Again I say, Universal did not know how to make a great Dracula movie.
It's up for speculation as to if Lon Chaney Jr is playing the original Dracula or his son, and it really doesn't matter. What matters is.....ok, yeah he's very miscast. He was a great actor, but a Transylvanian Count, he was not. The film itself is rather hokey, yet manages to give some clever ideas. Dracula coming to America because he's drained his homeland dry is very dark. Sure, it's why he went to England before, but they never came out and said that. Dracula using his name backwards as an alias. Ok, yeah, it's stupid, but I love it. I love anytime a Dracula movie uses Alucard. Kay actually willingly becoming a vampire so she can obtain eternal life is yet another good idea. And to the film's credit, this was the first time we saw Dracula show a savage brute side, which wouldn't be done again until Christopher Lee put on the cape. But, despite those good qualities, the film suffers from a slow pace(typical of Universal Dracula movies), and heavily padded bits that could have been trimmed for other stuff(all the numerous investigations, the jail scene, scenes at Brewster's home). Not to mention, the film has no real ending. It just kinda stops. No closure.
The rest of the cast is pretty meh. Louise Allbritton is good, but she's really the only memorable one in the film. Evelyn Ankers is on hand, but I've no idea why. They certainly don't give her anything to do despite her having talent and being a popular scream queen. She's just......there
Yeah, this is pretty much for film buffs only. This one is very meh
-- Wes Wall.
It's up for speculation as to if Lon Chaney Jr is playing the original Dracula or his son, and it really doesn't matter. What matters is.....ok, yeah he's very miscast. He was a great actor, but a Transylvanian Count, he was not. The film itself is rather hokey, yet manages to give some clever ideas. Dracula coming to America because he's drained his homeland dry is very dark. Sure, it's why he went to England before, but they never came out and said that. Dracula using his name backwards as an alias. Ok, yeah, it's stupid, but I love it. I love anytime a Dracula movie uses Alucard. Kay actually willingly becoming a vampire so she can obtain eternal life is yet another good idea. And to the film's credit, this was the first time we saw Dracula show a savage brute side, which wouldn't be done again until Christopher Lee put on the cape. But, despite those good qualities, the film suffers from a slow pace(typical of Universal Dracula movies), and heavily padded bits that could have been trimmed for other stuff(all the numerous investigations, the jail scene, scenes at Brewster's home). Not to mention, the film has no real ending. It just kinda stops. No closure.
The rest of the cast is pretty meh. Louise Allbritton is good, but she's really the only memorable one in the film. Evelyn Ankers is on hand, but I've no idea why. They certainly don't give her anything to do despite her having talent and being a popular scream queen. She's just......there
Yeah, this is pretty much for film buffs only. This one is very meh
-- Wes Wall.
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