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In this 1974 vampire feature, Film/HammerHorror [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] Creator/ShawBrothers Kung Fu cinema.

In 1804, a man named Kah awakens Dracula from his slumber and asks him to help bring his masters, the Seven Golden Vampires, back to power. Dracula instead decides to take the whole operation over and sets out for China.

A hundred years later, Professor Van Helsing (Creator/PeterCushing) is lecturing in China but is about to leave as his vampire theories have been met with disbelief. He then meets Hsi Ching (Creator/DavidChiang), who tells him that his home village is under the Golden Vampires' terror and asks for his help. Van Helsing agrees and sets out his son Leyland (Creator/RobinStewart), Hsi Ching, and Ching's brothers and sister to the village.

This movie was the [[{{Pun}} stake through Hammer's heart]]; they made no more Dracula movies after this.

The Shaws would collaborate with Hammer studios again in the same year, in the spy-espionage thriller ''Film/{{Shatter}}''.
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!!Examples in this movie:

* ActionGirl: Mai Kwei (Creator/ShihSzu) fights as well as her brother. As she gets captured in the ending and Leyland has to rescue her, that makes her a BadassInDistress.
* AdrenalineMakeover: Leyland begins the film as something of a dandy fully suited up, and even dressed rather too fancily when the expedition first begins. As the action progresses and he falls for Mai Kwei, his clothes get steadily rougher, and he's eventually got MessyHair and an IntimateOpenShirt.
* AmazonChaser: Leyland shows interest in Mai Kewi as soon as she demonstrates her fighting prowess.
* BackToBackBadasses: Hsi's twin brothers stick close to each other in battle, holding hands so that each can tell where the other is and so that they can stay back to back or side by side while killing opponents with the swords in their free hands.
* BadassBystander:
** Vanessa's two attendants valiantly deploy knives and martial arts skills when a large group of Tong thugs attack her, although [[RedShirt neither of them lasts for more than thirty seconds.]]
** When the vampires raid the village for HumanSacrifice victims, many men of the village fight back with gardening tools (most of them in a crowd, and one who attacks a vampire single-handedly) or try to pull back women the vampires are dragging away. They don't accomplish much besides adding to the vampires' body count and demonstrating that the locals haven't yet given up.
** Several villagers who survive the raid join Van Helsing and his allies in fighting off a second attack, again at great costs, and they kill one of the golden vampires.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Vanessa is excited by the idea of the expedition, even when she hears how dangerous it is. Naturally once she's experienced days of hiking without much rest or running water, she's not thrilled (but does take it in good spirits all the same).
* BilingualDialogue: Kah in the pre-credits sequence speaks Chinese to Dracula, who understands him perfectly.
* BlingBlingBang: The 7 Golden Vampires wield golden swords.
* BodySnatcher: Instead of helping a mere minion, Dracula takes over Kah's body when he decides to go to China.
* CarryABigStick: Chi-Tao fights with a spiked club.
* ChineseVampire: Used as hopping mooks to the more athletic European-style Golden Vampires.
* ClothingDamage: Vanessa goes through some during the journey to the village. She ultimately just tears her ruined top off to leave herself in a vest.
* CowerPower: Vanessa cowers behind Van Helsing during the fight against Leung Hon's mooks out in the field.
* DistressedDude: Although Leyland charges into the temple to rescue Mai Kwei at the end, he ends up in distress with the remaining vampire, and his father has to save him.
* DramaticThunder: Thunder rumbles in the background as Dracula dies in the end.
* DualWielding: Hsi Ta uses two axes and his sister Mai Kwei uses two [[DeviousDaggers daggers]].
* FamilialFoe:
** The descendants of his old foe Dr. Van Helsing (who are constantly showing up in Dracula stories) fight the evil Count Dracula.
** The 7 golden vampies clash with the eight grandchildren of two farmers who their army killed in the past. The grandfather got a DyingMomentOfAwesome that struck back at the monsters, so they have cause to remember his family.
* FanserviceExtra: The 7 Golden Vampires seem to ''really'' prefer their victims topless.
* FightsLikeANormal: Leyland lacks the martial arts skills and monster-hunting expertise of his companions (save Vanessa), but can still fight with a gun and packs a mean punch.
* GunStruggle: Leyland fights over a knife with one of Leung Hon's mooks, and stabs the guy.
* HeroSecretService: Hsi and his siblings follow Van Helsing and his son to protect them from vampires and thugs even before they officially ally to fight Dracula.
* HeroesFightBareHanded: Hsi fights assassins and vampires bare-handed rather than relying on weapons like his siblings, but is just as dangerous as they are.
* HooksAndCrooks: Some of the undead mooks attack Leyland with Chinese hook swords during the cave ambush.
* HumanSacrifice: The 7 Golden Vampires require sacrifices. Much of their terror comes from how they ride the countryside at night and snatch young girls to that end.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: One of Hsi-Ching's kills is a mook whose throat he clawed out... with his ''fingers''.
* KillItWithFire: Prof. Van Helsing makes good use of this trope, first by killing one of the Seven Golden Vampires by accidentally sticking a torch into it, and later giving the same fate to some mooks in the finale.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: The 7 Golden Vampires (golden masks) and their mooks (skull masks).
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler: Several of the brothers get killed in the climactic fight with the vampires. Mai Kwei however is taken prisoner to be used as a sacrifice, as only females seem to be used for that.]]
* MenOfSherwood: The local peasants constantly put up a valiant fight against vampiric raiders but lack the skill to be anything more than additional victims. During the climax, they're being backed up by Professor Van Helsing and a group of martial arts trained siblings and prove much more effective, helping to kill one of the eponymous vampiric overlords.
%%* MookChivalry
* MrFanservice: San frequently walks around with his shirt open, allowing the audience to see his physique.
* NeutralFemale: As Vanessa is the only one in the group who isn't a trained fighter, when the fighting begins, she keeps to the sidelines. Her role in the film is to finance the trip.
* NoImmortalInertia: Vampires and mooks turn to dust upon defeat.
* NumberOfObjectsTitle: 7 vampires as said in the title.
* PivotalWakeup: When Kah reaches Dracula's casket, he bows before it, causing the thing open by itself. Dracula then gets up with the power of this trope.
* RiseFromYourGrave: Dracula's undead mooks reside in their graves, until summoned by sounding a gong.
* SameLanguageDub: John Forbes-Robertson's lines were dubbed over by David de Keyser.
* ShipperOnDeck: Vanessa encourages the attraction between Leyland and Mai Kwei despite her own earlier chemistry with Leyland.
* SlashedThroat: Hsi Tien-en in the flashback, who manages to destroy one of the Golden Vampires, had his throat cut by the swords of two others.
* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler:Hsi Ching]] is forced to kill [[spoiler:Vanessa]] after she is turned into a vampire. Grieved over this and knowing that her bite will likely turn him soon, he kills himself as well.
* TakingYouWithMe: One of Hsi's brothers and one of the golden vampires get into a wrestling match and drag each other into a burning trench.
* TranshumanTreachery: [[spoiler: Vanessa turns evil pretty fast once she's bitten, and proceeds to attack Hsi Ching, her LoveInterest.]]
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Before all the vampire/zombie kung fu action, a more flesh and blood obstacle is presented for our heroes in the form of Leung Hon, a Tong leader in Ching Kun who wants to snatch Vanessa for himself.
* TrueBlueFemininity: ActionGirl Mai Kwei wears a blue outfit and is very refined in a SilkHidingSteel way.
* WhoDares: Dracula's first spoken lines.
-->"Who dares to disturb the sanctity of Dracula?"
* WorfHadTheFlu: Mai Kwei is taken prisoner at the end when a vampire knocks her off a ledge and catches her off guard, making it the only time in the movie an enemy is able to subdue her. She also isn't able to help Leyland fight the vampire because she's still partly chained up, and has only just freed herself by the time Van Helsing does the deed.
* WritersCannotDoMath: Dracula leaves his Transylvanian castle in 1804, and audience introduced to Van Helsing circa 1904. Despite this, Van Helsing claims that he has defeated Dracula in the past (100 years ago?).
* TheXOfY: The film's title
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