Count Dracula, or just Dracula, is the titular main antagonist of the Hammer series of Dracula films starting with the 1958 horror film Horror of Dracula. He is loosely based on the character from the Bram Stoker novel. He is an evil vampire who preys on humans and rules the dead who is killed several times, but comes back to life again and again through various different circumstances from sheere accidents to intentional incantations via black messes. During the first seven movies the bloodthirsty Count was famously portrayed by the late Sir Christopher Lee, who also played Frankenstein's Monster in The Curse of Frankenstein, Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man, Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun, King Haggard in The Last Unicorn, Kato in Mio, My Son, Cushing Catheter in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Saruman in Sir Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies and Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequel films. In the final Hammer Dracula-Film Lee had no further interest to reprise the part due to the ridiculous script, so the late british actor John Forbes-Robertson took over as Count Dracula.