Trivia / Taste the Blood of Dracula

• Cast the Runner-Up: Martin Jarvis was first offered a more major role, then was not free for the dates.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The film originally wouldn't have featured Dracula at all. Instead, the villain would've been Lord Courtley (played by Ralph Bates), a follower of Dracula who would've been transformed into a vampire. When the film's distributor objected, a reluctant Christopher Lee was brought back. Bates was subsequently given the lead role in the same year's Horror of Frankenstein to make up for it.
  • Some writers have claimed that Vincent Price was going to play a fourth member of the Thrill Seekers but budget cuts removed the character so his part was shared among the other three.

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