Count Dracula has traveled to the Far East in order to help in re-forming a powerful vampire sect that controls a small village. Unfortunately for Dracula, professor Van Helsing is in China doing a lecture series and is recruited by a family of master martial artists to help them rid their homeland of the remaining six vampires before Dracula can bring the evil cabal back to full power. Fangs meet fists in a battle of the living and undead, fought under the rising sun.

From the Hammer films horror stable comes one of their last ditch efforts to save the failing studio. The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires unites the fading horror genre of the late 60's and early 70's with the fast and furious rising of the mid 70's kung fu craze.

Whether you like Hammer horror films or not is irrelevant, if nothing else Hammer was not afraid to tackle a different version of a classic type of story. Much like Captain Kronos, Seven Golden Vampires is an original and entertaining film.

Peter Cushing once again plays Van Helsing the ultimate vampire hunter, but along with stakes, crosses and garlic, Van Helsing gets some katanas, Buddha statues and some serious fists of fury to help him not only whoop Dracula's ever living ass but also hordes of zombies! Other than Cushing there is no other star in this film and most of the other actors are Asian martial arts masters, and I can't even pronounce half their names.

The action is good and there are a few great creepy scenes, especially when the first zombies rise up, but if your not a fan of the Shaolin ninja movies this one would be better left on the shelf. But if you have ever wondered what would happen if Bruce Lee fought Dracula then this film is as close as your ever gonna get. A true genre mixing film.

6/10