UNMADE MOVIES: HAMMER HORROR'S THE UNQUENCHABLE THIRST OF DRACULA
by Anthony Hinds
read by Miscellaneous
running time 1hr 30mins
Dracula travels to 1930s India in this celebrated unproduced Hammer Horror script, directed by Mark Gatiss. 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....