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SATURDAY: Son of Frankenstein. (1939) Third of the famous Frankenstein series leads off Classic Horror with Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and Bela Lugosi...
HARKNESS COMMONS. Dracula with Bella Lugosi...
Dracula. The original 1931 horror classic with Bela Lugosi as the Vampire Count loose on unsuspecting London...
...Murnau's 1921 film was the first screen version of Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, and one of the more intriguing works of German Expressionism. Special effects within a natural setting create a macabre atmosphere unmatched by the remakes but Max Schreek, as the vampire, doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first major role...
Moro is a genius of the erotically macabre. Next to him, Lugosi is as benign as a bishop. "Bela," says Moro, "had the mannerisms, the Transylvanian suavity, the cape work, all that, but I don't think he ever really felt the urges." Moro feels them down to his hairy gray toes, because he understands the truth about monsters. They are not something else, but projections of ourselves turned inside...