Lee is entertaining as always; his Rasputin is intense and very strange. The film lacks a good foil for him, though, and in fact no one else has very much personality at all. The arc the story will take is plain to see from early on, especially if you know "the true story." By the climax, I was eager to see Rasputin get poisoned, shot, drowned, stabbed, and hung, but I suppose the filmmakers thought that would be over the top. Disappointing.

"Lee's riotous, low-throated interpretation of the back-stabbing mystic is something to behold." - Eric Henderson

The first Hammer Horror film I really did not enjoy. It didn't interest me from the start and even with a rather entertaining ending the rest of the film was incredibly dull and Rasputin was a very unlikeable character I really didn't enjoy watching. Acting was decent, and Christopher Lee was totally unrecognisable at first, but its the storyline and characters that really let this film down, and I have a feeling it will probably be my least favourite from the Hammer Horror films I'm watching.

Christopher Lee plays a great Rasputin!

This Don Sharp doesn't seem interested in anything here... Just total fucking bullshit.

Serviceable bio of Russia's sex machine, but for some reason they skipped over all the best parts of Rasputin's historic death!

3 points for the "insane mad eyes"