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Roy Ward Baker was an English film director born in London on 19 December 1916. His best known film is A Night to Remember which won a Golden Globe for best foreign English language film in 1959. His later career was varied, and included many horror films and television shows. Baker worked for television during the 1960s and early 1970s, directing shows including The Avengers, The Saint, The Persuaders!, The Human Jungle, The Champions, and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). He continued to work in films, directing, among others, Quatermass and the Pit (1967), The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Scars of Dracula (1970) for Hammer, and Asylum (1972) and The Vault of Horror (1973) for Amicus. He also directed Bette Davis in the black comedy The Anniversary (1968), and co-directed (with Hong Kong director Chang Cheh) the Hammer-Shaw Brothers Studio collaboration The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974).
Roy Ward Baker
Director
for Director in The Brides of Dracula
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The eleventh installment in the Universal Monsters Universe and a sequel to the "Dracula" pick. It's been 34 years since the destruction of Dracula, in such time, the son of Jonathan and Mina has grown up, now Quincey Harker has a family of his own, with a wife and a daughter. One evening, Quincey receives a letter from Countess Mircalla, in which she asks them for the property rights to buy Carfax abbey. Quincey gives the property to her and from then on, the family babysitter, Laura Bloom, has been having nightmares about a woman that visits her on her dreams. During one of those days, Quincey receives a letter from Van Helsing in which his wife describes a similar nightmare from that of Laura, but instead of a woman, is a man. Van Helsing suspects that Dracula might be alive. Together, Quincey and Van Helsing find out that Mircalla was actually a princess called Carmilla, Dracula's lover. She has been able to revive him and now he wants revenge against the Harkers and Van Helsing, by turning Miranda, Johanna and Laura into his new brides. The post credits scene shows Germany 1939, a nazi troop enters into Van Helsing's house and nazi doctor, Heinrich Von Frankenstein steals the diary of Victor Frankenstein
