Dracula is barely in this Hammer film about Professor Van
Helsing hunting Chinese vampires in China. He was apparently stuck in at the beginning and the end of the movie as a sop to the audience, who were probably confused about the mixing of the vampire and
kung fu film genres. To further confuse the audience Dracula is made up to look like a drag queen.

The movie has Peter
Cushing as Professor Van
Helsing who is in China lecturing when he is approached by a man who asks his help in ridding his village of vampires. The man has a family of
siblings who are trained in
kung fu and along with Van
Helsing and his wimp of a son, they travel across China beating up the golden vampires.
The
kung fu action is the old style stuff where the fighters can't leap through the air defying gravity but it's still good. The movie is an exploitation piece for the most part. There is a incredibly stupid scene where Chinese woman are sacrificed to the golden vampires. The sacrifice involves having the women run around topless and has nothing to do with anything.
The movie also has a Norwegian "actress" named Julie
Ege, who has a very large bosom. Her performance consists of cowering in terror every time the vampires attack and slowly peeling her clothes off. Apparently these were the roles she usually got in Britain, and she ended up quitting the movie business, went back to Norway and retrained as a nurse which she unsurprisingly told people was more personally rewarding for her. If you're looking for cheese cake pictures of her sorry you'll have to google her.
Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, is entertaining junk that is worth watching because Peter
Cushing is in it but it you are want to see a good film with vampires and
kung fu, then check out
Mr. Vampire.
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