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| Bela Lugosi | Count Dracula |
| Lon Chaney Jr. | Count Alucard |
| John Carradine | Count Dracula |
| Tod Browning | Director |
Anonymous
Posted October 1, 2010
Dracula is the name of my book he lives in the castle waiting for people to come in the castle.He has a man trapped in the castle right he uses him for bait to little kids.Little kids live beside his castle as he watches everyday he only comes out at dark so he doesnt get burnt that is one of the things that kill him and other things like garlic.If the garlic gets no him it will kill him he comes out when you least expect that is why he lives in a dark castle.He has three sisters they have took a baby away from the house for there light meal until the night comes.When the night comes you have to stay inside so that they will not eat you.If you do go outside take garlic with you when they eat you there always on the hunt for anything that moves.
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Posted October 1, 2010
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Dracula: The Legacy Collection is a group of vampire videos to curl up with on a stormy night. It includes the original Bela Lugosi "thriller, the spanish language version, and two other vampire flicks. If you are a Lugosi fan, it's great fun to watch him in the role that became his masterpiece. It's also fun to compare Lon Chaney Jr. and John Carradine to Lugosi, the master. Tod Browning's special effects were masterful for their day. The movies are campy by today's standards, but still entertaining.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.The Universal Legacy Series for its monster series is a gem. As someone who grew up on "Shock Theater" in the early to mid-Sixties, I grew to appreciate the black-and-white classics. Not scary or gory by today's standards, they continue to evoke an eerie landscape which feeds into the dark side of the American psyche. Depression-era filmgoers got solace in Disney, who urged them not to fear the big bad wolf. Others sought out the big bad werewolf, vampire, or golem. Bela Lugosi patented the vampire count. The film on DVD is so crisp you can see the original grain. The Spanish-language Dracula delivers also, with or without subtitles (and everyone in the American hemisphere ought to be able to understand SOME Spanish, no? Dracula's Daughter satisfies, even factoring in the subtext referred to in The Celluloid Closet. The Philip Glass soundtrack rejiggered for the original film, while appropriate, is too loud and too clever by half to recommend. I have yet to watch Son of Dracula and House of Dracula, but like most franchise extensions, will probably offer less punch than Dracula or its Spanish cousin. Still, this collection is worth having, if, for nothing else, the innovations which created the cliches.
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Posted October 1, 2010
This is by far a classic, that no horror movie collector can't go without. I have this on dvd, but not the legacy collection. I have it from the universal studios classic monster collection, which came with seven other dvd's, including Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Creature From the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, the Mummy, the Phantom of the Opera, and the Wolfman. They don't have this collection anymore, but the legacy collection, also comes with more movies in each dvd. So I highly reccommend this dvd.
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Posted October 1, 2010
¿Dracula' (1931) is the film version of that Transylvanian count (Bela Lugosi) who must suck the blood of innocents in order to survive. He sleeps by day, terrorizes by night and keeps a crew of virgin wives as his slaves in the darkened recesses of his haunted castle. Of course, it¿s up to Professor Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) to put an end to all the blood letting and bandages. The subsequent films in this collection are a mixed bag of B-pictures; the best probably being 'Dracula's Daughter' because of Gloria Holden¿s compelling performance as Countess Marya. At least she attempts to pick up where the original nightmare left off. The last two films (Son and House of) are truly laughable. But the real revelation in this collection is the Spanish version of the original film, Dracula. Produced simultaneously with the original film and on the same sets, it is an improvement on the Lugosi version in both its camera techniques and visual special effects. One pines for such originality elsewhere in this collection. The transfers are a mixed bag at best. No attempt has been made to clean up the age related artifacts that riddle the print of the 1931 original horror classic. It is so extensively marred by every conceivable anomaly (scratches, excessive film grain, tears in the original camera negative, fading) that it is a painful viewing experience. Contrast and black levels are so unbalanced that fine detail is not even an issue - (personally, I'd be happy to see any detail at all.) There¿s also a considerable amount of digital anomalies that only add to the frustration of watching film history being destroyed before your very eyes. The audio of the original film is muffled, often inaudible and suffers greatly from background hiss, pops and a strident characteristic. The subsequent films in this collection are spared such massive deterioration, presumably because they did not get as much play time over the years and as a result have been better preserved. As with the Frankenstein box set, extras here include two succinctly produced featurettes on the making of the film, as well as theatrical trailers and audio commentaries and a shameless promotion for ¿Van Helsing¿ the disastrous contemporary retelling of these characters, starring Hugh Jackman. I cannot in good faith recommend this box set, even to die hard 'Dracula' fans, because the original film - the only one in which Lugosi appears - has been rendered in such poor condition on DVD. A genuine disappointment!
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Posted October 1, 2010
If it wasn't for this movie and the origianl Nosferotu, vampires wouldn't have the fame that they have today. Transylvanians despised Bella for playing Dracula since he was Hungarian and the Hungarians were Vlad the Impalers enimies, but he proved them all wrong with his greatest performance ever.
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