Trivia / Horror of Dracula

• Billing Displacement: Despite playing the title character, Christopher Lee is actually billed fourth in the opening credits, behind Peter Cushing (who's Billed Above the Title), Michael Gough and Melissa Stribling. The closing credits list him second after Cushing.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Brazil: The Night Vampire
  • Greece: Dracula, the Vampire of the Carpathians
  • Italy: Dracula the Vampire
  • Japan: Vampire Dracula
  • Turkey: Dracula's Death
• Edited for Syndication: When the film was shown on British TV in 1987, a few scenes had been trimmed before the broadcast. The most significant was the scene where Lucy Holmwood is staked.
• Missing Episode: The filming of Dracula's destruction included a shot in which Dracula appears to peel away his decaying skin. This was accomplished by putting a layer of red make-up on Christopher Lee's face, and then covering his entire face with a thin coating of mortician's wax, which was then made up to conform to his normal skin tone. When he raked his fingers across the wax, it revealed the "raw" marks underneath. This startling sequence was cut out, but was restored for the 2012 Blu-ray release, using footage from a badly damaged Japanese print.
• No Stunt Double: Peter Cushing did the stunt where he leaps over a banister himself. He insisted on doing so, against the studio's concerns that he might injure himself.
• Short Run in Peru: It had its world premiere in Milwaukee as part of a double feature with The Thing That Couldn't Die, two weeks before it premiered in London.
• Throw It In!: Two involving the film's climax:
  • Originally, the film's climax involved Van Helsing running over to the window and pulling down the curtains, letting in the sunlight. Peter Cushing suggested having Van Helsing leap from a balcony to pull down the curtains, with himself doing the stunt. Due to budget and safety concerns, they compromised with a long table rather than a balcony, and a stunt man rather than Cushing.
  • Van Helsing was to then pull a crucifix out of his pocket to drive Dracula into the sunlight. Peter Cushing objected to using the crucifix, since he'd left one in Dracula's casket in an earlier scene, and he didn't want to seem like he was a "crucifix salesman" with an endless supply. So, he came up with the idea of using the candlesticks as a cross.

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