February 13 - 7:00pm

Dracula

Terrence Fisher (1958) 82 mins M

Hammer's epoch-making movie deploys a poetic, subtle ironic, realism. A startling, seductive portrait of the frighteningly powerful aristocratic Count, with impeccable performances from the greatest duo in horror history: Christopher Lee (Dracula) and Peter Cushing (Van Helsing, but it is Fisher's uncanny sense of atmosphere, rhythm and colour and his ability to build sequences in parallel action converging in a seingle shot that makes this one of the most thrilling films made in Britain.

New 35mm restoration courtesy of the British Film Institute.

Preceded by George Melies' "Tales of Terror" 7mins. 3 trick films by the great pioneer - The Megalomaniac (1903), The Monster (1903) & The Terrible Turkish Executioner (1904).

Followed at 8.45pm by Night of the Eagle (Burn, Witch, Burn).