Dracula's Daughter

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Call Number: DVD Horror Dracula
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Special features include: trailers, production notes, cast and filmmakers.
Dracula's daughter (71 min.), 1936 -- Son of Dracula (82 min.), 1943.
Dracula's daughter: Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan, Nan Grey, Hedda Hopper.
Son of Dracula: Louise Allbritton, Robert Paige, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Craven, J. Edward Bromberg, Samuel S. Hinds, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Dracula's daughter: Dr. Von Helsing, thinking he has rid London of all vampires, is instead arrested for murder. Just when Von Helsing's fate seems sealed, the bodies suddenly disappear. Soon several people are found mysteriously killed, their bodies drained of all blood.
Son of Dracula: Lon Chaney, Jr. portrays Count Alucard, Dracula's son, in this story of a Southern heiress who winds up under the evil spell of the Count.
DVD ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 2.0 mono ; NTSC, region 1.
Contents: Son of Dracula. -- Dracula's daughter. -- Dracula's guest.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Poor imitations submitted by GJBarnett2 on August 2, 2019, 11:10am Spin-offs or perhaps better seen as exploitation films. Many better alternatives for the Dracula theme are available. Strictly speaking, Dracula never appears in either film, only his progeny, perhaps because the producer was trying to work within the storyline that the Count was killed in the 1931 Lugosi version. "Daughter" is simply a pale version (bloodless?) without him but holds to the narrative and the timeline. The producer of "Son Of" might have done better to set it as a prequel to Lugosi's version to preserve the timeline and to have cast Lugosi rather than Lon Chaney in the starring role. Chaney is simply no Lugosi, who had given his iconic performance only 12 years before "Son Of" was filmed in 1943 and was only 42 at that time and so still age-appropriate for the part.

It's different submitted by majean on July 27, 2022, 6:44pm I heard about this on the Rose Sinister: Vampires podcast, which was a terrific and interesting analysis. I enjoyed the movie, but that enjoyment may have been heightened because of the podcast.