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Fun Fact: In the novel, Dracula is specifically stated to not have an accent, because he trained himself to lose it so he can move to London and blend in with the crowd.

"His taste in humor is more irony" is by far the most clever joke I've heard on the Kill Count

While they’re usually not as requested as more recent films, I absolutely love when James covers much older horror movies, and gets a chance to discuss their impact on the genre!

Thought to myself, "If James doesn't open with a cape and his arm mysteriously over his face, what a missed opportunity." Was not disappointed.

We finally found him, folks. The original Kill Count.

Fun Fact: The iconic line, “Listen to them! Children of the night. What music they make.” was voted number 83 in the top 100 movie quotes of all time.

Hey James! Regarding the “Dracula turning into a wolf” comment, that actually is a common trait associated with vampires. The “turning into bats” idea was from Stoker himself. In folklore, the lines between “werewolf” and “vampire” as we know them by pop culture actually tend to overlap.

I love how Universal Monsters are slowly invading the kill count. The Wolfman has always been my favorite growing up, and I cannot wait until it makes it way onto the count. (If the Dead Meat crew keep with the old movie reviews, maybe we'll get a House on Haunted Hill count, the Vincent Price one.)

It says a lot when a film is nearly a century old and the actor is still considered the definitive version of the character even today. Bela Lugosi is still the definitive Dracula in my book

At the very least James decided to pay more attention to horror films way earlier than the ones we've watch. Those movies from the earlier years deserve to be recognized rather than ignored.

The fact that you mentioned Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter got me excited, because I used to love that movie.

A rumor I heard: Drac’s castle had so many ridiculous animals (Ex. The unironic armadillos) because the filmmakers thought people would just assume he should have weird exotic shit the average viewer in 1931 might associate with some type of animal-shape shifting monster.

My favorite Dracula May be Christopher Lee or Mr. Burns haha, but Lugosi is an absolute legend *Edit: The Hays code sounds similar to KZfaq’s rules haha

another fun fact that people might not know about Bela Lugosi and his role of Dracula, was that he was so fused to the character that when he passed away in 1951 it was rumored that he was asked to be berried in the costume he wore for Dracula

The scene where Dracula confronts Van Helsing is always my favorite part of this movie. Shows how two great performances can really carry a moment that's mostly just dialogue.

Silver was actually used against both vampires and werewolves in lots of old stories. Silver has a history as a purifying metal.

0:36 Shout out to the editor on this one for grabbing the absolute best Castlevania moment for this clip, that speech has no right to go as hard as it does, and I'm glad to see it even briefly on the Kill Count!

That "Dracula in da house" joke had me dying of laughter, great bit James xD (18:06)

The sapphic undertones are interesting because Carmilla which came out 25 years before the Dracula book also carried those undertones

I can't explain why but the "Stop spooking people swan" makes me hurt from laughter so much!!! Excellent work as always James and the rest of the dead meat team

"His taste in humor is more irony" got me good. What a clever joke.

As a romanian i can safely say that this gets an approval from me (also little history fact about Vlad Dracula the Impaler: calling him a Transylvanian Prince is correct as he was born in Transylvania HOWEVER, he ruled Wallachia, which was south of Transylvania. Also his last name is in fact Dracula, as he was part of the Drăculea family/clan, which was known as the Dracula clan to outsiders!)

Dracula's son really said "The ladies called my Dad 'Count Rizzula'" 💀💀

"His taste in humor is more irony" is by far the most clever joke ever used in the kill count

Dare I say this is one of my favorite Kill Counts? The usual care and attention to detail from James and the Dead Meat team is fully on display. Thanks, y’all. Side note: the William Seward reference is maybe my new favorite niche joke on the channel.

2:28 Actually, silver was originally a Vampire weakness, in Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. It's only later that people decided to associate it with Werewolves, just to make it less confusing, while rebalancing those two iconic monsters : Each would have their own abilities and weaknesses. A similar thing happened with Wolf form. Vampires kept a lot of their shapeshifting abilities (most notably, bats and mist), but lost their ability to transform into wolves (which became a pure Werewolf power, only). Vampires also retained many of their weaknesses (such as holy water), but became immune to silver (which harms Werewolves). Vampires are also incredibly strong (Dracula's strength being compared to that of twenty men), but Werewolves became stronger and much bigger. It's just a matter of rebalancing iconic monsters, to make movies more interesting, instead of having everyone say 'Vampires have practically all the powers and Werewolves are just weak men/wolves hybrids. Vampires rule, Werewolves suck - and even when it comes to 'sucking', they remain below Vampires.'

James hitting on Chelsea in kill counts will never not get old hehe. Love the costumes James+Zoran! This is also one of the best and most well written kill counts in terms of joke flow. Also, I'm also loving the additional info on "let's get to the kills" more and more

“It’s a straight up invisible ass!” Had me on the ground

The delivery of “I’ll stop now” is comedy gold. I don’t think your line delivery skills get enough praise!

Such a flashy outfit, James! I love it!

3:38 “Stop spooking people Swann!”

The scene where Van Hellsing resists Dracula might be one of my favorite scenes in all of cinema, Really great acting from both of them. You feel like they really could destroy each other.

Y’know, having read the Dracula book, I always find it odd yet humorous that every single film adaption manages to shaft John Harker in their own unique way despite him being the one to actually kill Drac (with help from a certain Texan who’s only been in 1 movie and a TV miniseries). Hell, I’d go so far as to argue that Jonathan Harker is the main protagonist of the book, and yet almost every adaptation somehow takes the spotlight from him and puts it on Prof. Van Helsing, who actually gets curbstomped by Drac the one time they fought face to fang in the book.

I love the way they highlight Dracula’s eyes with a beam of light…. So simple but effective

Love the coverage of the classic horror films. Definitely hoping to see Phantom Of The Opera at some point

OMG. This was the movie I watched with my Grandpa as a kid(he died in 2005 at 76) thank you for releasing this. Made me think of him.

This was the first horror movie I ever watched. My mom was a huge fan and showed it to me. Now it’s one of my favorites 🥰

I love seeing a Kill Count on a Universal Monster movie because while the deaths aren’t graphic there still something to appreciate about these films that were early beginnings of the horror genre in cinema. If James can’t do all universal monster movies for a Kill Count I would love for it to be a podcasts episode and have the whole universal monsters movie franchise get highlighted.

Loved the spongebob reference at 3:52

i loved the iconic scene when he says “it’s morbin time”

I'm sure older films don't get as many views as most of your kill counts, but I'd love to see more. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari could certainly be an interesting one and expose the film to people who otherwise would never give a silent film a chance. Thanks for all the great videos!

Finally, a movie fit for a count! Honestly, I've been super excited for this kill count for years.

Bela absolutely murdered the role, deserves all the praise today for his Dracula. The Ed Wood scene with him in the "chair" is absolutely great to his lore in cinema.

Crazy how well this film holds up at 90+ years old. Other than the bats theres nothing I would change.

“His taste in humor is more irony” has got to be the greatest line ever on this show. Bravo James and Co.

I've heard that the creation of Dracula started the modern-day depiction of vampires and their abilities. There was this video called "Grudge Match Unlimited 14: Vampires vs Werewolves" that mentioned that vampires were a bit more like zombies that would leave the ground to drink from the living at night and go back to the ground before the sun came up.

“Draculas taste in humor is more irony” Not only a great joke but a clever joke only horror buffs will catch on

I love how once Dracula realizes that Van Helsing and the others know his secret, he pretty much screws with them for the rest of the movie. It’s kinda funny.

Nearly a hundred years later and it's still one of the finest movies ever made. The silent sequences add SO much to the overall atmosphere.

James, Chelsea and Co. this is one of the best Kill Counts you've done. Cheers to many more!

Fun fact: Philip Glass also composed the score for Candyman (1991) and he also made orchestral renditions of David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy

I love Kill Counts from older movies. Thanks for doing these, James. I imagine they are not very algorithm-friendly, so I really appreciate the effort you and your time put into making these.

imagine how different the horror genre would be if we didn't have bela lugosi's dracula, boris karloff's frankenstein, or lon chaney's phantom of the opera. they definitely helped create the horror genre

I'm kind of old myself, my grandmother actually saw this at the movies when it first came out. She said once it was the way the Renfield guy acted that scared her. I read the book, and it must have come out when they could do blood transfusions, but did not know about blood types. The doctor says in the book that sometimes transfusions work, and sometimes they kill the patient. There are lots of transfusions in the book, from and to various characters, they all work.

If you saw the third “Hotel Transylvania”, you would’ve seen that in the beginning which was a flashback to before Dracula met Martha and had Mavis that in one of the scenes where Van Helsing tried hunting him down, Drac was in a wolf form.

4:25 during the business gag, I love how his monocle falls off at 4:28 as he is shocked to hear Dracula’s name.

I remember borrowing this from the library a few years back. Bela Lugosi's performance was just phenomenal. Every scene he was in was enchanting in some way. Which reminds me, I've got to check out the other Universal horror movies.

"Dracula is basically Universal's Iron Man" Wow, I never even thought someone would call Dracula that.

Those Universal Monster movies were my introduction to B&W movies. I started watching them about 10 years ago when I was 12, then I got obsessed with Hitchcock, Kubrick and now I love black & white movies in general.

So excited to see the old Universals featured -- this was great and The Wolf Man will be the same! Also Dracula's Daughter is SUPER UNDERRATED. Like it's a fantastic movie, and no one seems to know about it. Talk about sapphic undertones...

This episode perfectly encapsulates why I love this show to death! The variety in topics and movies, the costumes, the humor, the passion dripping from every frame of it, it's all just bloody awesome!

This film will forever be ICONIC 🦇

Fun Fact: Bram Stoker is from Dublin and you can still see his house to this day! (also side note: I think it's absolutely amazing that Dracula has exploded so much, people really don't give the Irish enough credit for there contributions)

I’ve seen James talking about the lower amount of views on this KC, which is a shame, because this is honestly one of my favorites yet. Great job, James and Dead Meat!

Fun fact about the book: Apparently, Dracula is a book version of a found-footage movie. It consists of dairy entries, newspaper clippings, etc. What's scary about the Dracula book isn't the monster itself, but the build-up and suspense. (Source: OSP)

This was my grandad's favorite movie. when I was six we would watch old horror movies. he would show me old movie posters. He passed on in 2017 I was his only grandkid so he gave me his film collection. Thank you James for covering this movie : )

10:48 I laughed when you did that

Love the classic horror movie monsters! So much fun watching these movies. Also have to say that Chelsey looked like she was channeling her inner Buffy with that stake.

10:36 ~ No, she's selling flowers for a gentleman's Button Hole. It's a lapel flower. You insert it through the unfastened button hole just below the left shoulder. A nice little flower accessory for a high-class gentleman's suit. Often picked by, and then sold by poor women to make a few coins. Ironically, the women were often elderly. But I guess even back then, hinting at an elderly woman being done away with was just too horrifying. So they used a younger one instead.

Honestly the reveal of Van Helsing was so cool to me i dont know why, really cool character to me, and i love the way James just gives context to everything that might have come up as weird in the movie because sometimes i was confused, and can i say the outfit is great?

I just wanna go on record and say that doing Kill Counts on these older films is awesome, it’s great to have a “lesson” of sorts of horror history. Much love to James and the team!

10:43 I think what she is selling is those flowers that people on their coat. In basic, she is selling lapel flowers.

You killed it in this one James, hilarious script and very informative~*

13:00 - “Dr. Otto Octavius” haha nice one, James.

I read the original Dracula book this year and it has become an instant favorite which made me eager to check up as many theatical versions as possible. Needless to say, I was jumpy when I saw this Kill Count appear and really showing why this version is a classic

I highly recommend everyone to put the subtitles on, if you haven’t, you’ve been missing out! Hats off to the cc!!👌

4:42 it's true, Dracula can turn into a wolf. In fact you could consider him in the original novel as a between between Wolves and Vampires before they diverged again

apparently there was a silent version of this movie (for the theaters without the fitting technique) and i heard that they had a shot where you can see the death of dracula more explicitly.

10:00 "His taste taste in humor is more irony" is such a good subtle joke

Honestly I would love to see this channel cover psycho, as it's generally considered one of the first impactful slasher/horror movies (at least what from I generally heard and read from other people)

GLORIOUS 11:24 XD

4:42 As you mentioned, it is based from the original book, which does mention that Dracula not only can turn into a wolf, but also calls the nearby wolves "The children of the night".

The puns and jokes are so good! Also this movie was so terrifying, although not as much as Nosferatu (1922)

Excellent work as always James! Not only great laughs as always, but a lesson in horror movie history.

This is one of my all time favourite films! I love the atmosphere and how much of it defined the early pop-culture images of Vampires. Heck, I'd even describe Bella Lugosi's performance here as subtle (in the context of the film). Of course he's chewing the scenery as much as any villain, but if you look at him during the theatre scene, his outfit and mannerisms aren't all that different from anyone else. For the time, when vampire mythos wasn't as well known as it was today, Dracula would just be some eccentric foreign count, with no reason to suspect he's an unearthly creature of the night. This makes Van Helsing's detective work even better in hindsight. You could say that it was Van Helsing, not Dracula, who codified the Vampire tropes since it's him who shows all the red flags for those in the know. Van Helsing made sure that people knew what signs to look for in a Vampire, bringing traditional folklore to the big screen. So while the effects are indeed extremely primitive, I feel it adds to the charm, especially when you look at it through the lens of early cinema. As James mentioned, both effects work and direction were coming in leaps and bounds, as Frankenstein proved. You could say the universal horror monster movies are what pushed for cinema to define itself as distinct from theatre! So for all its flaws, this movie fascinates me, and still has some amazing comic relief even after 85+ years!

Love this movie so much despite how it’s aged I think it holds up as an absolute classic

Love you taking a look at old/original horror! Would love to see more!

I personally love James's horrible Dracula impersonation.

That “to the numbers” bit is pure gold!

Fun fact: the bee at 5:18 is supposed to be a giant bee in a human sized coffin, but the special effects don’t really sell it well so it looks like a bee with a custom made tiny coffin.

I can't believe more people aren't watching this. Dracula is one of the cornerstones of the horror movie genre. Today it might seem slightly campy, but that's only because of Lugosi's performance has become part of the "language" of horror. And James does a fantastic job of dissecting the movie and adding in great pieces of info (I knew that they simultaneously filmed a Spanish language version but I didn't know that that version had better production values) as well as interesting observations about the characters' motivations. You also have to transport yourself back in time 90 years, as a theater-goer for whom movies with sound is still a novelty. In the darkened theater, watching (and hearing Renfield losing his sanity. That must have been terrifying. This may not be Chelsea's cup of tea, but I'd sure watch any podcast she'd be willing to do on this movie, or even this mini-genre (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy etc.). I think that would be awesome. So watch this Kill Count---you won't be disappointed.

0:31 Not to forget, Dracula's also been parodied as a mathematical puppet on Sesame Street, caricatured as a wax figure in cheap chambers of horrors, and he's also been parodied as a chocolate, sugar-saturated breakfast cereal named Count Chocula. 21:15 Oh wait, you already pointed out Count Von Count! 😅

LOVE THE VIDEO! Some fun facts about Dracula: -Lucy, though turned into a vampire like in the book, isn’t ever brought up again after seeing her undead form, because staking her was too violent. In the Spanish film, she is killed off-screen, but in this one she’s just... there still -In the official graphic novel of this film, released by Universal in a collection that also included The Mummy, Frankenstein, and Creature From the Black Lagoon (entitled Cavalcade of Monsters, if I remember right), Renfield’s death is much more graphic; the “hug” is Dracula literally ripping his beating heart out of his chest (then he tumbled down the stairs) -The script would be repurposed into The Mummy the following year; a timeless monster seeking the fiancée of a helpless protagonist, who’s aided by a wise older professor. The story beats are note for note-and Harker’s actor David Manners and Van Helsing’s actor Edward Van Sloan both play pretty much the same people! -The only other time Lugosi officially played Dracula was in Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein which was almost 2 decades later! Please consider a ranking video when the other major films have been covered (The Mummy; The Wolf Man; Creature From the Black Lagoon) of all the Universal Monsters! It’d be great to hear your thoughts on them compared to one another!

The classics are definitely worth a view. Sometimes it is nice to see how things started and how far they have come since.

I love this classic movie it’s truly one of the most iconic films ever made

Petition for James to make a playlist for all universal monster movie killcounts. (I mean the really known ones) We are missing some like: Creature from black lagoon, Wolfman, Phantom of thre Opera. It could be a fun time!

Nothing beats a Friday afternoon Kill Count! James is such an amazing presenter it's actually crazy. ♥️

Remfield is the best wing man ever. The editing in this video was on point

I have just started watching the newer kill counts and I’ve forgotten how much I love them. Also the “don’t get cross with me” joke is the most big brain thing ever. So funny.