Universal first launched what would become known as its monster franchise with Count Dracula in 1931 with Dracula. The film’s two initial sequels – 1936’s Dracula’s Daughter and 1943’s Son of Dracula ...

Two months before the movie “Dracula” opened in 1931, Universal took out a Variety ad promoting it as “The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!” That spin reflected the fear of ...

One of the early talkies that came out in 1931 was the Spanish-language "Dracula." But just because it had sound didn't mean it had a score. After all, B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme music, wasn ...

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“Rats. Rats. Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red blood! All these will I give you if you will obey me!” Horror Film Historian David J. Skal will introduce a screening of DRACULA (1931) at ...

Although he’s been shot, impaled, burned, beheaded and otherwise killed off many times, the daylight-dreading Count Dracula remains alive and well, thanks to our morbid obsession with things that go ...

Dracula is an iconic character on film, and the 10 best rated films around the vampire include the Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dracula: Prince of Darkness and the 1931 film Dracula. (Getty Images/20th ...

Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his presence in the 1931 screen version of Bram Stokers Dracula. Director Tod Browning invests most of his mood and atmosphere in the first two reels, which were based on ...

The 1931 Spanish-language Drácula will get its first film score. It was among the early "talkies," when filmmakers hadn't quite yet figured out how to incorporate music into their craft. One of the ...