While not the brood fest as it could have been Bela Lugosi DOES pull off quite an acting feast here, as he hams it up in a rather curiously staged movie. I was wondering throughout whether the film was rewritten and rewritten as there are curious gaps (What WAS Renfield going to do with the fainted maid?) and curious pans when Dracula was getting out of the coffin that had me wondering. Of course, the fact that I watched the superior (but not by much I'm afraid) Spanish version right afterwards doesn't help I'm afraid because it makes the gaps in the film even wider. All in all, this was not bad, but certainly not great either.
Review of Dracula
