Eighty-seven years ago today, Tod Browning’s Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, was released on an unsuspecting world. Billed as The Strangest Love a Man Has Ever Known,
it is perhaps the most culturally significant horror film ever made. It has
been imitated, parodied and dismissed, but it created a classic series of films
and an entire genre that shows no sign of stopping.
While sipping your (red) wine on this Valentine’s Day,
spare of thought for Bela Lugosi, whose contribution to Gothic Cinema is
incalculable.
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