Dracula

Pros: Entertaining movie with creepy atmosphere.
Cons: Some lighting issues at times. Some acting could have been better.

I can't remember when I first saw a movie about a vampire. I have been enjoying them for years. I have seen a few different movies that have dealt with Dracula in some way. I had heard some about the original movie version of Dracula< i>< b>, ...

Pros: Bela Lugosi, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Direction, Photography
Cons: Too many imitators

Dracula (1931) Almost everybody likes a good horror movie once in a while, and to learn what makes good horror cinema it is good to go back every so often and watch the original. I had watched Bram Stoker’s Dracula several times since ...

Pros: Lugosi, set design, lighting, creepy
Cons: Boring

Count Dracula, master vampire, with the help of his colleague, hypnotized Renfield, travel to London to move into a place right next to the sanitarium operated by a Dr. Seward (whom he meets at a play). From there, Dracula proceeds to try and seduce any ...

Pros: Cinematography; style. Iconic Images, and memorable lines.  Scary with shadows and suggestion.
Cons: The soundtrack to the 75th anniversary release was not cleaned up. 

Dracula (1931) Directed by Todd Browning From the Masterpiece by Bram Stoker."Listen to them!  Children of the Night.  What music they make."  Dracula.If we can see so far, it is because we stand on the ...

Pros: Lugosi,sets,atmosphere,watchability
Cons: Plot issues,off-screen happenings

Possibly the most famous horror movie ever, Tod Browning's 1931 version of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi in the title role, opened up doors for it's studio, Universal, and lead to the creation of the famous monsters the studio created, as well as ...

Pros: Lugosi, Frey, lighting, sets
Cons: Some special effects are seriously dated, some poor performances, sound problems in some scenes

NOTE: This is a review of the original print from the "Universal Monsters Classic Collection" that was released on VHS years ago. "Renfield" (Dwight Frey) has traveled from London to Transylvania on business at "Castle Dracula," a run-down castle ...

Pros: Film of great historical significance; Lugosi's performance is iconic. Spanish version contains corrections.
Cons: "75th Anniversary Edition" transfer absurdly bright and grainy; terrible sound. Severe continuous image modifications.

DRACULA (1931), while perhaps seeming tame to modern audiences, launched the modern horror film as we know it. It was the first time in an American production that the supernatural really did exist, rather than being explained away at some point. The ...

Pros: Wonderfully moody atmosphere, at least in the first 20 minutes, and Lugosi's defining performance
Cons: Lumbering drawing-room exposition and gradually diminishing visual interest

Universal’s first great sound horror film, 1931’s Dracula, directed by Tod Browning, and starring Bela Lugosi, is also its most contested classic, with constituents either praising or lamenting its vast decrepitude. In its favor, it breathes with ...

Pros: Good start, Lugosi and Van Sloane
Cons: Draggy main sequence, some awful acting.

In 1931, Todd Browning brought the first official adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire tale to the screen (let us not forget that Murnau's highly praised Nosferatu was an act of plagerism). It's really an adaptation of an adaptation, since the...

Pros: direction, Lugosi, sets, story
Cons: stereotyped supporting characters, new score

Surprisingly, Dracula has never really been a favorite among critics. Like Frankenstein, the other Universal horror blockbuster from the same year, it wasn't nominated for any Academy Awards.

In the decades that followed, the...

Pros: the new Philip Glass score, Bela Lugosi
Cons: hokey dialogue

Often imitated but never duplicated, Bela Lugosi’s performance in the 1931 "Dracula" is a justifiable legend. The image of Lugosi’s face is synonymous with the vampire of popular culture. Imagine if F.W. Murnau’s "Nosferatu," made...

Pros: Excellent extra features on this DVD. The Spanish version.
Cons: Somewhat difficult to navigate.

This is the movie that introduced Dracula the vampire to movie audiences in the US. Bela Lugosi would play the role for the rest of his life. And the original restored version with the 'Swan Lake' music track is still amazing.

Of course it...

Pros: Lugosi, Browning, but most of all Frye as the utterly creepy Renfield
Cons: none, really

Bram Stoker's classic novel, Dracula has inspired more films than any other book ever written. The first was F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, but the definitive version is Tod Browning's 1931 Dracula

It stars Bela Lugosi, Helen...

Pros: Classic of the horror genre, Lugosi, Frye, gothic as hell
Cons: Creaky, drags in spots, dated.

An evil thing happened to movies about twenty years ago with the advent of videotape releases of classic black and white films. Some genius (Ted Turner I believe) decided to add color though the magic of "colorization" to several movies...

Pros: Lugosi & Castle Dracula
Cons: Atmosphere suffers once in England; ending a little hokey

One need only see the Count rise from his coffin at Castle Dracula to see what makes the 1931 version the most memorable of them all--Lugosi himself. The hypnotic stoicism and personification of pure evil exudes from the actor and when this is...