires are "very real," the Chinese scholars to whom he's speaking dismiss his claims. David Chiang (doing double duty as an ancestor and his contemporary descendant) responds that "the truth deserves respect." He knows that the Evil of Dracula has come to the tiny village of Ping Kuei. With the financial aid of Englishwoman Juile Ege, Ching and his brothers ("Seven Brothers- and one SISTER," the trailer inform us) join Van Helsing in his quest. (Shih Szu, who plays Mei Kwei- and whose name, Ching informs us, means "as beautiful as a Rose"- is absolutely stunning.) (It's little wonder that Robin Stewart, as Van Helsing's son Leyland, falls for her en route.) There's enough action throughout to keep THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES from ever bogging down (in either the English version or the eviscerated American version, THE 7 BROTHERS MEET Dracula). Cushing as Van Helsing never just stands idly by when the going gets tough, and it's his performance more than any other that carries this film. No matter what the part, Peter Cushing was always believable- always- and he was never better than he was here. John Forbes-Robinson has a cameo as Christopher Lee as the dreaded Dracula. His minions- among them the hopping vampires of Chinese mythology- are appropriately fugly and the James Bernard score will sear its way into your memory. THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES continues to stand the test of time (it certainly holds up better than, say, Sammo Hung's MR. VAMPIRE or Tsui Hark's THE VAMPIRE HUNTERS, to name but a couple). Producer-writer Don Houghton and director Roy Ward Baker have crafted a masterpiece.