Unmade Movies: Hammer Horror's Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula

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Michael Sheen

Anna Madeley

Nikesh Patel

Ayesha Dharker

Kulvinder Ghir

Meera Syal

Lewis Macleod

Raj Ghatak

Natalie Kimmerling

Sagar IM Arya

Mark Gatiss

Laurence Bowen

Peter Ettedgui

Drama on 4: Unmade Movies: Hammer Horror's The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula

Hammer Horror's The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula

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Dracula travels to 1930s India in this celebrated unmade Hammer Horror script.

As part of the second season of Radio 4's Unmade Movies, Mark Gatiss directs an unmade Hammer Horror Dracula script, set in 1930s India.

Dracula travels to 1930s India in this celebrated unproduced Hammer Horror feature film script, part of BBC Radio 4 Unmade Movies series.

It's 1932 and Penny (Anna Madeley), a young British woman, travels secretly and alone by train through the heart of India, in search of her sister who has recently disappeared. In her first class carriage she meets Prem (Nikesh Patel) and Lakshmi (Ayesha Dharker), a brother and sister performing duo who have been hired for one night by a Maharajah. 

Babu (Kulvinder Ghir), who also shares the carriage, is horrified to learn that Penny is unaccompanied and insists that she stays with him and his wife near the caves she is visiting. Prem and Lakshmi are taken by chauffeur to the sinister residence of the Maharajah and his wife the Rani (Meera Syal) and asked to perform that night. 

The performance is not for the Maharajah though but his new guest, Count Dracula (Lewis MacLeod).

While Lakshmi, soon separated from her brother, finds herself in great danger as she begins to dance for Dracula, Penny makes her way into the hidden cavern beneath the Maharajah's Palace where she is shocked to discover Prem, desperately searching for his sister. As they descend a hidden stone staircase inhabited by poisonous snakes, they soon find themselves looking out on a huge underground chamber full of hundreds of the Rani's acolytes, all waiting for her next human sacrifice to satisfy their blood cult. 

Will it be Lakshmi? And has Penny's sister already met a similar fate? 

It's a race against time to get answers before all of them fall under the spell of the hypnotic Count.


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