Frankenweenie (2012)

English


Young filmmaker and scientist, Victor Frankenstein lives with his parents and dog, Sparky in the suburban city of New Holland. Concerned with his son's isolation, Victor's father encourages him to take up baseball and make achievements outside of science. At his first game, Victor hits a home run, and Sparky, pursuing the ball, is subsequently killed by a car.
Inspired by a demonstration of the effect of electricity on dead frogs, a depressed Victor digs up Sparky's corpse, creates a makeshift laboratory in the attic, and successfully reanimates Sparky with lightning. Seeing a cat, Sparky escapes from the attic and explores the neighborhood, recognized first by Edgar, Victor's hunchbacked-classmate. Edgar blackmails Victor into showing him how the reanimation worked, resulting in the two reanimating a goldfish (which turns invisible). Edgar brags about the fish to their classmates, sparking their interest in reanimation.
Victor's parents discover Sparky in the attic, causing him to flee. Joined by Victor, the family search for the dog while the classmates invade the lab, discovering Victor's reanimation formula. Each classmate going their separate way perform their own experiment. Nassor revives his hamster Colossus at the cemetery, who bears a resemblance to the Mummy. Toshiaki's dead turtle Shelly becomes a huge Gamera-like monster. Bob dumps a package of sea monkeys into his pool, who transform and chase him into the streets. Edgar breaks into the school and brings back a were-rat. Weird Girl's experiment takes a wrong turn when she accidentally mutates the bat intended for the experiment and Mr. Whiskers into a vampire cat. The animals wreak havoc in the town. Although each pet is eventually defeated, Mr. Whiskers carries off Elsa van Helsing, Victor's love interest, to the town's windmill. The townsfolk blame Sparky for the monsters and chase him inside the windmill, setting it ablaze. Sparky rescues both Victor and Elsa from the burning windmill to the town's approval, only to be pulled back inside by Mr. Whiskers. The cat is staked through the heart with a falling rafter just as the windmill crushes Sparky to death.
As reward for his bravery, the townsfolk gather to revive Sparky with their car batteries, reanimating him once more. Sparky awakens and reunites with his own love interest, Persephone, Elsa's Bride of Frankenstein-style poodle.

Français

Victor Frankenstein est un jeune garçon qui vit tranquillement avec sa famille et son chien Sparky, qu'il adore. Jusqu'au jour où Sparky meurt. Au lieu d'accepter la fatalité, Victor décide de ramener son chien à la vie, quitte à employer des techniques scientifiques terrifiantes.

Español

Víctor Frankenstein (interpretado por Barret Oliver) es un niño que realiza cortos donde su perro Sparky es el protagonista, hasta que éste es arrollado por un coche. En su escuela Víctor aprende sobre el impulso eléctrico de los músculos y se le ocurre usar esa técnica para revivir a su mascota. Crea un complejo artefacto cuya culminación es una gran explosión de luz que devuelve a la vida a Sparky. Si bien Víctor y su familia aceptan al revivido animal sus vecinos están aterrados y cuando el perro se les acerca se asustan, asustando a su vez al perro que huye con Víctor detrás. Lo encuentran en el molino al que los vecinos de Víctor prenden accidentalmente fuego con una antorcha. Víctor se golpea y cae inconsciente. Entonces Sparky lo arrastra lejos de las llamas pero el perro es golpeado por un molino del mini golf y muere. Los vecinos de Víctor arrepentidos de sus actos prestan los cables de su auto para "recargar" a Sparky y cuando éste revive todos lo celebran.

Italiano

Victor e il suo amico quattro zampe Sparky sono inseparabili.

Quando il cagnolino viene investito da un'automobile, Victor, da sempre appassionato di fantascienza, decide di riportarlo in vita a modo suo: il nuovo Sparky ha però fattezze mostruose ed il ragazzo sarà costretto a nasconderlo in casa per non destare sospetti. Ma il cucciolo riesce a fuggire e Victor dovrà convincere amici e vicini che si tratta del vecchio amico di sempre.

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974)

English

A Secret Service agent (Maurice O'Connell) barely escapes from an English country house, in which satanic rituals are celebrated. Before he dies of his wounds, he reveals to his superiors that four prominent members of society - a government minister, a peer, a general and a famous scientist - are involved in the cult, led by Chin Yang (Barbara Yu Ling). In order to avoid any reprisals by the minister, the secret service call in Scotland Yard's Inspector Murray (Michael Coles) to work on the case independently. Murray (who had appeared in the preceding Dracula film) suggests consulting noted occult expert Professor Lorrimar Van Helsing (Cushing).
The cult kidnaps the Secret Service secretary Jane (Valerie Van Ost), who is later bitten by Dracula (Lee).
Murray, Secret Service agent Torrence (William Franklyn), and Van Helsing's granddaughter Jessica (Joanna Lumley) arrive at the country house, where they discover several vampire women chained up in the cellar, including Jane who is now a vampire herself. Murray kills Jane with a stake and the three escape the grounds.
Meanwhile, Van Helsing pays a visit to his scientist friend Julian Keeley (Freddie Jones), whom he had recognized among the four conspirators, and finds him mentally unstable and involved on bacteriological research aiming at creating a virulent strain of the bubonic plague. Van Helsing is shot unconscious by a guard. As he comes to, Keeley's dead body hangs from the ceiling while the petri dishes containing the bacteria are gone.
Keeley had referred to the 23rd of the month, which Van Helsing reveals to be the "Sabbath of the Undead". Keeley's research notes lead Van Helsing to the reclusive property developer D. D. Denham, who had funded Keeley's research. Van Helsing also suspects a reincarnated Dracula behind the plot, suggests that Dracula wants to exact revenge on humanity and speculates about a secret death wish on the Count's part. Van Helsing visits Denham in his headquarters (built on top of the church yard where Dracula died in the previous film) and finds out his true identity: Count Dracula. He tries to shoot Dracula with a silver bullet but is beaten by the Count's conspirators. Dracula decides that killing Van Helsing would be too simple and has him transferred to the country house.

Meanwhile, Jessica, Murray and Torrence, while observing the country house, are attacked by snipers. Torrence is killed, while Murray and Jessica are captured. Murray awakes in the cellar and escapes the clutches of the female vampires, and later Chin Yang, revealed to be a vampire herself, just as Dracula arrives with Van Helsing.
Dracula announces to Van Helsing and the ministers that Jessica, who is laid out on the satanic altar, will be his consort, uncorrupted by the plague that his "four horsemen" – including Van Helsing – would carry out into the world. The conspirators, who had considered the plague a mere deterrent, not to be used, begin to question their master but Dracula's hypnotic command stops them and causes the minister John Porter (Richard Mathews) to break the vial, releasing the bacteria and immediately infecting the minister, causing him horrible suffering.
Murray runs into a guard in the computer room, but overpowers him after a fight scene. The guard's metal baton smashes a computer panel and the ensuing explosion starts a fire and breaks open the ritual room. The two uninfected conspirators escape, Murray rescues Jessica, while the infected minister - and the plague bacteria - burns in the fire. Dracula attacks Van Helsing, who escapes through a window into the woods. He lures Dracula into a hawthorn bush - a symbol of good as it provided Christ with his Crown of thorns - where he is entangled until Van Helsing drives a stake through his heart.

Italiano

La storia narra sulle indagini condotte dal professor Lorrimer Van Helsing e da Scotland Yard sui partecipanti ad una setta satanica, la loro base è nell'istituto "Psychical Examination and Research Group" (PERGE). Uno degli indagati muore e le ricerche portano al Conte Dracula, che vuole diffondere un pericoloso virus.

Français

Dracula est devenu le leader de messes noires auxquelles adhèrent de riches capitalistes. Aidés de milices, il s'apprêtent à renverser le pouvoir en Angleterre en rependant la peste noire. Lorrimer Van Helsing, le descendant d'Abraham Van Helsing, va, une fois de plus, devoir mettre fin aux projets de Dracula.

Español

Los ritos satánicos de Drácula (título original en inglés, The satanic rites of Dracula) es una película de terror británica de 1973, dirigida por Alan Gibson, escrita por Don Houghton y protagonizada por Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Cole, William Franklyn y Freddie Jones. Después de Drácula 73 esta es la séptima y última película de la saga de Drácula. La película se ubica en los años 1970 y tiene cierto aire de filme de espionaje, notandose la influencia de la saga James Bond.
Estrictamente, es la última aportación al ciclo, mostrando ya el agotamiento de la fórmula por parte de Hammer Productions.^{[cita requerida]} Sin embargo, Drácula volvería a aparecer en Kung Fu contra los siete vampiros de oro (1974) ya sin la participación de Christopher Lee. Aunque a principios de los años 1970 Lee ya empezaba a aburrirse del personaje, siguió en la brecha hasta 1976, año en que se despidió del Conde en la producción francesa Dracula père et fils, de Édouard Molinaro.

Taste of blood of Dracula (1970)

English

In a prologue, an English business man named Weller travelling in Eastern Europe comes across Dracula as he dies in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave and collects his dried-up blood, his cloak and his ring.
Three English gentlemen - Hargood, Paxton and Secker - have formed a circle ostensibly devoted to charitable work but in reality they indulge themselves in brothels. One night they are intrigued by a young man who bursts into the brothel and is immediately tended to after snapping his fingers, despite the brothelkeeper's objections. The gentlemen are informed that he is Courtley, who was disinherited for celebrating a Black Mass.
Hoping for more intense pleasures, Hargood meets Courtley outside the brothel. The younger man takes the three to the Cafe Royal and promises them experiences they will never forget but insists that they come to see Weller and purchase from him Dracula's ring, cloak and dried-up blood. The three meet with Courtley at an abandoned Church for a ceremony during which he puts the dried blood into goblets and mixes it with drops of his own blood, telling the gentlemen to drink. As they refuse, he drinks the blood himself, screams and falls to the ground. As he grabs the gentlemen's legs, they kick and beat him with increasing vigour - not stopping until Courtley dies, at which they flee in disgust at what they have done. While the three return to their respective homes and get on with their lives, Courtley's body, left in the abandoned church, transforms into Dracula, who vows that those who have destroyed his servant will be destroyed.
Dracula begins his revenge with Hargood, who has begun to drink heavily and also treats his daughter Alice harshly, furious that she continues to see Paul, Paxton's son. Dracula takes control of Alice's mind via hypnosis and as her drunken father chases after her, she picks up a shovel and kills him. The next day, Hargood is found dead and Alice is missing. The police inspector in charge of the case refuses to investigate Alice's disappearance.
At the funeral, Alice hovers behind bushes and attracts the attention of Paul's sister Lucy, telling her to meet her that night. They enter the abandoned church where Alice introduces her to a dark figure. Lucy assumes him to be Alice's lover but she is greeted by Dracula, who turns her into a vampire.
With Hargood dead and Alice and Lucy missing, Paxton fears that Courtley is exacting revenge and, together with Secker, visits the abandoned church to check for Courtley's corpse. The body is missing but they discover Lucy asleep in a coffin with marks on her throat. Secker realizes she is a vampire and tries to stake her, but Paxton shoots him in the arm, forcing him to flee. While Secker stumbles his way home, Paxton weeps over his daughter's body. When he finally develops the courage to stake Lucy himself, she awakens, and Dracula appears. Alice and Lucy pin Paxton down and drive a wooden stake through his chest.
That night, Secker's son Jeremy sees Lucy, his lover, at his window and comes down to see her. She sinks her fangs into his throat, enslaving him while Dracula watches. The vampire Jeremy then stabs his father on Lucy's orders. On the way back to the church, Lucy begs for Dracula's approval but instead he drains her dry and leaves her destroyed. Back at the church, he prepares to bite Alice but a cock crows and he returns to his coffin.
The dead body of Secker causes Jeremy's arrest, the police inspector assumes that he hated his father and stabbed him in a rage. Paul disagrees but the inspector refuses to listen. He hands Paul a letter - "the ramblings of a lunatic" he calls it - in which Secker instructs Paul on how to fight the vampires.

Italiano

La storia narra della resurrezione del Conte Dracula ucciso tempo addietro. Per farlo tornare in vita vogliono utilizzare le ceneri raccolte casualmente all’atto della sua morte. I tre uomini che inizialmente volevano procedere al rito si tirano indietro e uccidono colui che possedeva le reliquie maledette, Lord Courtley, la vendetta di Dracula già risvegliato coinvolge i tre uomini e i loro figli, uno di loro cercherà di opporsi.

The Horror of Dracula (1958)

English

In May 1885, Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle of Count Dracula near Klausenberg, posing as a librarian. He is startled inside the castle by a young woman begging for help, claiming to be a prisoner. Dracula then greets Harker and guides him to his room, where he locks him in. Jonathan starts to write in his diary, and his true intentions are revealed: he has come to kill Dracula.
Freed sometime later, Harker again is confronted by the desperate woman. She begs him for help but then bites his neck. Just as she does, Dracula - fangs bared and lips bloody - arrives and yanks her away. When he awakens in daylight, Harker finds the bite mark. He hides his journal in a Virgin Mary grotto outside the castle and descends into the crypts, where he finds Dracula and the unnamed vampire woman resting in their coffins. Armed with a stake, he impales the woman. But when he turns to kill Dracula, the Count has already awakened and is waiting for him...
Dr. Van Helsing then arrives in Klausenberg, looking for Harker. The frightened townsfolk give him Harker's journal. When he arrives at the castle, it is deserted; a hearse carriage speeds by with a coffin in it. In the crypt, Van Helsing is horrified to discover Harker lying in a coffin as a vampire. Staking Harker, he leaves to deliver the veiled news of Harker's death in person to a wary Arthur Holmwood and his wife Mina, brother and sister-in-law of Harker's fiancée Lucy Holmwood. Lucy is ill, so the news is kept from her. But, when night falls, Lucy opens the doors to her terrace and lays bare her neck — already, it bears the mark of a vampire bite. And soon Dracula arrives and bites her again.
Mina seeks out Van Helsing's aid in treating Lucy's worsening health, but Lucy defeats his anti-vampire prescription and dies. Van Helsing turns over Harker's journal and reveals the truth. Vampire Lucy lures away a small child, but the girl is saved by Van Helsing and Arthur. Arthur refuses to use Lucy as a means to find Dracula, so Van Helsing stakes Lucy in her coffin.
Van Helsing and Arthur travel to the customs house in Ingstadt to track down the destination of Dracula's coffin (which Van Helsing saw carried away when he arrived at Dracula's castle). Meanwhile, Mina is called away from home by a message telling her to meet Arthur at an address in Karlstadt — the same address Arthur and Van Helsing are told the coffin was bound for — and Dracula is indeed waiting for her...
The next morning, Arthur and Van Helsing find Mina in a strange state. They leave for the address they were given, an undertaker's, but find the coffin missing. When they decide to set off again, Arthur tries to give Mina a cross to wear, but it burns her.
During the night, Van Helsing and Arthur guard Mina's windows outside against a return of Dracula, but Dracula nonetheless appears inside the house and bites her. A remark by the maid leads Van Helsing to the coffin's location: the cellar of the Holmwoods' own house. But Dracula is not in the coffin and instead escapes into the night with Mina.
A chase then begins as Dracula rushes to return to his castle near Klausenberg before sunrise. He attempts to bury Mina alive outside the crypts but is caught by Van Helsing and Arthur. Inside the castle, Van Helsing and Dracula struggle. Van Helsing tears open the curtain to let in the sunlight and, forming a cross of candlesticks, he forces Dracula into it. Dracula crumbles into dust as Van Helsing looks on. Mina recovers, the cross-shaped scar fading from her hand as Dracula's ashes blow away, leaving only a ring behind.



Italiano

Jonathan Harker, in missione per conto del dottor Abraham Van Helsing, si infiltra come bibliotecario nel castello del Conte Dracula. L'impresa fallisce e Jonathan, pur essendo riuscito ad uccidere la sposa di Dracula, viene trasformato in vampiro. Quindi Van Helsing si reca al villaggio dove abitano la fidanzata di Jonathan, Lucy, suo fratello Arthur e la moglie Mina poiché Lucy è in pericolo siccome il Conte Dracula ha intenzione di sostituirla a sua moglie. Lucy diventa vampiro, ma Van Helsing e Arthur riescono a salvarla.
I due cercano di rintracciare la destinazione della bara di Dracula (che aveva lasciato il castello, così come Van Helsing è arrivato lì). Nel frattempo, Mina riceve una lettera nella quale è scritto di andare a un indirizzo molto lontano da casa per incontrare Arthur. La mattina dopo, Arthur e Van Helsing trovano Mina in uno strano stato. In seguito Van Helsing riesce a trovare Dracula e combattono finché Dracula non viene esposto alla luce del sole e diventa cenere.

Français

Jonathan Harker se rend dans les Carpates chez le comte Dracula qui l'a engagé comme bibliothécaire. Mordu par une femme-vampire, il devient vampire à son tour. Son ami Van Helsing va libérer son âme et pourchasser Dracula, afin de le détruire.



Español

La existencia del Conde Drácula ha sido descubierta por Jonhatan Harker y el Doctor Van Helsing, quien ha estudiado el vampirismo durante toda su vida.
Decididos a acabar con la existencia de Drácula, Harker viaja hasta el castillo del Conde, arguyendo tomar el puesto de bibliotecario, pero con el secreto fin de matarlo. Una vez allí conoce a una mujer vampiro, prisionera de Drácula, que le pide ayuda. A continuación conoce al Conde, que queda sorprendido con un daguerrotipo de la prometida de Harker, Lucy. Harker queda atrapado en el castillo y es atacado por la mujer vampiro. Antes de transformarse él mismo en un No-Muerto, intenta acabar con Drácula pero sólo consigue matar a la mujer vampiro antes de ser derrotado por Drácula, quien desaparece.
Mientras tanto, Van Helsing va en busca de su amigo, al que encuentra en el castillo descansando en un ataúd, con evidentes signos de vampirismo, por lo que se ve obligado a clavarle una estaca en el pecho.
De regreso a la ciudad, Van Helsing se acerca a casa de Lucy a dar la noticia de la muerte de Harker, pero encuentra a Lucy muy enferma; con la ayuda de Mina, la esposa de Arthur, hermano de Lucy, Van Helsing logra examinarla y descubrir que Dracula se está vengando de la muerte de la mujer vampiro, atacando a Lucy, y aunque Van Helsing intenta ayudarla, Lucy termina por convertirse en un Muerto Viviente, que ataca a los niños de alrededor. Convencido de la espantosa situación de su hermana, Arthur decide ayudar a Van Helsing a destruir a Drácula, una vez liberada el alma de Lucy.
Sin embargo, mientras ellos se dedican a seguirle la pista a Drácula, éste aprovecha que Mina se encuentra sola y la ataca. Descubierto, la rapta y regresa a su castillo a toda prisa, perseguido por Arthur y Van Helsing, quienes por fin le dan alcance.
En el enfrentamiento final, Van Helsing logra que Drácula quede expuesto a la luz del sol y muera, convertido en ceniza.