Dracula Comments

  • Eldridge 2022-10-01 20:56:24

    At the time of the show, the newspaper reported that the audience was shocked and fainted, so it became a selling point. Within 48 hours, 50,000 tickets were sold in a theater in New York. The film is adapted from a Broadway stage play adapted from a novel, and a lot of inspiration comes from the Munummer film "Nosferatu" (1922). A storm at sea is taken from the universal silent film "The Storm Breaker" (1925), and the screen changes from 16 frames per second in silent films to 24 frames per...

  • Magnus 2022-09-24 01:22:15

    Why do some of you feel bored? I think it's very good-looking. I didn't even notice when I watched it. There is no soundtrack but only dialogue. In the old movie, the special effects are actually very good, and the acting skills of the actors are also very good. Dracula is really handsome. Ah, this temperament is simply compelling, I really...

  • Betty 2022-09-22 16:46:10

    When we look at Dracula again in this day and age, perhaps more attention will be paid to the stylized performances, photography, and sets. But in 1931, it was definitely "the most chilling, truly scary movie ever made", and in black and white light and shadow, Count Dracula's darker and spookier eyes in tiny speckles remain Cast a chilling...

  • Chaz 2022-09-17 12:44:17

    Much worse than the Murnau...

  • Napoleon 2022-07-30 23:42:40

    Watching while taking a nap, sleepy eyes in Gothenburg, waking up with tooth marks on the neck, I don’t know if it’s a dream or a...

  • Daphne 2022-07-30 22:06:51

    All subsequent vampire movies should be grateful for this one. Without it, the subsequent vampire image may remain in the ugly horror for decades... But having said that, the dracula image of this meeting is quite a stick.. completely. There is no inner drama...makes vampires a bit too simplistic...but the vampires in Stoke's novels are probably the...

  • Rosario 2022-07-30 17:23:01

    Lugosi had a powerful presence and authority onscreen. The slow, deliberate pacing of his performance gave Dracula the air of a walking, talking corpse. the many closeups of Lugosi's face in icy silence. shadow narration, the ending a bit hasty &...

  • Jacques 2022-07-30 16:22:12

    1. Not as good as Murnau and Herzog's [Nosferatu]. 2. Bella Lugosi created the charming and elegant image of Dracula, which complements the [Swan Lake] in the opening of the movie, and the earl’s staring way is very charming. 3. Expressionist scenery: the cobwebs in the castle, the dense fog everywhere, the miniature spotlight aimed at Lugosi's eyes. 4. Anti-climax ending: the earl’s groaning voice-over reveals his fate. 5. Mirror shadow that can't be reflected....

  • Constantin 2022-07-30 16:14:09

    In fact, this is very simple, I have seen the scene of hanging a bat on a rope...it should be digitally restored. But the old actors are still very...

Extended Reading

Dracula quotes

  • Lucy Weston: [doing an impression of Dracula] It reminds me of the broken battlements of my own castle in Transylvania.

    [chuckles]

    Mina Seward: Oh, Lucy, you're so romantic!

    Lucy Weston: Laugh all you like. I think he's fascinating.

    Mina Seward: Oh, I suppose he's all right. But give me someone a little more normal.

    Lucy Weston: Like John?

    Mina Seward: Yes, dear, like John.

    Lucy Weston: [dreamily] Castle... Dracula... Transylvania!

    Mina Seward: Well, Countess! I'll leave you to your count and his ruined abbey!

    [both giggle]

    Mina Seward: Good night, Lucy.

    Lucy Weston: Good night, dear.

  • Renfield: He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them.

    Van Helsing: Doing them?

    Renfield: By making them happen. A red mist spread over the lawn, coming on like a flame of fire! And then he parted it, and I could see that there were thousands of rats, with their eyes blazing red, like his, only smaller. Then he held up his hand, and they all stopped, and I thought he seemed to be saying: "Rats! Rats! Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red blood! All these will I give you! If you will obey me!"

    Van Helsing: What did he want you to do?

    Renfield: That which has already been done!

    [giggles sinisterly]