In a three year period, Veronica Carlson was terrorized onscreen by three of Hammer Studios’ most famous male villains: Christopher Lee as Dracula in the 1968 film Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Peter Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969), and David Prowse (best known for playing Darth Vader) as the Frankenstein monster in, of course, The Horror of Frankenstein (1970). In 1974, she ran up against her second vampire count (David Niven) in Old Dracula. A year later she reunited with Peter Cushing onscreen in The Ghoul (1975). In 1995, she co-starred with Gunnar Hansen, who played Leatherface in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in the straight-to-video flick Freakshow.
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Linda Hayden starred in her second film, Taste The Blood of Dracula, when she was only sixteen years old. Her debut had come two years earlier, playing sultry teenage slut Luci in the erotic exploitation flick Baby Love. In Taste The Blood of Dracula, the sexy teenager went up against one of the most imposing screen vampires of all time: Christopher Lee’s Dracula. This was Hayden’s only role in a Hammer film, but not her only role in the horror genre. She went on to star with such notable horror actors as Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. She also went up against David Niven as Dracula in Vampira (aka Old Dracula) in 1974. This film also featured fellow Hammer Hottie Veronica Carlson in a small role.
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