The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)

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1. 

   NightGypsy

   This has got to be the best historic romantic western action kung-fu horror movie with martial arts, zombies, AND vampires I've ever seen. 9 years 11 months ago
2. 

   few visible scars

   As of may 2020..
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy67inVHG0w 3 years 11 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Hammer horror meets Shaw Brothers, literally, in The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, a crazy mash-up that also happens to be Peter Cushing's last appearance as Van Helsing. He's good in it and there's no reason the Van Helsings can't fight vampires all over the world, so it works in concept. Because it is also Hong Kong made, David Chiang shares the hero duties, and HK cinema rules apply to him and his family or martial arts fighters (Chiang even gets to do a Roadhouse throat rip). The vampires are culturally different, which is interesting, though there's not enough "hopping vampire" stuff for my tastes. In terms of action, Lau Kar-Leung was one of the choreographers and I can easily tell which sequences he worked on - the best ones - though he's still in the service of co-director Chang Cheh here, so the violence is more sadistic, which I suppose fits the horror mold. Where the film fails is at the plot level because there's a weird contrivance to get Dracula to China, but use the European actor sparingly. I bet of Christopher Lee had agreed to do it, he wouldn't have transformed himself into a Chinese character. So no idea what's going on with that, but enjoyed kung fu stars palling around with Cushing and destroying the undead with a variety of weapons. 2 years 6 months ago

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