It's now been 92 years since it's theatrical release and it still give me chills. Thank you Bela for a great performance.

Thank you for spotlighting Dwight Frye's performance! His performances are too often overlooked.

The movie Ed Wood has Martin Landau playing an old Bela Lugosi toward the end of his life. A great portrayal that garnered Landau an Oscar for his performance. It's a great watch, especially for anyone that might be interested in seeing an old Lugosi after all the fame and fortune had deserted him.

I think Bela Lugosi was a real sport about this character. True, it did kind of limit his future roles, but he did use it to please his fans. He even took on the role again in an Abbot and Castello comedy movie, and he even requested to be buried in the same Dracula cape and coat he wore in the movie.

As a kid growing up in the 70's the TV stations played those old movies saturday afternoon. Watched them all 100 times, B. Lugosi, L. Chaney, Abbot and Costello, Creature From the Black Lagoon, you name it. Loved the werewolf, it really conveyed personal tragedy.

Was not expecting this but, as usual, Mark has brought his insightfulness to it. More please.

Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, and Frank Langella ...my three favorite Draculas.

Well done. Lugosi was laid to rest in costume as Dracula.

Bela lugosi Dracula was the most amazing one ever

Love rereading the book. And love Bela.

Minty you've opened up Pandora's Box.....You know that you'll have to do the rest of the Universal Monsters....lol

Count Dankula did an Absolute Mad Lads on Sir Christopher Lee.... 2 of them actually, well deserved!

Lugosi was always worried about being typecast after he was Dracula, but when he knew he was about to die, he made plans to be buried in his Dracula cape...and so he was

As soon as I saw this I immediately clicked it what a great movie to pick

One of my favorite films

I love Bela Lugosi as Dracula. Everyone in the cast including Van Helsing and Renfield were spot-on. However, the Spanish version had better camera techniques and he better Style.

This movie looks even better in color!

Thanks Minty for bringing to life these old horror movies. These movies made a real impact on me, giving me a thrill and the chills as I covered my eyes watching these movies. Nothing like old-fashioned technology transforming Bela to a bat, turning a man into a werewolf and watching a man unwrap himself to become the Invisible Man. Oh, what a time. Hope you can bring to life all those other great movies to include my favorites, 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein' and 'The Bride of Frankenstein."

I have to agree with Minty about the actor portraying Renfield: that had to be most unhinged, truly amazing performance in the entire movie. Even now, when I recall Renfield's insane giggling, it gives me shivers!

Bell Lugosi was so enamored with his role, he was buried in his Dracula cape. Indeed he will forever be Dracula.

Fun fact: The classic silent Dracula adaptation: "Nosferatu" got a remake in 1979 from Werner Herzog called *"Nosferatu The Vampyre"* and stars Klaus Kinski as Dracula (who originally played Reinfield in Jesús Franco's adaptation of "Dracula" starring Hammer's Dracula: Sir Christopher Lee). And in 2000, "Nosferatu" got a meta period comedy horror film called *"Shadow of The Vampire"* produced by Nicholas Cage's Saturn Films with Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck who IS a real vampire and John Malkovich as a cold-hearted version of German director F. W. Murnau.

RIP Bela Lugosi!! 🦇

Many years ago, I had a happy summer night watching Dracula with The Philip Glass Quartet playing live accomplishment. It was at Wolftrap's outdoor stage and I swear I saw a bat 😁

This is one of your finest episodes.

Impressive and comprehensive VLOG. Will watch DR31 later online.

10-15 years ago I was digging through the bargain bin at Walmart....found nos feratu....but with the band type o-negative playing the soundtrack. (It had been cut up a bit to fit the pacing. But it was frickin beautiful how well it worked. Definitely the best 5 dollar bin score ever

My favorite dracula is interview with a vampire yet it would not be possible with out the original.

I thought for a second there you were going to say Dracula dead and loving it.

Ed wood might be one of if not my favorite Depp movie. Even though it's not 100% historically accurate it gives you more respective on how much this role made and destroyed Legosi. Love it

My God. I LOVE THIS FILM !!!!

LMAO!!! My friends and I have used that exact same statement about several movies, “OMG, they’ve Lucased this movie” It’s ruined!! Love that someone as movie savvy as you is also using that. Long time fan!!

Love your work. Is there a chance of giving Christopher Lee version of Dracula some love

Awesome! I loved this. I clicked on my phone notification thinking i seen that it was Dracula Dead and loving it. I was not disappointed!

If it wasn't for the depression, this movie would have been so much more epic. Still my go to Dracula

I love that you're using the Bram stokers movie soundtrack. This is my favorite.

A wonderful overview of one of my favorite movies!

Last weekened my local theater had a double feature showing this movie & it was a really cool experience.

I hope I am not the only one who would enjoy learning about the classic flicks from back in The Golden Age.

The 4K physical media restoration of this is absolutely amazing.

Great one Minty. Really enjoyed this one.

Fun fact when Christopher Lee was playing Dracula he wore one of his rings

This was a treat! 🦇

Renfield, laughing as he stood in the stairway from the hold the scariest bit in the movie. Like his mind was completely gone and pure evil took over. Max Schreck's vampire was even scarier than Bela Lugosi's vampire because the Schreck vampire looked like a reanimated corpse devoid of emotion. BTW - I wonder why there were armadillos at Dracula's castle. Anyone noticed that?

My favorite version of Dracula. My very first Dracula movie.

Definitely a Cult Film, Bela Lugosi pulled this off!! This Film also inspired future dracula films to come later!! Great job Mr. Minty!! Keep it comimg.

Bela Lugosi was Dracula. Nobody else compares with him. Bela also could’ve been Frankenstein in 1931 but he couldn’t understand how he could shine as an actor underneath all of that make up that Frankenstein character had to wear. So Boris Karloff got the part. The rest is history. Bela Lugosi would end up playing the Frankenstein monster in the 1943 movie Frankenstein versus the Wolfman.

Great analysis, Mark. I had no idea people at the time found it so frightening.

This film isn’t the most faithful adaptation of the novel but it’s still one of my favorite Dracula films and the restoration looks incredible for its age.

The only more bonkers & awesome Renfield is Peter MacNicol in Dracula Dead and Loving It. I love him. 😄

"George lucas-ing" I laughed out loud! Spot on!

I totally agree it’s one of the most beautiful haunting shakespearean scary stories of history of literature Brian stokers Dracula 🧛‍♂️

Quote Bela Lugosi 'Dracula is Hamlet to me'

A great movie. Bela Lugosi played Dracula twice once in Dracula in (1931) second in Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein in (1948).

Technically the original person was Prince Vlad III, Dracula was more or less a title that means Dragon. Tepes, pronounced Tepesh, just means Impaler, not his actual surname. Otherwise, yet another perfect video.

One of my favourite films of all time, thanks for sharing this insightful video I learned a few news things about Dracula from this!

Loved this episode! Great work! Perhaps Frankenstein or wolfman episode, sometime?

Thank You for ANOTHER Great and In-Depth Video 😀

Interesting fact: Bela Lugosi was an ACTUAL vampire. That’s why all his scenes are shot inside.

Bela Lugosi is buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Los Angeles I visit him every time I go there.

Just watched this film for the first time yesterday. It was quite good!!

13:10 - This was the early days of SOUND cinema. The movie industry was well-established long before 1931. As for soundtracks, westerns were the first "talkies" to use music scores that were not, themselves, musicals. Good job as usual.

Great going, Minty. Be nice if you could do some more classics.

The absolute BEST movie and actor combination for the character of Dracula!

This was one of your best Minty!

Modern day horror movies do nothing for me, however I can watch the classics over and over again, especially the Hammer Films movies. Would love to see you do a video on Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

Excellent episode!

Thank you Minty! Dear god thats a classic. 🤠

Have the DVD,VHS,and recorded on my DVR.....Greatest horror movie ever.I have all the old ones,Wolf Man,Invisible man.....And the Universal Book....My favorites........................Ralph Onofrio

BONUS FACT: When Bela Lugosi passed away in 1956, he was buried in his Dracula costume, but the cape was a replica.

I have the DVD box containing the two movies. I agree that the Spanish one is really good. In some ways better.

Another great video. Thanks, Minty!

05:11 coincidently, Schreck is also the german word for "fear" or "shock". Tim Burton also named the Villain of "Batman Returns" after the german actor Max Schreck. I guess you can translate his name as maximum shock!🤣

One of the BEST Top 3

I never realized that Coppola got the idea for Dracula starting out as an old man and getting younger as he fed from the original concept for the 1931 production. Being the student of cinema he is, I'm sure that's where he got it from.

Bela Lugosi was such a great actor but had such a sad end to his life......

Excellent Minty! Loved this one very muchly! :D

Excellent video! 🖤

And Bella Lugosi last movie Plan 9 from planet zero. Reprised his role. Sadly, it was his last..

Don't know how I missed seeing this when you first posted it, but I love that you're expanding into the classic horror genre. I'd love to see more!

I can’t think of Dracula without hearing that one organ piece of music

This movie creeped me out as a kid. For some reason my parents had me watching really old movies like this, the original King Kong, etc

You should do all the classic universal monsters movies this was awesome 👍👍

No dive off screen. A new Minty ending👍🏼😀

Thanks, I enjoyed this.

What a great, new direction for your show! Perfect for film lovers everywhere

Great video!

The classics will never die. Long live Bela Legosi

Dracula with Bela Lugosi is my favorite horror movie I also loved the Rest of the Universial Monster movies. they were well done and proved you didn't need Blood , Guts and nudity to make a good horror movie.

Great video, love those Stephen King vhs tapes you got

I can't imagine those other people playing Dracula. Bela Lugosi was perfect!

Your videos are excellent, Mark! I never miss an episode. I particularly enjoyed this one. Dracula is nearly a century old now, and it is still a timeless classic. Keep up the excellent work!

This reminds me, assuming you haven't already made one about Frankenstein, if you do you should explore how it is we all came to know the hunchback assistant as Igor, when his name was Fritz. That name seems to have come up in subsequent remakes and spoofs. There was an Igor in Bride of Frankenstein, but that was a completely different character.

Thank you, it is one of your best and most fascinating videos... Michael - South Africa

This will always be the best Dracula movie ever.

Fun fact: Bela Lugosi never wore fangs as Dracula or any other vampire role. The only time he wore fangs was in his role of Ygor in Son of Frankenstein and Ghost of Frankenstein. Carlos Villarias didn't wear fangs either. The sad thing about Dracula is we have gone from Bela Lugosi's iconic horror performance that terrified audiences for generations ... to sparkling eternal teenagers who couldn't scare a fly. Yeeesh....

"GeorgeLucasing".....i like that verb.... LOL

You now need to do one on Blackula.

Great Video Minty! One caveat though, Vlad's last name was Tepis. Dracula was an inherited title of knighthood from his father, who's title was Dracul.

Great video of a great movie. Hey, where are you filming from?

Love that house!