"No, no, master. I wasn't going to say anything, I told them nothing. I am loyal to you master !"
Added 2/25/2010
This DVD is defective. I've tried, lord knows how I've tried ! I've placed it in the tray, again and again, but it freezes, the picture turns black, and now....now I've cut myself on the edge of the damnable thing ! Unbelieveable ! I am compelled, yet again, against my will, to send this cursed circular demon back to whence it came, but how can I ? How can I ? A drop of blood from my cut finger has dripped upon it's dark surface and how can I believe that Amazon will accept it's return with my bloodstains upon it? Perhaps if I could wipe it off with my sleeve, but....now a strange mist is spiraling up from the red spattered disc ! Is it on fire ? They'll never take it back if it......what...what's this ? I rub my eyes in disbelief, but, I still see it ! I still see it ! Can it be real what my eyes now behold ? Two small, black, naked wings are....emerging from the sides and......the horrible apparition is clumsily flapping towards me ! I must get to the door before it
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Universal Classic Horror Part 1
Added 2/11/2010
Back in 2004, I was just getting started on loving horror movies forever. I either heard about or I was at Newbury Comics one day and I saw 3 busts of Dracula, Frankenstein and The Wolf Man in a box with 3 DVD box sets of the DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN and THE WOLF MAN movies. Here it goes for a nice description of each movie!
DRACULA (1931): Starring Bela Lugosi, Dwight Frye, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Frances Dade, Herbert Bunston, Charles Gerrard and Michael Visaroff. PLOT: A real estate agent sells a vampire count a castle in England, who then is under Dracula's curse and the blood is drained from townspeople.
The Spanish Version of DRACULA (1931): Starring Carlos Villar, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton, Pablo Álvarez Rubio, José Soriano Viosca, Carmen Guerrero and Eduardo Arozamena. PLOT: (Same story line as the 1931 English classic but with a different cast) A real estate agent sells a vampire count a castle in England, who then is under Dracula's curse and the blood is drained from townspeople.
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936): Starring Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Irving Pichel, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan, Gilbert Emery and Nan Grey. PLOT: Dracula's long lost daughter seeks a cure for her vampirism.
SON OF DRACULA (1943): Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers, Samuel S. Hinds, Frank Craven and J. Edward Bromberg. PLOT: Count Alucard continues his rampage in a small countryside.
HOUSE OF DRACULA (1945): Starring Lon Chaney Jr., Onslow Stevens, Martha O'Driscoll, Glenn Strange, Lionel Atwill, Ludwig Stossel, Jane Adams, John Carradine and Skelton Knaggs. PLOT: A doctor schemes to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster while giving the Wolf Man and Count Dracula a cure for a blood disease and schizophrenia.
This box set is fun and give it a watch if you love Universal's classic horror.
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Fantastic set
Added 1/20/2010
You will get five movies on two discs. What is special about this edition is certainly this second disk which gives you four movies starting Dracula Spanish version, Dracula's Daughter, Son of Dracula and House of Dracula. If you are not interested in those movies there are two other editions offering only Dracula. One is with many additional extra material Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series) and the other Dracula (Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection).
Don't expect miracles in video quality it is watchable and one can not complain a lot. I think it is satisfactory for a movie from 1931. Extras are very nice. You get nice documentary about Dracula from book to screen. There is fantastic audio commentary with historian David J. Skal. You will also find some animated galleries. All in all very enjoyable disk kinda puts me back in my childhood.
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Great Dracula Collection
Added 11/7/2009
"Creatures of the night" and "Children of the night" are featured on this nice package. Formidable movies, considering that most of them were filmed in the early thirties. I used to watch the classic Dracula movies in my younger years, I really loved them, and still do. This is a great collection, well worth having. Also recommended are Frankenstein the Legacy Collection and The Mummy Collection.
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A Long Search Has Ended
Added 10/18/2009
I spent decades trying to find the Spanish Language version of the original Dracula Movie (starring Bela Lugosi) that was filmed at the same time as the original, even using the same sets. This DVD Collection was all that I could have hoped for.
Excellent Transaction, Excellent Service, and of course Excellent Product.
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Dracula meets Philip Glass!!!
Added 2/16/2010
I personally feel that the Philip Glass soundtrack is perfect for this film. The cast is great, the film is great, but by today's standards, the film by itself could seem a little slow, drawn out and overly melodramatic in some parts. Once again, that's from today's standards, and in many ways, this IS the definitive Dracula film...however...
The Philip Glass soundtrack beautifully weaves the whole film together in a hypnotic tapestry and brings much more power to it. In fact, if you just LISTEN to the movie, you will see how perfectly the dialogue and the music work together. The pacing is wonderful. The music also ties together the long, silent, sections. When the actors move, it sometimes appears as if it were choreographed to the score...like a ballet.
I think this was a BRILLIANT IDEA. I can appreciate the "purists" feelings etc., but I sure don't agree with them, and of course you can watch it without the score (as an option). I can now watch this movie over and over again, as the music makes it an audio as well as a video experience.
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Shoddy Packaging for Otherwise Superb Release
Added 1/29/2010
This review refers specifically to the 2-Disc 75th Anniversary edition of Dracula.
Clearly, this 1931 version of "Dracula" is the definitive version of the tale, yet to be surpassed going into 2010. The special features here are fantastic as well: a great tribute to Lugosi, a documentary on the making of the film, a great "Universal Horror" documentary, and the Spanish version of "Dracula". Considering how wonderful this release is, I simply had to award at least three solid stars. Still, those two crucial stars are lost on awfully kitschy, occasionally defective packaging. This probably won't be an issue for most, but any serious DVD collector should be aware of these packaging issues.
The discs are packaged in the "little golden book" packaging that is the norm for all titles in the Universal Legacy Series. It is essentially two plastic trays that connect into each other, held together by a folded piece of cardboard. The problem is that the glue isn't entirely effective, and the trays often detach from the cardboard. I've bought four titles in the Universal Legacy Series, and all but one have fallen apart in this manner. Granted, it's a reasonably simple enough task to reglue the sets, but this wouldn't be an issue at all if the studio would simply package them in standard DVD cases, or even those flimsy Eco-Box cases they're so fond of lately.
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Classic Bela Lugosi. I loved the DVD. I own the majority of Bela Lugosi movies and sadly I hadnt had this one in my collection. I had scene the movie multiple times and know almost every word but had never actually BOUGHT it.
The quality of the dvd was good. I purchased it from a used seller because quite frankly I have no desire to spend a crap load of money on ANY DVD. It came in like new condition. Some people have complained about the soundtrack but I didn't even notice it.
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