An exciting melodrama, not as good as it ought to be but a cut above the ordinary trapdoor-and-winding-sheet type of mystery film.

| Oct 15, 2008

A sublimated ghost story related with all surface seriousness and above all with a remarkably effective background of creepy atmosphere.

| Oct 7, 2008

The opening scenes, set in Dracula's castle, are magnificent -- grave, stately, and severe. But the film becomes unbearably static once the action moves to England.

| Sep 25, 2007

Not by any means the masterpiece of fond memory or reputation, although the first twenty minutes are astonishingly fluid and brilliantly shot by Karl Freund.

| Jan 26, 2006

With Mr. Browning's imaginative direction and Mr. Lugosi's makeup and weird gestures, this picture succeeds to some extent in its grand guignol intentions.

| May 20, 2003

When Bela Lugosi died he was buried wearing one of his original silk capes. Forever cloaked, he casts his shadow still.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2002

Certainly it is Lugosi's performance, and the cinematography of Karl Freund, that make Tod Browning's film such an influential Hollywood picture.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000