Dracula (1958)
Hammer's 1958 Dracula made the vampire physical, sexual, and bloody. Christopher Lee plays Dracula, and the performance redefined the role.
Melissa Stribling played Mina in Hammer’s Dracula, and Terence Fisher’s direction of her in one scene, telling her to play it as though returning from a satisfying night, is a well-known example of how the studio conveyed sexuality past the censors. She was married to the director Basil Dearden.