{"id":40631,"date":"2023-08-11T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40631"},"modified":"2023-08-11T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:48:20","slug":"the-tomb-of-dracula-yami-no-teio-kyuketsuki-dorakyura-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/11\/the-tomb-of-dracula-yami-no-teio-kyuketsuki-dorakyura-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tomb of Dracula (Yami no Tei\u014d: Ky\u016bketsuki Dorakyura) (1985)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>DRACULA WEEK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Also known as \u201cDracula Sovereign of the Damned,\u201d and \u201cThe Emperor of Darkness: The Vampire Dracula,\u201d Toei\u2019s \u201cTomb of Dracula\u201d is loosely adapted from the \u201cThe Tomb of Dracula\u201d Marvel Book comic series published from 1972 to 1979. I like to think the Marvel comics are so much better than what Toei has offered fans, as they squeeze in all of those stories in to such a hastily made ninety minute movie. And you can tell there\u2019s so much here added in a rush as the movie is so badly made.<\/p>\n

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Count Dracula, lord of vampires and the sovereign of the damned, steals away a bride intended for Lucifer. Not only does this anger his dark creator but also a satanic cult and his fellow vampires. He finds that the sins of his past will not allow him to live a normal, mortal life. Events become complicated when he comes under attack from all sides, including his vampire hunting great-grandson and the children of others he murdered long ago.<\/p>\n

The animation is fine enough, but the potential for scares or terror is hindered by the terrible script and awful voice acting. Lest I forget the whole of the narrative which not only doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense, but also is so ridiculous it\u2019s inadvertently laugh out loud funny. It\u2019s so hard to pick out which scenes were my favorites. There\u2019s the head vampire hunter Hans Harker who has a dog with a collar donning a crucifix. The head vampire hunter Hans Harker tries to vet his side kick Frank Drake to test his martial arts skills by attacking him with a sword\u2014from his wheelchair.<\/p>\n

When Rachel Van Helsing tires of being hit on by Frank Drake, she shoots arrows at his feet rather than\u2014you know\u2014simply telling him to leave her alone. One of my favorite scenes though involves the trio of vampire killers trying to find a pattern to Dracula\u2019s kills. Not coincidentally, Dracula\u2019s string of murders all connect in to a giant bat formation. This leads Hans to presume that they\u2019re \u201cfinally on to something.\u201d Gee, do you think? The giant bat symbol didn\u2019t give anything away? And why did Dracula necessarily have to murder his victims in a bat formation? In either case, the narrative moves like molasses, and the characters do nothing but over explain and over talk (especially the gabby narrator) for what is a pretty convoluted story all things considered.<\/p>\n

I wish the slick animation could have been complimented by a great story line, but alas, the writers don\u2019t accomplish much at all. It\u2019s a fairly ridiculous and terrible movie, even if it\u2019s not at all the worst in the annals of Dracula movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DRACULA WEEK Also known as \u201cDracula Sovereign of the Damned,\u201d and \u201cThe Emperor of Darkness: The Vampire Dracula,\u201d Toei\u2019s \u201cTomb of Dracula\u201d is loosely adapted from the \u201cThe Tomb of Dracula\u201d Marvel Book comic series published from 1972 to 1979. I like to think the Marvel comics are so much better than what Toei has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,99,100,299,349,477,1087,1130,3039],"class_list":["post-40631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-animation","tag-anime","tag-dracula","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-thriller","tag-tv-movie","tag-vampire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40634,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631\/revisions\/40634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}