Search for Dracula

The golden era of Universal monster movies began in early 1931 with the release of Dracula, which, despite shaky acting and even shakier direction, is nevertheless regarded as one of the seminal early talkies - a movie that not only helped to keep ...

Having watched Luc Besson’s Dracula as a companion piece to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, I have reached a grim conclusion: it is time to let these two iconic monsters sleep forever. No matter how "unique" a director’s vision may be, or...

Of all the indignities to have been visited upon Dracula during the past century (including being the "inspiration" for a cereal and a Sesame Street character, and being lampooned by Mel Brooks), none is more unsettling than what has happened...

Dracula Untold purports to relate the origin of how the world's most famous vampire became the creature we all know and fear. Unfortunately, Gary Shore's film suffers from narrative issues and problems of execution. Some of these are likely beyond ...

When it comes to spoofs of horror films, one of the greatest of all time is surely Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, a movie that's as clever as it is funny. Now, more than two decades later, Brooks has attempted to re-create the magic by doing to B...

Vampire. It is perhaps one of the few words capable of raising the hackles on the necks of both grownups and children alike. Tales of the un-dead date back centuries, but the most famous vampire of all was not born until the late 1800s (1897, to ...

Like Shakespeare's Hamlet and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of those stories that is re-made on a fairly consistent basis. If you don't like the latest incarnation of the count, wait a few years and there will be anothe...