While silent films could easily be sold to other countries, sound film could not. In the late 1920s, Hollywood studios depended on the successful exportation of their films to other countries. Lupita Tovar and Carlos Villarías in the film. Van Helsing drives a stake through the vampire's heart, and as Eva and Harker leave, Van Helsing prays over Renfield's body.Ĭast adapted from the book Universal Horrors (2007): Deep in the catacombs under Carfax, they find Dracula asleep and Eva still alive. They follow Renfield into Carfax Abbey-an act which ends with Dracula killing his slave by strangulation, and then tossing him from a tall staircase. With Seward's and Harker's help, Van Helsing seeks to trap Dracula, who outwits them and escapes with Eva by seizing control of a nurse's mind. To her horror, she feels increasingly weak and also increasingly wild-at one point attacking her fiancé Juan. By now, Seward's daughter Eva is falling under his spell. But soon after meeting the Doctor's new neighbor, Van Helsing figures out that Dracula is a vampire-based on the fact that Dracula casts no reflection in the mirror. Seward's patient Renfield is somehow tied up in events. Professor Van Helsing is called in, and he recognizes the danger for what it is. Lucia is completely fascinated by him and that night becomes his victim. When the ship reaches England, he is the only living person found.ĭracula meets Dr. Aboard ship, a now-enslaved Renfield laughs maniacally below as Dracula picks off the crew one by one. After drinking drugged wine, Renfield collapses, still wearing the cross, and is bitten. When he arrives at the Castle, the Count bids him welcome. They tell him Count Dracula is a vampire and when he doesn't believe them, one insists he wear a cross. He mentions his destination, Castle Dracula, to the locals who react with alarm. Renfield, a solicitor, makes a journey into Transylvania via stagecoach.

In 2015, Dracula was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. Critical reception to this film often compared the two versions of Dracula with some critics weighing the pros and cons of both based on the explicitness of the Spanish version with its costumes and scenes, the film's length, and the performance of Carlos Villarías as Count Dracula. A screening at the Museum of Modern Art in 1978 led to a popular home video release on VHS in 1992. It received greater attention after a print for the film was found in New Jersey. The film was released in Cuba in 1931 and for a long time was forgotten, only mentioned briefly by some horror film historians in the 1960s and 1970s. Director Melford watched the footage of the same day and applied what he saw to film his own version. Filming began on Octowhere it was shot on the same sets as Tod Browning's production of Dracula. By 1930, Universal had focused primarily on developing Spanish-language films for the foreign market. This leads to Professor Van Helsing ( Eduardo Arozamena) to investigate, who confirms that Count Dracula is a vampire.ĭracula was made as part of Hollywood studios' attempts to make films for foreign-language audiences.

The two travel to England, where Dracula begins to seduce Lucy Westenra (Carmen Guerrero) as she becomes his first victim. He is drugged by the Count and becomes his minion. The film is about Renfield (Pablo Alvarez Rubio), who travels to Translyvania to visit Count Dracula. The film is based on both the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker and the play Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Dracula is a 1931 American horror film directed by George Melford.

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