With Hammer there have always been rumors of foreign prints that had the bits cut by the British and US censors intact, primarily in Japan. With Dracula, the rumors were true. There's an extension of the seduction of Mina, but most importantly in the ending as has been evidenced by still for decades...Christopher Lee reaches up to his own face and the skin comes off down all the way to his chin. This would be in the sequence before the dummy is shown and is actually Lee in makeup and effects. I was fascinated by stills of this as a kid, because I thought it was such a fantastic image...never once did I think it would ever turn up.

http://www.hammerfilms.com/news/article/newsid/314/dracula-resurrected

Plus, the resurrected studio has been doing work on their titles for Blu-ray releases. Several have been done, and now Curse of Frankenstein has had the uncut shot of the eyeballs restored in a 4K scan from original IPs. The Blu-ray release is set to have both 1.66:1 and the full Academy camera aperture as a bonus version. Dracula and The Mummy are upcoming, with Dracula having the lost parts restored. There is still debate on the correct color tone and saturation of Drac, between the 2007 BFI restoration and the US editions.

In any case the awful WB DVDs here in the States will finally be rectified. the color is crap and the framing too tight in many places.

I shouldn't have been held back from seeing monster movies as a kid...;) Back to Universal-land...