This is, objectively speaking, a bad movie. It is rendered watchable by a few good preformances and one or two interesting ideas. By the end, however, it looks like the budget ran out or the makers lost interest. As I mentioned, there are a couple of good ideas - particularly that Dracula wishes to end it all by destroying the world. The nudity is less cheesy than in some other Hammer films of the period which is a relief. The biggest letdown, given that the film tries to be as much a thriller as a horror, is that the action scenes are very poor. The climax in particular leaves poor Drac looking very dim and impotent. He's a far cry from the dynamic figure who revolutionised the character's image in Dracula (AKA Horror of Dracula).
Review of The Satanic Rites of Dracula
