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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 succeeds in turning Lucy, and .. Read more

Starring	Bela Lugosi, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler
Director	Tod Browning
Genres	Horror

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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
- 32024
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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- - 11
  - 2
  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 »
  
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- 13382
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - London UK
  - 03 Aug 2004 at 08:52
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- - 0
  - 0
  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 »
  
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- 1053587
- - Bassman71
  - 459 reviews
  - Didsbury, England
  - 21 Oct 2011 at 09:21
- - 0
  - 0
  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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- 868203
- - juradino
  - 701 reviews
  - London
  - 03 Mar 2010 at 00:29
- - 0
  - 0
  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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- 665396
- - a customer
  - Belfast
  - 27 Nov 2008 at 17:32
- - 3
  - 2
  Just because it's the first Dracula does not make it great.
  
  Terrible acting.Old film.
  
  Watch Joan Fontaine/Audrey Hepburn.
  
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- 533877
- - Robert Dawson
  - Cardiff,Wales.
  - 02 Mar 2008 at 20:20
- - 0
  - 0
  About Dracula
  
  The movie is one of the really good classic movies altough you cant expect it to amuse u because of the oldness that it has, altough it is the best Dracula ... read more »
  
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- 525927
- - ashkanjj
  - 1 review
  - Poole
  - 13 Feb 2008 at 15:25
- - 9
  - 5
  Stagey nonsense
  
  After seeing Frankenstein for the first time (I had previously only seen Bride of Frankenstein) I decided to finally see the famous Lugosi version of Dracula; ... read more »
  
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- 393536
- - Paul Thompson
  - King's Lynn
  - 10 Dec 2006 at 19:46
- - 2
  - 0
  Classic Drac
  
  The Dracula, although judging by the accompanying film, there was an even better Spanish one made at the same time. Bela Lugosi is the bees knees as the famous... read more »
  
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- 381674
- - Cato
  - 589 reviews
  - Lydbury North
  - 06 Nov 2006 at 15:18
- - 1
  - 1
  The original and the best
  
  I chose to write about this for an essay I had to do so rented it out...
  
  So this film being enjoyable was a real bonus. This film set the tone for ... read more »
  
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- 239839
- - thundercat
  - 14 reviews
  - Manchester
  - 03 May 2006 at 11:37
- - 7
  - 1
  Give me Nosferatu over this any day
  
  The first appearance on screen of the Dracula character that everyone is familiar with these days. Some great sets couldn't hide the fact that it looked and... read more »
  
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- 232191
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - McClennan
  - 424 reviews
  - St Helens
  - 12 Apr 2006 at 19:23
- - 1
  - 0
  the best
  
  this is a fantastic movie. bela lugosi is amazing. the one and only dracula. you can chose if you want the musics on or off. the original movie had no musics so... read more »
  
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- 189488
- - robi
  - newport, uk
  - 03 Jan 2006 at 20:27
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- - 11
  - 2
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 13382
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - London UK
  - 03 Aug 2004 at 08:52
- - 9
  - 5
  Stagey nonsense
  
  After seeing Frankenstein for the first time (I had previously only seen Bride of Frankenstein) I decided to finally see the famous Lugosi version of Dracula; ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 393536
- - Paul Thompson
  - King's Lynn
  - 10 Dec 2006 at 19:46
- - 7
  - 1
  Give me Nosferatu over this any day
  
  The first appearance on screen of the Dracula character that everyone is familiar with these days. Some great sets couldn't hide the fact that it looked and... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 232191
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - McClennan
  - 424 reviews
  - St Helens
  - 12 Apr 2006 at 19:23
- - 5
  - 0
  Dracula begins here
  
  ..okay maybe not quite, as 'Nosferatu' is where Drac really starts in film lore, but in terms of who Dracula IS, then is must be Bela Lugosi, in this ... read more »
  
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- 147255
- - nina
  - London
  - 03 Sep 2005 at 18:39
- - 3
  - 2
  Just because it's the first Dracula does not make it great.
  
  Terrible acting.Old film.
  
  Watch Joan Fontaine/Audrey Hepburn.
  
  Report this review
- 533877
- - Robert Dawson
  - Cardiff,Wales.
  - 02 Mar 2008 at 20:20
- - 2
  - 0
  Classic Drac
  
  The Dracula, although judging by the accompanying film, there was an even better Spanish one made at the same time. Bela Lugosi is the bees knees as the famous... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 381674
- - Cato
  - 589 reviews
  - Lydbury North
  - 06 Nov 2006 at 15:18
- - 1
  - 0
  the best
  
  this is a fantastic movie. bela lugosi is amazing. the one and only dracula. you can chose if you want the musics on or off. the original movie had no musics so... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 189488
- - robi
  - newport, uk
  - 03 Jan 2006 at 20:27
- - 1
  - 1
  The original and the best
  
  I chose to write about this for an essay I had to do so rented it out...
  
  So this film being enjoyable was a real bonus. This film set the tone for ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 239839
- - thundercat
  - 14 reviews
  - Manchester
  - 03 May 2006 at 11:37
- - 0
  - 0
  About Dracula
  
  The movie is one of the really good classic movies altough you cant expect it to amuse u because of the oldness that it has, altough it is the best Dracula ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 525927
- - ashkanjj
  - 1 review
  - Poole
  - 13 Feb 2008 at 15:25
- - 0
  - 0
  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 665396
- - a customer
  - Belfast
  - 27 Nov 2008 at 17:32

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Critics' reviews
- 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
- 32024
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
- "...It is Lugosi's performance, and the cinematography of Karl Freund that make Tod Browning's film such an influential Hollywood picture..."
- 22102
- - Chicago Sun
  - 29 Jan 2006 at 16:09
- Not by any means the masterpiece of fond memory or reputation, although the first twenty minutes are astonishingly... read more on Time Out
- 45301
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15

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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 ...