The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1979) on Netflix

While lecturing in China, Van Helsing agrees to help seven kung fu trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves.

Count Dracula journeys to a remote Chinese village in the guise of a warlord to support six vampires who are dispirited after the loss of a seventh member of their cult. At the same time, vampire hunter Prof. Van Helsing happens to be lecturing in the country and is persuaded by villagers to help them fight this curse of the ages.

—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

In 1804, in Transylvania, a Chinese walker heads to the castle of Dracula. He awakes Dracula from his tomb and explains that he is Kah, the High Priest of the Seven Golden Vampires in China that are powerless. He needs Dracula to restore their power and the vampire takes Kah's body and image. One hundred years later, Professor Laurence Van Helsing gives a lecture at a Chinese university about the legend of the Seven Golden Vampires but the students leave the auditorium finding that the all the exposition is superstition. However the student Hsi Ching meets Van Helsing at home and tells that the legend is true and he knows the location of the vampires. Van Helsing accepts to travel to the village in the countryside to help to destroy the vampires and the wealthy widow Mrs. Vanessa Buren, who has befriend his son Leyland Van Helsing, offers to sponsor the expedition provided she may go with them. Soon they embark with seven siblings skilled in kung-fu in a dangerous expedition to destroy the Golden Vampires and Dracula.

—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This is the 9th film in Hammer's Dracula series. Christopher Lee ain't present in this one n Peter Cushing reprises his role of Van Helsing for the 4th time. In 20th century, Van Helsing is a lecturer in China whose theory about a village terrorized by seven vampires is dismissed by his students except for one student whose grandfather was killed by the same seven vampires. He asks Van Helsing if he would be willing to travel to the village and destroy the vampires. Van Helsing agrees and embarks with his son, the student n the student's seven kung fu expert brothers. The dangerous journey is funded by a wealthy widow who was saved by the kung fu brothers. Old Van Helsing ain't aware that his arch enemy, Count Dracula has migrated to the same village 100 years back n it is he who commands the seven vampires n an army of the undead.

—Fella_shibby@yahoo.com

Hammer Films meets chop-socky Hong Kong. While lecturing in the Far East, Professor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) tells his students of a doomed village in China that becomes cursed every year at the time of the 7th moon. Van Helsing is persuaded by a family of kung fu experts to rid the village of the 7 vampires that torment its citizens.

—Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>