Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)After three distinguished English gentlemen (Geoffrey Keen, Peter Sallis and John Carson) accidentally resurrect Count Dracula, unknowingly killing a disciple of his (Ralph Bates) in the process, the Count seeks to avenge his dead servant by making the trio die at the hands of their own children. Scars of Dracula (1970)After a huge vampire bat drops blood on his ashes, Dracula rises again to trouble Simon (Dennis Waterman) and Sarah (Jenny Hanley), a couple on a lookout for Paul (Christopher Matthews), who had mysteriously disappeared a while back. Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)After Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) despatches Dracula to his grave in 1872, the Dark Lord is raised by Johnny Alucard (Christopher Neame) 100 years later in 1972, modern London. When the swinging trendies of London decide to experiment with a little devil-worshipping, the Count decides to move to his own bloody groove, preying on a group of young partygoers that includes the descendant of his nemesis, Van Helsing (Stephanie Beacham), and her grandfather (Peter Cushing). The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)After an expert vampire researcher (Michael Coles) is hired by the British Secret Service (Richard Vernon) to investigate the mysterious death of an agent (Maurice O'Connell) who died while working to expose a Satanic cult led by Chin Yang (Barbara Yu Ling), who seek to use Mia Martin to summon back Dracula to help develop a new strain of bubonic plague, with the evil intention of annihilating all life on Earth, they turn to Lorrimer Van Helsing and his granddaughter (Joanna Lumley) for assistance. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)Professor Van Helsing and his son (Robin Stewart) are hired later in 1904 after giving a lecture at a Chinese university to take on a group of seven sword-wielding vampires wearing gold masks, resurrected by Count Dracula (John Forbes-Robertson and David de Keyser). Feature films Cast and characters Crew Influence Upon publishing extracts of their screenplay for Anno Dracula in an updated version of the first book in the series, author Kim Newman revealed the film would use the likeness of Peter Cushing to represent the severed head of the deceased Van Helsing, establishing elements of the Hammer Productions Dracula film series as the backdrop for the film adaptation's events, specifically an imagined alternate ending to the 1958 Dracula film. The fourth book in the series, subtitled Johnny Alucard, follows the character of