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Gary Don Rhodes described the play as "taking America by storm", a statement backed up by a 1930 article in the Chicago Tribune claiming that the play "has been rolling around the country ever since its first vogue two or three seasons ago, coaxing money into box offices that had abandoned hope of the drama, and of the shriek-and-shudder plays ...
Edward Van Sloan and Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931) . Edward Van Sloan (born Edward Paul Van Sloun; November 1, 1882 – March 6, 1964) [1] was an American character actor best remembered for his roles in the Universal Studios horror films such as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), and The Mummy (1932).
Dracula 2000, under its promotional title Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000, builds upon Bram Stoker's original 1897 novel Dracula, with Count Dracula resurrected in contemporary America. The film was a critical and commercial failure, though two direct-to-video sequels, both written and directed by Lussier, were produced.
Dracula seduced his beautiful victims. The Mummy resurrected his dead lover, Nosferatu became eerily obsessed with a young women, and Frankenstein even had a bride.
In September 2013, Dracula received a standalone Blu-ray release that also includes the Spanish-language Dracula. [66] [67] That same year, Dracula was included as part of the six-film Blu-ray set Universal Classic Monsters Collection, which also includes Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Wolf Man. [68]
On his arrival in America, the 6-foot-1-inch (1.85 m), [16] 180-pound (82 kg) Lugosi worked for some time as a laborer, and then entered the theater in New York City's Hungarian immigrant colony. With fellow expatriate Hungarian actors he formed a small stock company that toured Eastern cities, playing for immigrant audiences.
Long before “True Blood” or “Twilight” brought vampires to small-town America, horror writer Stephen King imagined the creatures invading his backyard in rural Maine (technically, a ...
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by James V. Hart, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The film stars Gary Oldman , Winona Ryder , Anthony Hopkins , and Keanu Reeves , with Richard E. Grant , Cary Elwes , Billy Campbell , Sadie ...