Christopher Lee declined to reprise his role as Dracula in this Hammer genre-bender and one can see why as Dracula is utterly superfluous to the plot. Hammer got together with the Shaw Brothers of Hong Kong to produce a hybrid movie, something like The Seven Samurai with supernatural trappings. Peter Cushing did agree to play Van Helsing , accompanying seven Chinese brothers ( and their ass-kicking sister ) on an expedition to free a village from the vampire threat.
Jessica Ege ( as Vanessa Buren )
Sex : Vanessa's top gets transparent in the later stages of the film
Death : Staked as a vampire
Julie was a Norwegian model who appeared in Penthouse and broke into films in the late sixties. She made her biggest impression as Voluptua in Up Pompeii and generally did comedy rather than horror films. She gave up acting in the eighties and became a nurse instead. She died of breast cancer in 2004 aged 64.
Shih Szu ( as Mai Kwei )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Shih was a Taiwanese actress and a regular performer in the Shaw Brothers' martial arts movies. Her profile faded in the early eighties and she returned to Taiwan. She retired around 1988. She is now 64.
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