Dracula, vampires, and kung fu fighters : The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires and transnational horror co-production in 1970s Hong Kong

Sangjoon LEE*

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Abstract

The hybrid genre film, The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, incorporates the genre conventions of kung fu and those associated with Dracula. Lee analyzes this unique Hong Kong-UK transnational horror co-production in which Count Dracula goes to early twentieth-century China, and Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) teams up with Chinese martial arts brothers to fight against seven golden vampires, and ultimately Dracula, who takes over the body of the Chinese villain, Kahn. Reading The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires entails that we should situate the film in terms of its geopolitical and generic positions in Hong Kong and the UK film history and legacy. Lee provides much-needed critical insight into the politics and poetics of transnational co-productions.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTransnational Horror Cinema : Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque
EditorsSophia SIDDIQUE, Raphael RAPHAEL
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages65-80
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9781137584175
ISBN (Print)9781137584168
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes

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