Blooper

When the bell-ringer arrives at the church at the beginning of the movie he leaves his bicycle on the steps of the front door. When the priest arrives and rushes to investigate the screaming, the bicycle is no longer there.

Throughout the film, whenever the coal fire in the bakery is shown, it is accompanied by a wood fire crackling sound. Coal fires do not make such a sound.

Dracula breaks through a window in Maria's room trying to escape, but we see Maria later and the window is unbroken. Later still, we see the Priest break through the the same (and now boarded-up) window.

When the village priest runs away from the Castle, he falls over and down a slope. When he hits the ground, you see blood on his forehead which subsequently disappears and reappears between shots.

The priest and Monsignor must make a treacherous climb up the mountains to get to Dracula's castle in order to exorcise it. What happened to the dirt road that the Kents were able to easily use in the previous movie?

At the beginning of the film, the young woman hanging inside the bell has neatly shaved armpits. Women did not begin shaving their armpits until the 1920s, and no turn-of-the-century European peasant girl would indulge in such preening.

The first scene in the church. Blood is dripping from the inside of the church bell, through the hole and down the rope. Unless it has anti-gravity properties, however, it should not be also on the outside of the bell nor on the underside of the hole (but it is).

The monsignor removes the central cross from the local church to use against Dracula. Roman Catholic churches always use a crucifix (with Christ on the Cross) so a central cross would not be appropriate.

When the priest in Dracula's power overturns the coffin to remove its "occupant", Gisela Heinz, the actress playing her puts her hand out to steady herself.

Upon Dracula's resurrection, his jacket as well as the rest of his clothing are pristine, not to mention completely dry. This after he was seen laying in the icy water for over one year.

The cross that the Monsignor takes from the church is clearly made of wood with gold foil and/or paint (apparent from the ease with which he handles it, and also when it is seen in close-up as he converses with the frightened Priest on the mountainside). However, when it falls from the cliff in the final sequence, the (over-dubbed) sound it makes as it hits the rocks suggests it to be made of solid metal.

When the priest exhumes the coffin of Gisela Heinz (the girl who had been suspended in the bell), we see that, although her body shows signs of decay, her breast has fresh, bright red blood on it (presumably from a staking-wound, as a potential vampire). However, after several months in the grave, her blood should not still be fresh and bright - unless she *is* a vampire and is still 'alive'/undead, although wounded.

When the priest is destroying Zena the bunching edges of his wig appliance are quite evident.

The scene in which Zena is walking along the road at nighttime, just before the coach chases her: as the scene fades in, there is an audible "click" and the light suddenly changes (probably due to the cameraman adjusting the day-for-night filter). Alternatively this could be because dissolves at this time were done by creating a new, double-exposure clip that would be edited into the film. Since this clip would be one further generation removed from the negative, going in and out of dissolves would often include a noticeable change in picture quality, which is what the change in light is here-you can see the same change in light at the *start* of the same dissolve, in the previous shot. There is a click (or more accurately a clunk) on the soundtrack when this dissolve ends, at the moment it cuts out of the dissolve and the light changes, but it seems to be coincidental. If using a filter to help achieve day-for-night, it's highly unlikely that anyone would be putting it on or adjusting it in the middle of a take, or that the sound of it happening would make it onto the film's soundtrack.

The priest sees Dracula's reflection in the waters of the mountain but vampires do not cast reflections.

This movie supposedly takes place one year after "Dracula - Prince Of Darkness". In "Horror Of Dracula", the story takes place, according to Jonathan Harker's diary, somewhere around 1887. In "Dracula - Prince Of Darkness", Father Sandor claims that it is about 10 years since Dracula's destruction, i.e. about 1897. Thus, "Dracula Has Risen From The Grave" should take place in 1898 if a year has passed. However, the inscription-plate on the coffin which the priest steals for Dracula gives the dates of Gisela Heinz's life as 1885-1905 - several years *after* the apparent setting. Consistency can only be maintained if we assume that in "Prince of Darkness", Father Sandor was speaking loosely, and meant *over* ten years had passed.

Scenes in the day following Maria's seduction / attack include her being visited by her guardians (in daylight) and Paul studying in his room (at sunset). Between these is a scene in the sewer, in which Dracula's empty coffin is seen and a figure (presumably Dracula) passes the street-level grating, blocking out the light. This strongly implies that Dracula is returning to his coffin during daylight hours. Whilst this would certainly be acceptable behavior for Bram Stoker's original character (who was merely inconvenienced by sunlight), it is a serious continuity error in the Hammer series, which established (in "Dracula" - 1958) that any exposure to sunlight will decompose a vampire to dust.

When Paul stakes Dracula in the tavern basement, the Priest says that Paul must also say a prayer otherwise Dracula will not die. Not only is this not true in general vampire lore, it is not true in the previous films in this series of Hammer films. Vampires have been staked and destroyed without saying a prayer afterwards.

Vampires don't have reflections yet Dracula is reflected on Maria's bedroom window.