One of the best horror movies of the 1930's. This was about as sexual as a movie could be in that era. And who could forget Renfields' crazed laugh coming up from the hold of the ship that brought Dracula to America. There was another good Dracula series carried by PBS, it was sort of a mini-series that was supposed to be very true to the orininal story. I think Louis Jourdan (not the singer) starred as the count. It was very well done as I recall.

We watched it as a family last weekend and enjoyed it thoroughly. I've seen many many Draculas. Frank Langella and Gary Oldman give it the old college try. But Bela Lugosi IS Dracula. He just seems so damn out-of-this wordly. Watch Ed Wood and it simply proves Lugosi was as much out of his element in Hollywood as Vlad the Impaler would have been had he time-traveled to the 20th century. Legend has it, Lugosi was buried wearing his cape. While newer versions of the movie may be a bit more gruesome, the original stands as the best.

No matter who they get to play Dracula,Bela Lugosi owns the franchise.And he knows it.

Lugosi will forever be Dracula in millions of people's minds, and this is an excellent film. Honestly, though, I prefer the Gary Oldman-Wynona Ryder version of the early 90's over this one.

It's not so much the plot as it is the mood and the atmosphere. This will always be Dracula for me, no matter how many other versions are made. Not only is it Lugosi's greatest performance, but Dwight Frye is wonderfully bizzare!

Bela Lugosi’s performance in this film will always, in my mind, represent the consummate rendition of Dracula. He wasn’t good looking by any stretch of my imagination, but he emanated old world sophistication and a kind of reptilian combination of repulsion/compulsion. And those hypnotic eyes! I once heard that he couldn’t speak English at the time he was cast in the film and memorized and recited his lines phonetically. That may or may not be true, but he did easily and correctly give you the sense of someone attempting to fit into a culture and time in which he felt very foreign and removed. Others in the vampire genre have certainly been interesting, but this remains for me the classic version of a timeless horror story.

Perhaps the most influential horror movie of all time. DRACULA was the film that established Universal Studios as the power-house it is today. And what can be said of Lugosi? As far as our collective memory as human beings is concerned, he IS Dracula! Definately a classic.

This movie has been re-made so many times that it is easy to make comparisons, although this one probably is the best. Frank Langella's Dracula was also excellent. This 1931 film was one of the first horror movies I saw as a kid, and for nights afterwards, I could see the shadow of the vampire through the curtains, bidding me to come open the window.....ha, ha, he's never got the best of me....yet

These movies always scared the hell out of me as a kid. I used to hide under the covers everytime the Vampire appeared.