Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir #58. Dracula

Genre: Horror/Horreur

Annee/Year: 1931

Format: DVD

Dracula. This movie is another universal classic from the thirties. The black and white transfer is Ok for DVD. The alternative soundtrack from Philip Glass is quite appreciated as the original score is painful especially for it's poor technical quality and score choice. Tod Browning the director of over 60 movies in that period made Dracula as a crown of his achievement. Bela Lugosi plays the count in all his glory with a beautiful eastern country accent suiting the role so well. Bram Stoker's classic book is well represented by this old film but i really prefer the 1992 version of F.F.Coppola.

Ce film d'horreur est un des plus grand classique du genre. Universal a une fois de plus laisse le directeur Tod Browning cree une piece maitresse a son oeuvre de plus de 60 films. Bela Lugosi a jeter ici les fondations du mythe le plus celebre de Holywood. Faut voir au moins une fois meme si je prefere le Dracula de Coppola de 1992.

Great quotes:

Count Dracula: I am Dracula.
Renfield: Oh, it's really good to see you. I don't know what happened to the driver and my luggage and... Well, and with all this, I thought I was in the wrong place.
Count Dracula: I bid you welcome. [Dracula goes up the stairs. Renfield starts to follow him. Suddenly, Dracula hears wolves howling]
Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make. [Dracula goes up the steps and waits for Renfield, who, without difficulty, cuts open a hole in a huge spider's web using his walking stick]
Count Dracula: The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
Renfield: Why, er... yes.

Count Dracula: To die, to be *really* dead, that must be glorious!
Mina Seward: Why, Count Dracula!
Count Dracula: There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Mina Seward: [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.

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021814/

Rating perso: 8.0/10