Dracula

MOVIE #1,170 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 10.01.23 50 MOVIES IN 32 DAYS! Dracula, retitled as Horror of Dracula in the U.S. to avoid confusion with the original 1931 Universal Pictures version, is definitely a little better looking than The Curse of Frankenstein, but it’s shorter on plot, or at least the plot seemed overly convoluted. Christopher Lee gets a little more dialogue this time up around (a marked improvement from his ZERO lines in Frankenstein) but I was surprised how few scenes Count Dracula is actually in when it’s all said and done. This one is probably considered the best of the bunch by most, but it was my least favorite of the trio. Just needed more of this maniac…

A random note I found fascinating/funny was that it had its international premiere in Milwaukee of all places.

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Dracula is a 1958 British gothic horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same name. The first in the series of Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, the film also features Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, along with Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, and John Van Eyssen. It was released on May 7, 1958.