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Dracula
1931
This is the first screen version of Bram Stoker's famous tale based on the smash hit stage production. Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) arrives in London and immediately works to enrapture and transform into vampires young Lucy Weston (Frances Dade) and her friend Mina Seward (Helen Chandler). After he succeeds in turning Lucy, and .. Read more
| Starring | Bela Lugosi, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler |
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| Director | Tod Browning |
| Genres | Horror |
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Dracula
This is the first screen version of Bram Stoker's famous tale based on the smash hit stage production. Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) arrives in London and immediately works to enrapture and transform into vampires young Lucy Weston (Frances Dade) and her friend Mina Seward (Helen Chandler). After he succeeds in turning Lucy, and Mina's health suddenly deteriorates, Mina's father (Herbert Bunston), calls in a specialist, Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan). Van Helsing quickly recognizes Dracula's vampirism, and sets about saving Mina (and in the process, becomes Dracula's archenemy). The film, arguably the most influential of the legend's film versions, launched Lugosi's career in horror movies and forever invited vampires across Hollywood's threshold, spawning many sequels and variations. This release features Philip Glass' score, performed by the Kronos Quartet.
| Starring | Bela Lugosi, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan |
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| Director | Tod Browning |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 11 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1931 To Rent: DVD: 14 Oct 2002 |
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A film which has much to answer for. It started its star and its studio off on horror careers, and it launched innumerable sequels (see below). In itself, after two eerie reels, it becomes a pedantic and slow transcription of a stage adaptation, and its c
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The Grand Daddy of them All
This is the original dracula movie and perhaps the grand father of all horror movies.
It is simply a classic.
Bela legosi is 'Dracula... read more » - 13382
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Dated but still quite eerie
The first big screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel with Bela Lugosi Count Vladimir Dracula, Transylvania’s finest.
Obviously it has ... read more » - 1053587
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Bela Lugosi is not dead...
I liked this Dracula because it is probably one of the first spoken versions and Dracula sometimes looks like serious version of Leslie Nielsen, undead and ... read more »
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Dracula
I got this copy of Dracula and wondered would I like it at all, I love vampire films but was never one for the cheesey types, I also never liked Dracula as a ... read more »
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Vampires have always been immortal but why is it that they keep getting younger – and hotter? Think about it. The movie’s first notable bloodsucker was Max Schreck as Count Orlock in the German silent classic Nosferatu (1922). Coincidentally, Schreck is the German word for “terror”, but it was the actor’s real name. He was in his early 40s at the time, but the bald, bone-thin, rodent-like Orlock could easily have been in his 60s. I don’t think I’m... Read more
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This is the first screen version of Bram Stoker's famous tale based on the smash hit stage production. Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) arrives in London and immediately works to enrapture and transform into vampires young Lucy Weston (Frances Dade) and her friend Mina Seward (Helen Chandler). After he ...
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