Running time: 75 min
Cert: PG
Director: Tod Browning
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners.
Our Curator, Kim Newman says: Tod Browning’s early talkie is an essential horror movie, spotlighting (literally, via tiny pinlights aimed at his evil eyes) Bela Lugosi’s star-making turn as the vampire Count, squeezing Hungarian menace out of every syllable of ‘cheeldren of the naight, leesten to thaim.’ It opens magnificently in a cobwebbed, vermin-haunted castle (an armadillo nestles in a Transylvanian crypt) with the appearance of three soulless vampire brides who descend on the unwary visitor. Once it gets to London, Edward Van Sloan is staunch as Van Helsing, the forgotten Helen Chandler frailly charming as Mina and Dwight Frye steals every scene that isn’t nailed down as the fly-eating Renfield.
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