Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir #79: Dracula's daughter

Genre: Horror/Horreur

Annee/Year: 1936

Format: DVD

Dracula's daughter. This is also one of the old Universal monster classic. After the original Dracula and it's spanish version this is definitely one of the first of the vampire genre. The director Lambert Hillyer took on actors Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger and Marguarite Churchill which play very solid performances. Gloria plays a great countess role (Dracula's daughter) where she is very hypnotic and aristocratic but definitely not scary in the modern sense.
Entertaining but did not bring the genre forward by any means.

Ce film n'a pas de traduction sur DVD. Il demeure cependant l'un des classique du genre et un des premiers film de vampires. Gloria Holden joue un role magnifique qui est hypnotisant mais quand meme pas tres epeurant dans le sens moderne. Pas un film qui a avance le genre enormement.

Great quotes:
Countess Marya Zaleska: Sandor, look at me. What do you see in my eyes?
Sandor: Death.
...
Lady Esme Hammond: Sherry, Marya?
Countess Marya Zaleska: Thank you, I never drink... wine.
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Hawkins: [comes out of Dracula's castle] Some man is in there with a stake through his heart.
Albert: Scary.
Hawkins: [looks at Van Helsing] You know anything about this?
Prof. Von Helsing: Yes, I did it.
Hawkins: Who is he in there?
Prof. Von Helsing: His name's Count Dracula.
Hawkins: How long has he been dead?
Prof. Von Helsing: About 500 years.
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Countess Marya Zaleska: Be thou exorcised oh Dracula, and thy body long undead find destruction throughout eternity in the name of thy dark unholy Master. In the name of the oh holiest and through this cross be the evil spirit cast out until the end of time

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027545/

Rating perso: 6.5/10