Yo I know this is late but I have been watching your reviews for sometime and I have to say how much I enjoy them. I love how in depth you go into the films and have a lot fun to listen to them. Lots of great stuff 👍
I performed in a Moliere comedy in the 1970s. It was a small servant's role, but I spiced it up using Dwight Frye's laugh from Dracula! The audience loved it; the leading man I was onstage with...not so much. 😁
Your movie reviews are amazing! It's like I'm watching the movie while listening to you talk! Extremely enjoyable and really makes me want to watch the movies, just to experience them myself.
Yes! I like doing that too. Normally when I watch these, I do the whole thing in original release date order (which is basically how I'm doing it this time too)
I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of the Hammer version of Dracula. Wish we could get both that and Curse of Frankenstein on Blu ray sometime soon.
Great review. Love your Dracula impersonation. And when you were saying "come here", the eyes in your Halloween skulls also light up red at the same time in the back ground and it was pretty cool. Also, it was 1932 when they first started using incidental music in movies. So you were right in saying it didn't take very long before the studios and/or directors to realize that incidental music enhanced the movies. Once again, great review. Enjoyed watching it.
I also enjoy the battle of wills" scene between Dracula and Van Helsing. I especially enjoy Lugosi's reading of his lines; "Come here! Come......hur..."
Yes, I definitely had a wealth of movie to choose from! I pared it down to the majority of the most well known film adaptations, it's been interesting seeing how they all compare with the book and each other.
@@zaranyzerak Cool! I used to own the Picto Novel, which I read so often the corners were permanently curled from page turning and started falling out from wearing out the binding! I held out on buying videos in any format because unlike television broadcasts in the early 80s, they edited out the song, "I Love The Nightlife" from the cool Disco scene! What th'?!? I've heard it's finally been restored so I'm on board!
This series has been really interesting, hope I find time to watch them all. Apologies if you answer these questions, did you watch the version with the Philip Glass score and the Spanish language version? I prefer both to the original version.
In my personal opinion, the Philip Glass score isn't all that great. It's way overused. In some areas, it works great, but in other areas it's just distracting and it gets in the way. It's definitely worth watching though.
I thought about this a little and came to the conclusion the simple reason I preferred the Glass score to no score was simply that it perhaps made the film more "modern" and easier to watch. I need to watch both versions again some time soon. However whenever I get the blu-ray out I always find myself heading for the Spanish version instead.
Similarly in the Marx Brothers movie _The Coconuts_ the studio thought that audiences wouldn't believe the songs unless there was an orchestra on set to justify it. So they hired an orchestra to sit on set though the movie, but then the director forgot to include them in the shots -- or defied the studio's insistence that they be there.
It's sad that we Did not get His Origin Story, In Dracula's Daughter Originally There was Supposed to be a Flashback to the Middle Ages and we would of Seen Bella Lugosi as a Count of the Castle he Would of Been with Friends partying. Boris Karloff Would of Been a Demon Who Got into the Castle he would of Turned The Counts Friends into Pigs before Cursing the Count and Turning him Into Dracula, I Would of Loved to see this Backstory Sadly The Sensors at the Time Would not Allow it to be Filmed.
I know some die hard horror fans may find the idea crazy but IMHO the Universal Lugosi/Browning Dracula is not all that good, it certainly is not a very good version of the actual story in Stoker's book. Of course I am not denying it's status as a classic or it's place in history but in terms of telling a compelling story it falls somewhat flat suffering quite a bit from the limitations imposed on this kind of material in it's day no doubt but also for the way it follows the stage play rather than the book setting a trend that would be unfortunately followed in many of the subsequent film versions of almost completely omitting what is in my opinion the most compelling elements of the story. Harker's journey to the castle and lengthy stay where he slowly comes to realize his horrific situation is essential to the story perfectly setting up everything that follows. Skimping over this part of the story basically guts the whole thing which is why most movie Draculas suck more than just blood, LOL!
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Citation please on the warning you speak of. I only know about the epilogue, kind of _ex post facto_ warning. Similar to the one in the play that was being adapted, spoken out of character by the actor playing van Helsing after the curtain call. Are you sure that's not what you're talking about?
It was actually an epilogue, and apparently only appeared on the original release of the film. But similar to how Edward Van Sloan breaks the 4th wall and talks to the audience at the start of Frankenstein, they had something similar as an epilogue for Dracula. From the 1936 releases onward, it was removed and is apparently lost/unusable. Thankfully the Frankenstein one survives and still remains a part of the film. From the imdb trivia page about the film: The original release featured an epilogue with Edward Van Sloan talking to the audience about what they have just seen. This was removed for the 1936 re-release and is now assumed to be lost. The later Frankenstein (1931) similarly copied this model by featuring a prologue. From the wikipedia page: The most significant deletion was an epilogue which played only during the film's initial run. In a scene similar to the prologue from Frankenstein, and also featuring Universal stalwart Edward Van Sloan, he reappeared in a "curtain speech" and informed the audience: "Just a moment, ladies and gentlemen! A word before you go. We hope the memories of Dracula and Renfield won't give you bad dreams, so just a word of reassurance. When you get home tonight and the lights have been turned out and you are afraid to look behind the curtains - and you dread to see a face appear at the window - why, just pull yourself together and remember that after all, there are such things as vampires!" This epilogue was removed out of fear of encouraging a belief in the supernatural. This scene was briefly shown in the "Road to Dracula" documentary, but it may be unusable and can't be restored. It is discussed and shown briefly in the 1999 documentary "The Road to Dracula" . The removal of that scene was one of the two known instances of censorship for re-releases, the other of course being Dracula's death moan and Renfield's screams as he is killed, both of which have bene restored. The epilogue has never been restored, no idea why since the clip apparently exists in some form (it was shown in the Road to Dracula documentary).
Here is all we've seen of the clip, from The Road to Dracula documentary: th-cam.com/video/EXv4Lu0xe5s/w-d-xo.html I'm guessing the full cip is either incomplete or in such bad condition that's why it has never been restored to the film.
@@zaranyzerak Yeah that's the one I was talking about, an EPILOGUE rather than a warning at the top of the film like in _Frankenstein._ 21:27 "There was also *an intro* if you've seen _Frankenstein_ you may recall there's a lovely little intro with Edward van Sloane kind of warning the audience that this might be a little too scary for them so if you're gonna leave you might want to leave now apparently a similar warning was filmed for _Dracula._ " [Emphasis mine] Intros, generally speaking, aren't at the end of a work. That's why I was asking for a citation regarding the introductory warning of which you spoke.
Yes, the "intro" I was referring to was the one from Frankenstein. All I said regarding the one for Dracula was that there was a "similar warning filmed for Dracula" I didn't specify if it was an intro or epilogue for this one. I may have slightly mis-remembered that piece of trivia as being an intro rather than an epilogue. I'm human. It happens. The point is, the clip exists/existed and used to be a part of the film. That was the only reason I mentioned it, as an interesting tidbit.
Ha! What's with the Indian / Scottish accent at the start? ;) Great review of a great film. What did you think of the Spanish version, filmed I believe in the night shift using same sets but different crew / actors. Some consider it a superior version.
Yo I know this is late but I have been watching your reviews for sometime and I have to say how much I enjoy them. I love how in depth you go into the films and have a lot fun to listen to them. Lots of great stuff 👍
I performed in a Moliere comedy in the 1970s. It was a small servant's role, but I spiced it up using Dwight Frye's laugh from Dracula!
The audience loved it; the leading man I was onstage with...not so much. 😁
Your movie reviews are amazing! It's like I'm watching the movie while listening to you talk! Extremely enjoyable and really makes me want to watch the movies, just to experience them myself.
Great review. I like how you clarified the reason(s) for the absence of music in the film. It was a great performance by Lugosi.
I like watching this film back to back with Universal's Frankenstein like one of those old double features.
Yes! I like doing that too. Normally when I watch these, I do the whole thing in original release date order (which is basically how I'm doing it this time too)
I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of the Hammer version of Dracula. Wish we could get both that and Curse of Frankenstein on Blu ray sometime soon.
Not actually doing Hammer this year. There's so many I'm going to save that for a Halloween all its own.
Doing that Halloween!
Same here, DANIELDUDE1000!
Great review. Love your Dracula impersonation. And when you were saying "come here", the eyes in your Halloween skulls also light up red at the same time in the back ground and it was pretty cool. Also, it was 1932 when they first started using incidental music in movies. So you were right in saying it didn't take very long before the studios and/or directors to realize that incidental music enhanced the movies. Once again, great review. Enjoyed watching it.
This movie is gonna be 100 years old in 11 years, holy crap
How old will you be then?
I also enjoy the battle of wills" scene between Dracula and Van Helsing.
I especially enjoy Lugosi's reading of his lines;
"Come here! Come......hur..."
"I prefer to stand, Count!"
"Come...here!!"
Those sets must have been very sturdy and well constructed!
Pour lean in my lemonade and lean in my sprite.
Bitch I'm getting high as fuck for the rest of my life
Going through all the major adaptations of one monster, great idea. I believe I have heard Dracula is the most adapted character on film.
Yes, I definitely had a wealth of movie to choose from! I pared it down to the majority of the most well known film adaptations, it's been interesting seeing how they all compare with the book and each other.
I highly recommend the Dracula comedy, LOVE AT FIRST BITE from 1979!
I have it on Blu-ray! 😎 Interesting casting having Dracula played by an actor famous for his tanning salons, and sporting quite the tan himself!
@@zaranyzerak Cool! I used to own the Picto Novel, which I read so often the corners were permanently curled from page turning and started falling out from wearing out the binding! I held out on buying videos in any format because unlike television broadcasts in the early 80s, they edited out the song, "I Love The Nightlife" from the cool Disco scene! What th'?!? I've heard it's finally been restored so I'm on board!
This series has been really interesting, hope I find time to watch them all. Apologies if you answer these questions, did you watch the version with the Philip Glass score and the Spanish language version? I prefer both to the original version.
I didn't watch the Philip Glass score version, but I did watch the Spanish version. It's the next one in line. :)
In my personal opinion, the Philip Glass score isn't all that great. It's way overused. In some areas, it works great, but in other areas it's just distracting and it gets in the way. It's definitely worth watching though.
I thought about this a little and came to the conclusion the simple reason I preferred the Glass score to no score was simply that it perhaps made the film more "modern" and easier to watch. I need to watch both versions again some time soon. However whenever I get the blu-ray out I always find myself heading for the Spanish version instead.
Similarly in the Marx Brothers movie _The Coconuts_ the studio thought that audiences wouldn't believe the songs unless there was an orchestra on set to justify it. So they hired an orchestra to sit on set though the movie, but then the director forgot to include them in the shots -- or defied the studio's insistence that they be there.
Pretty Good Reinfield Laugh. Dwight Frye would've been Proud.
Thanks! I always thought he should have been a much bigger star, it's a shame he didn't get larger roles.
@@zaranyzerak Well, as with Colin Clive, He Die Quite Young. I think that He had A Heart Attack on Public Transportation
It's sad that we Did not get His Origin Story, In Dracula's Daughter Originally There was Supposed to be a Flashback to the Middle Ages and we would of Seen Bella Lugosi as a Count of the Castle he Would of Been with Friends partying. Boris Karloff Would of Been a Demon Who Got into the Castle he would of Turned The Counts Friends into Pigs before Cursing the Count and Turning him Into Dracula, I Would of Loved to see this Backstory Sadly The Sensors at the Time Would not Allow it to be Filmed.
Thanks for this.. Well done
Commenting before watching: I've been looking forward to this one!!!
Please review Son of Dracula (1943)
Definitely on the to-do list, along with all the rest of the Universal Monsters movies. :)
I know some die hard horror fans may find the idea crazy but IMHO the Universal Lugosi/Browning Dracula is not all that good, it certainly is not a very good version of the actual story in Stoker's book. Of course I am not denying it's status as a classic or it's place in history but in terms of telling a compelling story it falls somewhat flat suffering quite a bit from the limitations imposed on this kind of material in it's day no doubt but also for the way it follows the stage play rather than the book setting a trend that would be unfortunately followed in many of the subsequent film versions of almost completely omitting what is in my opinion the most compelling elements of the story. Harker's journey to the castle and lengthy stay where he slowly comes to realize his horrific situation is essential to the story perfectly setting up everything that follows. Skimping over this part of the story basically guts the whole thing which is why most movie Draculas suck more than just blood, LOL!
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Citation please on the warning you speak of.
I only know about the epilogue, kind of _ex post facto_ warning. Similar to the one in the play that was being adapted, spoken out of character by the actor playing van Helsing after the curtain call. Are you sure that's not what you're talking about?
It was actually an epilogue, and apparently only appeared on the original release of the film. But similar to how Edward Van Sloan breaks the 4th wall and talks to the audience at the start of Frankenstein, they had something similar as an epilogue for Dracula. From the 1936 releases onward, it was removed and is apparently lost/unusable. Thankfully the Frankenstein one survives and still remains a part of the film.
From the imdb trivia page about the film: The original release featured an epilogue with Edward Van Sloan talking to the audience about what they have just seen. This was removed for the 1936 re-release and is now assumed to be lost. The later Frankenstein (1931) similarly copied this model by featuring a prologue.
From the wikipedia page: The most significant deletion was an epilogue which played only during the film's initial run. In a scene similar to the prologue from Frankenstein, and also featuring Universal stalwart Edward Van Sloan, he reappeared in a "curtain speech" and informed the audience: "Just a moment, ladies and gentlemen! A word before you go. We hope the memories of Dracula and Renfield won't give you bad dreams, so just a word of reassurance. When you get home tonight and the lights have been turned out and you are afraid to look behind the curtains - and you dread to see a face appear at the window - why, just pull yourself together and remember that after all, there are such things as vampires!" This epilogue was removed out of fear of encouraging a belief in the supernatural. This scene was briefly shown in the "Road to Dracula" documentary, but it may be unusable and can't be restored.
It is discussed and shown briefly in the 1999 documentary "The Road to Dracula" . The removal of that scene was one of the two known instances of censorship for re-releases, the other of course being Dracula's death moan and Renfield's screams as he is killed, both of which have bene restored. The epilogue has never been restored, no idea why since the clip apparently exists in some form (it was shown in the Road to Dracula documentary).
Here is all we've seen of the clip, from The Road to Dracula documentary: th-cam.com/video/EXv4Lu0xe5s/w-d-xo.html I'm guessing the full cip is either incomplete or in such bad condition that's why it has never been restored to the film.
@@zaranyzerak Yeah that's the one I was talking about, an EPILOGUE rather than a warning at the top of the film like in _Frankenstein._
21:27 "There was also *an intro* if you've seen _Frankenstein_ you may recall there's a lovely little intro with Edward van Sloane kind of warning the audience that this might be a little too scary for them so if you're gonna leave you might want to leave now apparently a similar warning was filmed for _Dracula._ " [Emphasis mine]
Intros, generally speaking, aren't at the end of a work. That's why I was asking for a citation regarding the introductory warning of which you spoke.
Yes, the "intro" I was referring to was the one from Frankenstein. All I said regarding the one for Dracula was that there was a "similar warning filmed for Dracula" I didn't specify if it was an intro or epilogue for this one. I may have slightly mis-remembered that piece of trivia as being an intro rather than an epilogue. I'm human. It happens. The point is, the clip exists/existed and used to be a part of the film. That was the only reason I mentioned it, as an interesting tidbit.
Ha! What's with the Indian / Scottish accent at the start? ;) Great review of a great film. What did you think of the Spanish version, filmed I believe in the night shift using same sets but different crew / actors. Some consider it a superior version.
There is a distinct possibility I may be talking about the Spanish version in the next review... ;)
Thanks - looking forward to it. Of course I should have second guessed that!
White people not of direct Germanic origin often have difficulty with the Hungarian accent.
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