Description
Dracula travels to 1930s India in this celebrated unproduced Hammer Horror script directed by Mark Gatiss
The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures spectacular scripts from worldrenowned writers that could have been classics had they only been made Now for the first time some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life fully realised as vivid cinematic radio productions Scripted by major 20th Century writers including Harold Pinter Arthur Miller Alfred Hitchcock and Dennis Potter they star a host of Alist actors and feature richly evocative atmospheric soundtracks
In The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula one of seven unmade movies available on audio it is 1934 and young Englishwoman Penny is travelling by train across India in search of her missing sister En route she meets sibling artistes Prem and Lakshmi who have been hired by a Maharajah and his wife the Rani to entertain their aristocratic European guest But evil lurks in the hidden caverns beneath the ancient palace where the acolytes of a fiendish blood cult await their next human sacrifice
The intended followup to Scars of Dracula this exotic blooddrenched tale was nearly filmed on location in India in the early 70s but financing problems meant it was dropped in favour of Dracula AD 1972 Rescued from Hammers vaults it has been resurrected by Mark Gatiss and is the first new Hammer Horror Dracula production in 43 years It stars Anna Madeley All Creatures Great and Small as Penny with Nikesh Patel Indian Summers as Prem Ayesha Dharker The Indian Doctor as Lakshmi and Meera Syal Goodness Gracious Me as the Rani Lewis MacLeod Dead Ringers channels Christopher Lee as the iconic Count and Michael Sheen Staged narrates Get ready for a terrifying edgeofyourseat encounter as the Prince of Darkness rises from his grave once more
Production credits
Written by Anthony Hinds
Directed by Mark Gatiss
Produced by Laurence Bowen and Peter Ettedgui
Original music by Blair Mowat
Sound design Wilfredo Acosta
A Dancing Ledge production for BBC Radio 4
Cast
Narrator Michael Sheen
Penny Anna Madeley
Prem Nikesh Patel
Lakshmi Ayesha Dharker
Babu Kulvinder Ghir
The Rani/Mrs Mukherjee Meera Syal
Count Dracula Lewis MacLeod
Maharajah/Inspector Raj Ghatak
Lucy Natalie Kimmerling
Evil Face Sagar Arya
First broadcast BBC Radio 4 28 October 2017
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