The film stars Rupert Davies as a clergyman who exorcises Dracula's castle, and in doing so, unwittingly resurrects the Count back from the dead.

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave also stars Veronica Carlson, Barry Andrews, Barbara Ewing, Ewan Hooper, and Michael Ripper.

Monsignor Ernst Mueller comes to the village on a routine visit only to find the altar boy is now a frightened mute and the priest has lost his faith.

The priest desecrates a coffin to provide a sleeping place for Dracula and leads him to Keinenberg, where the Count determines to take his revenge on Mueller's beautiful niece, Maria.

The priest, freed from the vampire's influence, recites the Lord's Prayer in Latin before collapsing and Dracula perishes, dissolving into dust.

Initially Terence Fisher was to direct the film, but dropped out after breaking his leg in an automobile accident; Freddie Francis stepped in.

[citation needed] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The good news of the risen Count and the sight of the familiar hearse speeding by night through the Transylvanian woods will once more rally the faithful perhaps, but they may find this new adventure rather short on shock sequences.

There is, though, a nice gory opening (Dracula impaled like a butterfly on a large gilt cross) and a suitably horrific finale (a bleeding corpse hanging upside-down from a church bell), and Freddie Francis has managed a few pleasing colour compositions.

Connoisseurs will notice that the film is considerably more explicit than usual in revealing the sexual basis of the vampire legend.

For the rest, Christopher Lee is his customary suave self as Dracula, but the acting honours really go to Barbara Ewing as the jealous Zena, who dies with an expression of triumphant and satisfied lust frozen on her face.

"[4] Variety called the film "a tired episode," adding, "The story's slight, the horror and the bloodcurdling essential to these pix is minimal and even Dracula himself appears bored at being resurrected yet again.

[8] On 6 October 2015, the film was released on Blu-ray as part of a Hammer collection pack with The Mummy, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, and Taste the Blood of Dracula.