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, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye |
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| Director | Tod Browning |
| Genres | Horror |
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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
The recession has yet to hit the Hollywood memorabilia market - Harrison Ford's blaster gun from Blade Runner and an original Frankenstein movie poster have just sold at auction for more than £133,300 each. Ford's Rick Deckard sci-fi weapon, the only firing gun used in the cult film, went under the hammer for a whopping £180,000, while the 1931 poster stunned Profiles In History auction house bosses when it fetched £144,000. Other highlights of the spring memorabilia sale, which Read more