After attempting to modernize their popular Dracula franchise with DRACULA, A.D. 1972, Hammer produced a follow-up film, THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA, which again finds the Count revived in a modern day setting. Taking place two years after the events of DRACULA, A.D. 1972, the film opens with the dramatic escape of an undercover agent from the Pellham House Of Psychic Examination. After witnessing a satanic ritual there, the agent returns to MI5 and dies on the operating table from the strain of relating his horrifying tale of a girl sacrificed on an altar in the presence of some of the biggest names in government secrets. Assuming that black magic may be involved, Inspector Murray (Coles) suggests to his superior, Torrence (Franklyn) that they consult with occult expert Lorrimer Van Helsing (Cushing), who is the modern day descendant of the great vampire hunter. Van Helsing discovers that he knows one of the men who attended the ritual, Professor Keeley (Jones), and pays him a visit, learning that Keeley has been working on a lethal strain of plague virus for a mysterious benefactor. Before Van Helsing can learn more about Keeley's employer, someone breaks in and takes a shot at him. When he awakens, he finds Keeley hanging from a rope. Meanwhile, Inspector Murray, Torrence and Van Helsing's granddaughter, Jessica (Lumley) go to Pellham House. While they are searching the grounds, they discover a cache of female vampires in the basement. Barely escaping from the basement with their lives, they return to Van Helsing's office to compare notes. Van Helsing begins to suspect that Keeley's employer, a man who has never been seen and who is headquartered in a building recently constructed on the very spot Van Helsing killed Dracula two years before can only mean his most hated foe has somehow returned. As he begins to fashion a silver bullet, Van Helsing begins to ponder the implications of some of the most important men in British government in thrall to Dracula and in possession of Keeley's killer plague virus…
1. The Satanic Rites Of Dracula Main Title 2:15
2. Hanson Escapes From Pelham House 3:48
3. Hanson's Debriefing 1:16
4. Baptism Of Blood 2:30
5. Follow That Car (Unused) 0:27
6. The Blood Ritual Concludes 2:03
7. Van Helsing Visits The Keeley Foundation 1:59
8. Van Helsing Suspects/Dracula Appears To Jane 2:27
9. Van Helsing Shot/Keeley's Fate 1:27
10. Almost A Snack 4:22
11. Escape From Pelham House (Unused) 1:37
12. The Face Of The Enemy/Van Helsing's Theory 0:51
13. Beatnik Sniper 0:39
14. Silver Bullet 0:51
15. Hunted By Beatniks 2:33
16. Mr. Denham's Guest 1:32
17. A Snack For Chin Yang/Escape From The Basement 3:20
18. The Satanic Rites Of Dracula 6:49
19. Murray Rescues Jessica/Underneath The Hawthorne Tree/The End Of The Count 7:52
20. The Satanic Rites Of Dracula Main Title (Reprise) 2:15
21. Wild Organ 4:06
Total Time: 54:59
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