Spook Show Cinema #23: Dracula (1958)
Dracula (or The Horror of Dracula as it was retitled for the United States) was released in 1958 and starred the ever classy Peter Cushing as Van Helsing and Sir Christopher Lee as Count Dracula.
Dracula (or The Horror of Dracula as it was retitled for the United States) was released in 1958 and starred the ever classy Peter Cushing as Van Helsing and Sir Christopher Lee as Count Dracula.
I’m just going to come right out and say it. This movie is bizarre. It’s good, but it’s out there. It keeps a nice steady sense of dread and unease but laces it with some twisted dark humor.
Most people (at least people my age and older) know the iconic image of Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man. Most people, however, aren’t familiar with Henry Hull. Henry Hull was the lead in Universal’s first werewolf film, Werewolf of London.