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DRACULA

1931 US HMDB
February 12, 1931

British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together and Dracula, a secret vampire, begins preying on London socialites.

Directors

Karl Freund

Cast

Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Herbert Bunston, Frances Dade, Joan Standing, Charles K. Gerrard, Anna Bakacs
Fantasy Horror Romance

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

Count Dracula terrorizes Transylvania with his terrible power, a group of tourist-researchers will be eliminated by the immortal vampire. It takes the intervention of the vampire hunter Van Helsing to get rid of the count. The most famous adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, the first recognized by the writer's heirs (Murnau's "Nosferatu" was apocryphal). The director, Tod Browning, who the following year will direct the splendid and transgressive "Freaks", crafts a horror with discreet charm and stylistically suggestive. Dracula has the face of Bela Lugosi, the actor who, thanks to his countless and masterful performances as the Vampire Count, has remained in the history of horror cinema, linking his career to the character, to the point of being buried with the costume!