Fresh
A sublimated ghost story related with all surface seriousness and above all with a remarkably effective background of creepy atmosphere.
Variety Staff, Variety
Dracula
The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!
1931 · 1h 14m · Passed
Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Directed by
Tod Browning
Overview
A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The opening scenes, set in Dracula's castle, are magnificent -- grave, stately, and severe. But the film becomes unbearably static once the action moves to England.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Not by any means the masterpiece of fond memory or reputation, although the first twenty minutes are astonishingly fluid and brilliantly shot by Karl Freund.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
With Mr. Browning's imaginative direction and Mr. Lugosi's makeup and weird gestures, this picture succeeds to some extent in its grand guignol intentions.
Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
Fresh
Dracula deserves its status as a classic, although one might be tempted to append the word 'lesser' to that label.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Horror · Romance · R
Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula travels to Victorian London, where he becomes obsessed with Mina Murray—the fiancée of his solicitor, Jonathan Harker—believing her to be the reincarnation of his long-lost love.
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Cast
- Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
IMDb
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes
69%
Metacritic
57
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