Msfisherqueen1 agreed. No one will ever come close to being the count. Bela Lugosi WAS Count Dracula. I teach a film studies course in high school. I agree with you. I teach him as an exemplar of exemplar acting
@@sociopathsurvivor7129 yes he played a Count I think people overlook he was not just playing a vampire not all vampires would have that regal way and mannerisms it was because of who he was in life that his undead character was the way he was. Like imagine if the Count of Monte Crisco was undead.
Karen Hummel - a pathetic cry from a Being hundreds of years old....knowledge and power garnered through centuries snuffed-out by a weak human with a mallet and a piece of wood. Dracula never stays dead however....chaos always has a way of reasserting itself into the temporal order of humankind.
The « they’re all crazy » comic relief scene comes JUST BEFORE the battle of wills between Dracula and van Helsing. Perfect timing - just as we are laughing at the comic dialogue, the smile is frozen on our faces by the very serious confrontation.
when filmmakers produced greatness without cgi, dolby surround sound & needless explosions. no blood and gore no profanity no nude sex scenes just great acting,editing,set designes,and plot. most importantly no 2 1/2 to 3 hrs runtimes. Dracula was about 1hr 15minutes.Both Bela lugosi and Dwight Frye have been immortalized by their eerie mesmerizing performances. Modern day directors should take note.Simple & straightforward works best!
Sadly...Hollywood is not going to take note of this. Hollywood is too focus on purposely making shitty movies of remakes, shitty movies in general and now terrible go woke/sjw movies. Its no wonder why hollywood is now losing money and profits now at the box office.
what I also loved about the movie is the quietness of it, no background music , and for some reason the restored versions have not one but two different tracks of endless music .. early talkies had enough to deal with without adding this , besides the public would be looking around for the orchestra .. it was a very different world ..
RENFIELD: "I'm going to Castle Dracula. I'm the head of the Quick-E-Mart." INNKEEPER: "You're the head of the Quick-E-Mart?" RENFIELD: "Why, yes." INNKEEPER: "Really?" RENFIELD: "Y-yes?" INNKEEPER: "You??" RENFIELD: "Yes, yes. I am!" INNKEEPER: "NO!"
Dracula, greatest character of all time. My whole life feels like I've been living in a c-rated, cheap Dracula movie. When I was a very little kid I'd dress up like Dracula all the time and bite my brother and sisters on the neck. I'd hang upside down in my closet and sleep in my dresser drawers like a coffin.
Apparently the film makers wanted to make this movie into a full version of the Bram Stoker novel. The great depression prevented this having only a minimal budget.
The old woman crosses herself in the Roman Catholic way, not the Eastern Orthodox way most likely in Romania. Very few Eastern Orthodox in America and even fewer in Hollywood, so an understandable error. You could say Transylvania is heavily ethnic Hungarian and so she could be Roman Catholic, but about half of the Hungarians were Protestant (Reformed).
One of my favorite scene from the movie is between Renfield and the man from the village Where he Says says You’re going to castle in disbelief and HorrorAnd of course Renfield doesn’t listen because he is a modern enlighten Westerer So much smarter then These superstitious medieval Eastern Folks
This is still the best horror movie I ever saw in my life the only horror movies that follow are Nosfertu , King Kong , Beast from 20,000 Fathoms & Godzilla.
dracula is not in bran castel....................its in transvania in Borgo Pas area ..they talk in movie by details where, in the montains where was austrohyngary border limit, exact on montains in Bucovina hides
ASimoneau Awesome effects throughout the movie, especially for 1931. Check out the effects in "The Invisible Man " with the Great Claude Rains. The people behind those effects WERE TALENTED/GIFTED, PERIOD. There was NO CGI in the 30s and yet the special effects of 30s movies are mind blowing.
To believe in a loving God requires you to be a loving people. People today think love is weak and only violence and viciousness are signs of strength.
Well Bela gave a great performance as Jesus when he was in the theatre group in Hungary too he was just an actor and got typecast in America because of his accent. People thought he really was evil and Dracula he was so convincing in the role.
They shot a Spanish language version of this movie at the same time as the English version. They even used the same sets. Only the actors and actresses were different.
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Bela Lugosi - the ultimate and only Dracula. His acting is minimalistic, real art.
Msfisherqueen1 agreed. No one will ever come close to being the count. Bela Lugosi WAS Count Dracula. I teach a film studies course in high school. I agree with you. I teach him as an exemplar of exemplar acting
@@sociopathsurvivor7129 yes he played a Count I think people overlook he was not just playing a vampire not all vampires would have that regal way and mannerisms it was because of who he was in life that his undead character was the way he was. Like imagine if the Count of Monte Crisco was undead.
Yes he portrayed the classic suave Dracula we know and love. It makes him seem more human and alluring instead of a crazed bloodthirsty maniac.
Dracula played by Bela Lugosi,the Best Dracula!
Yes, but absolutely nothing like the white haired, bewhiskered character from the book.
I am convinced that if Bela Lugosi hadn't played Dracula we wouldn't be talking about this today almost 90 years later.
Anyone else bothered by Van Helsing driving a wooden stake through Dracula's chest? His cries! :(
@@karenhummel49 There's something disturbing about it...
Ron Richo you're right.
Karen Hummel - a pathetic cry from a Being hundreds of years old....knowledge and power garnered through centuries snuffed-out by a weak human with a mallet and a piece of wood. Dracula never stays dead however....chaos always has a way of reasserting itself into the temporal order of humankind.
Ron Richo credit also due to Dwight Frye for his brilliant portrayal of Renfield. “Rats! RATS!”
My favorite moments are the atmospheric ones, especially Renfield's walk through the great hall. Color film and CGI could never do it justice.
When Van Helsing takes a good stare at something, you know his calculations are running wild. This film is phenomenal
All the special effects of modern movies amount to nothing compared to Dracula's evil eyes or the slightest whispers of the mad Renfield.
That's funny you should be a comedian
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The « they’re all crazy » comic relief scene comes JUST BEFORE the battle of wills between Dracula and van Helsing. Perfect timing - just as we are laughing at the comic dialogue, the smile is frozen on our faces by the very serious confrontation.
when filmmakers produced greatness without cgi, dolby surround sound & needless explosions.
no blood and gore no profanity no nude sex scenes just great acting,editing,set designes,and plot.
most importantly no 2 1/2 to 3 hrs runtimes.
Dracula was about 1hr 15minutes.Both Bela lugosi and Dwight Frye have been immortalized by their eerie mesmerizing performances.
Modern day directors should take note.Simple & straightforward works best!
I'm glad you mentioned Dwight Frye. In my opinion, The Best Supporting Actor of 1931.
So I guess you never saw the Spanish version
Sadly...Hollywood is not going to take note of this. Hollywood is too focus on purposely making shitty movies of remakes, shitty movies in general and now terrible go woke/sjw movies. Its no wonder why hollywood is now losing money and profits now at the box office.
@@rickypayne9810 , yes many times with different actors ..
Yes, it is more suspenseful!
don't challenge Dracula to a staring contest
"Flies? Who wants to eat flies?!" "you do loony!" "Not when I can get nice fat spidersss" hahaha I love this!
I say Bela Lugosi has done a great job as Dracula & Dwight Frye did as well as Renfield in this movie classic!!!!
What makes this film so powerful is the filmmaker's understanding of the source material. All the early Universal horror films benefited from that.
what I also loved about the movie is the quietness of it, no background music , and for some reason the restored versions have not one but two different tracks of endless music .. early talkies had enough to deal with without adding this , besides the public would be looking around for the orchestra .. it was a very different world ..
I know my copy you can have the Phillip Glass score or not. I never put it on. I love the quiet creepy atmosphere.
RENFIELD: "I'm going to Castle Dracula. I'm the head of the Quick-E-Mart."
INNKEEPER: "You're the head of the Quick-E-Mart?"
RENFIELD: "Why, yes."
INNKEEPER: "Really?"
RENFIELD: "Y-yes?"
INNKEEPER: "You??"
RENFIELD: "Yes, yes. I am!"
INNKEEPER: "NO!"
Dracula, greatest character of all time. My whole life feels like I've been living in a c-rated, cheap Dracula movie. When I was a very little kid I'd dress up like Dracula all the time and bite my brother and sisters on the neck. I'd hang upside down in my closet and sleep in my dresser drawers like a coffin.
Best Dracula ever.
Apparently the film makers wanted to make this movie into a full version of the Bram Stoker novel. The great depression prevented this having only a minimal budget.
That final battle was a real doozy! 🦇
Now that stare look spooked me big time!
Ironically, Dwight Frye known as The Man With The 1000 Watt Stare
The old woman crosses herself in the Roman Catholic way, not the Eastern Orthodox way most likely in Romania. Very few Eastern Orthodox in America and even fewer in Hollywood, so an understandable error. You could say Transylvania is heavily ethnic Hungarian and so she could be Roman Catholic, but about half of the Hungarians were Protestant (Reformed).
Or eastern rite Catholic
Very few of them in Romania.
8:35
“Moore, woolfbain?
“Morde effective than woolfbaen, Count!”
“InDEe- *hisses*”
Bella Logosi is the best Dracula of all time! ♥ ️🧛
02:32 Give him an enema!
I love these movies so much and Dracula is my favorite. Can you imagine seeing this when it was released?
I love this movie
I LOVE the Eyes from DRACULa ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This movie will be remembered long after the Disney Star Wars sequel trilogy has been forgotten.
'Drac ain't no joke! lmao!
Bela Lugosi's greatest role was on Sesame Street. Thanks to him I learned to count to ten.
If I ever have a daughter, I will name her Mina, after my favorite final girl.
Amen but you also have to include Christopher Lee because they made Dracula what is today
The Hammer Dracula is quite dated now.
@@edmund184 and this one isn't?
One of my favorite scene from the movie is between Renfield and the man from the village Where he Says says You’re going to castle in disbelief and HorrorAnd of course Renfield doesn’t listen because he is a modern enlighten Westerer So much smarter then These superstitious medieval Eastern Folks
This was great!
In a hundred years of vampires, I still think
that Max Shreck's
was the the the best
I've yet seen.
LOVE THIS!
blackcougar1959 Wow. You're beautiful maam
Ti
@@701765 Aw. Thank you kind sir.
Just imagine how many hours Bella Lugosi spent looking in the mirror practicing that stare
Could he see himself, though? 😂
Bela Lugosi went into a trance when he played Dracula!
This is still the best horror movie I ever saw in my life the only horror movies that follow are Nosfertu , King Kong , Beast from 20,000 Fathoms & Godzilla.
Original 1931 Frankenstein as well
@@robertschaffer1598 Frankenstein is my all time favorite universal movie but he's not in the league as Dracula
Bela never needed them fangs. just a stare.
"I dislike mirrors."
Oh how I love this movie.
i wish this was the version with the Philip Glass score.
but the acting alone outshines the quiet atmosphere wonderfully
Still a Classic Horror movie.
00:45 is straight chilling to this day
I think David Hyde Pierce would play a fantastic Renfield.
00:07 Yes, Dracula..carriage...pass...castle..what part of this don't you understand?
I know it was the Great Depression, but it's sad they couldn't have hired English actors for Mina, Harker, and Lucy.
the ballad of dewight frey
for kids under 14 this was so scary and believable
dracula is not in bran castel....................its in transvania in Borgo Pas area ..they talk in movie by details where, in the montains where was austrohyngary border limit, exact on montains in Bucovina hides
Dracula is in da House 😁
Great Performances....feeling like reading Mary Shelley's Masterpiece book over again !!
Saswat Mohanty and wtf does reading Frankenstein have to do with this? Bram Stoker wrote Dracula 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Saswat Mohanty if you're referring to Dracula it was created by Bram Stoker. Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein".
Wrong movie!
Te equivocastes, lo escribió JK Rowling 🙄👌
Bela LUGOSI HE IS ORGONAL LOOK OF DRACULA. GOD HE WAS GOOD
How'd they get that bad to drive the stagecoach? Impressive!
ASimoneau
Awesome effects throughout the movie, especially for 1931.
Check out the effects in
"The Invisible Man " with the Great Claude Rains.
The people behind those effects WERE TALENTED/GIFTED, PERIOD.
There was NO CGI in the 30s and yet the special effects of 30s movies are mind blowing.
batmobiling
8:20 Back in the day when people believed that a loving God would overwhelm all Evil.
To believe in a loving God requires you to be a loving people. People today think love is weak and only violence and viciousness are signs of strength.
@@melanofilms6840 Well said
Well Bela gave a great performance as Jesus when he was in the theatre group in Hungary too he was just an actor and got typecast in America because of his accent. People thought he really was evil and Dracula he was so convincing in the role.
the ballad of d frye
yo si creo en los vampiros, soy uno de ellos.
I would give this a like -- except it currently has 665 likes.
It's up to 669 now, so I'm willing to be 670.
Why their all crazy!
Man he really bites!!!!!!
3:59😂😂😂
“I want to drink your blood”
😢correct
Jo padashje me fal
08:44
Dis Dracula def bad news though
Awesome !
The whole sequence from 7:27 on has me ☠️☠️😂😂😂😂😂...
I mean. They are great actors I guess, but this scene just feels weird and cheap? Lol.
@@gabybiz6089 I kept rewatching that and laughing my ass off every.single.time. hahahahaha
That score has got to go.
YESSSS
NOW!!!!!!!
I am convinced that if people only knew the power of the cross of Christ we would have a much better world.
The man who wrote dracula did not believe in God
not really because that power is called "terrorism" now
Exactly
You realize the irony of you posting that here.
0:36 It's star not stare
you are a fucking idiot
No podría serlo si la gente que presume ser justa no me haya clavado estacas en el corazón
They shot a Spanish language version of this movie at the same time as the English version. They even used the same sets. Only the actors and actresses were different.
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1:40 el antiguo cochero se canso y tuvo que contratar a uno nuevo
I like Mel Brooks version better .
Bill Huber you are in the minority my Friend. The original is a masterpiece.
So sad whoever posted this had to resort to the low form of profanity.
8:10 Van Helsing rolls a 20.
So I'm giving him a shave at my shop and noticed I couldn't see him in any mirror's
The stairway at the end violates OSHA standards. In the sequel Van Helsing brought a class action about it.
Forget CGI and wierd backstory clutter. Browning did it better and he ain't been bested yet