Yes! I like doing that too. Normally when I watch these, I do the whole thing in original release date order (which is basically how I'm doing it this time too)

I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of the Hammer version of Dracula. Wish we could get both that and Curse of Frankenstein on Blu ray sometime soon.

Not actually doing Hammer this year. There's so many I'm going to save that for a Halloween all its own.

Doing that Halloween!

Same here, DANIELDUDE1000!

How old will you be then?

"I prefer to stand, Count!"

I have it on Blu-ray! 😎 Interesting casting having Dracula played by an actor famous for his tanning salons, and sporting quite the tan himself!

@@zaranyzerak Cool! I used to own the Picto Novel, which I read so often the corners were permanently curled from page turning and started falling out from wearing out the binding! I held out on buying videos in any format because unlike television broadcasts in the early 80s, they edited out the song, "I Love The Nightlife" from the cool Disco scene! What th'?!? I've heard it's finally been restored so I'm on board!

Yes, I definitely had a wealth of movie to choose from! I pared it down to the majority of the most well known film adaptations, it's been interesting seeing how they all compare with the book and each other.

I didn't watch the Philip Glass score version, but I did watch the Spanish version. It's the next one in line. :)

In my personal opinion, the Philip Glass score isn't all that great. It's way overused. In some areas, it works great, but in other areas it's just distracting and it gets in the way. It's definitely worth watching though.

I thought about this a little and came to the conclusion the simple reason I preferred the Glass score to no score was simply that it perhaps made the film more "modern" and easier to watch. I need to watch both versions again some time soon. However whenever I get the blu-ray out I always find myself heading for the Spanish version instead.

Thanks! I always thought he should have been a much bigger star, it's a shame he didn't get larger roles.

@@zaranyzerak Well, as with Colin Clive, He Die Quite Young. I think that He had A Heart Attack on Public Transportation

Definitely on the to-do list, along with all the rest of the Universal Monsters movies. :)

It was actually an epilogue, and apparently only appeared on the original release of the film. But similar to how Edward Van Sloan breaks the 4th wall and talks to the audience at the start of Frankenstein, they had something similar as an epilogue for Dracula. From the 1936 releases onward, it was removed and is apparently lost/unusable. Thankfully the Frankenstein one survives and still remains a part of the film. From the imdb trivia page about the film: The original release featured an epilogue with Edward Van Sloan talking to the audience about what they have just seen. This was removed for the 1936 re-release and is now assumed to be lost. The later Frankenstein (1931) similarly copied this model by featuring a prologue. From the wikipedia page: The most significant deletion was an epilogue which played only during the film's initial run. In a scene similar to the prologue from Frankenstein, and also featuring Universal stalwart Edward Van Sloan, he reappeared in a "curtain speech" and informed the audience: "Just a moment, ladies and gentlemen! A word before you go. We hope the memories of Dracula and Renfield won't give you bad dreams, so just a word of reassurance. When you get home tonight and the lights have been turned out and you are afraid to look behind the curtains - and you dread to see a face appear at the window - why, just pull yourself together and remember that after all, there are such things as vampires!" This epilogue was removed out of fear of encouraging a belief in the supernatural. This scene was briefly shown in the "Road to Dracula" documentary, but it may be unusable and can't be restored. It is discussed and shown briefly in the 1999 documentary "The Road to Dracula" . The removal of that scene was one of the two known instances of censorship for re-releases, the other of course being Dracula's death moan and Renfield's screams as he is killed, both of which have bene restored. The epilogue has never been restored, no idea why since the clip apparently exists in some form (it was shown in the Road to Dracula documentary).

Here is all we've seen of the clip, from The Road to Dracula documentary: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e76mZ6-mld7JZac.html I'm guessing the full cip is either incomplete or in such bad condition that's why it has never been restored to the film.

@@zaranyzerak Yeah that's the one I was talking about, an EPILOGUE rather than a warning at the top of the film like in _Frankenstein._ 21:27 "There was also *an intro* if you've seen _Frankenstein_ you may recall there's a lovely little intro with Edward van Sloane kind of warning the audience that this might be a little too scary for them so if you're gonna leave you might want to leave now apparently a similar warning was filmed for _Dracula._ " [Emphasis mine] Intros, generally speaking, aren't at the end of a work. That's why I was asking for a citation regarding the introductory warning of which you spoke.

Yes, the "intro" I was referring to was the one from Frankenstein. All I said regarding the one for Dracula was that there was a "similar warning filmed for Dracula" I didn't specify if it was an intro or epilogue for this one. I may have slightly mis-remembered that piece of trivia as being an intro rather than an epilogue. I'm human. It happens. The point is, the clip exists/existed and used to be a part of the film. That was the only reason I mentioned it, as an interesting tidbit.

There is a distinct possibility I may be talking about the Spanish version in the next review... ;)

Thanks - looking forward to it. Of course I should have second guessed that!

White people not of direct Germanic origin often have difficulty with the Hungarian accent.

Thanks! 🙂