Showing posts with label David Manners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Manners. Show all posts

Friday, February 13, 2026

DRACULA (1931) Turns 95: A Fang-tastic Tribute to Bela Lugosi's Horror Classic

DRACULA (1931) d. Tod Browning (USA) 
DRACULA (Spanish version) (1931) d. George Melford (USA) 
DRACULA’S DAUGHTER (1936) d. Lambert Hillyer (USA) 
SON OF DRACULA (1943) d. Robert Siodmak (USA)




Released on Feb 14, 1931, Dracula from Universal Studios stands as perhaps the most influential horror film ever made. Directed by Tod Browning with cinematography by Karl Freund, the film was adapted from the wildly successful Broadway stage version of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel.

Friday, May 10, 2024

THE BLACK CAT (1934): A TRUE UNIVERSAL CLASSIC TURNS 90!!

THE BLACK CAT (1934) d. Edgar G. Ulmer (USA)




Bearing no resemblance to the original story by Edgar Allan Poe, Universal’s atmosphere-drenched 1934 offering, The Black Cat, from Austrian expatriate Edgar G. Ulmer, is a superior piece of filmmaking, made all the more historic for marking the first and finest on-screen teaming of horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

Thursday, June 27, 2019

THE BLACK CAT (1934) Blu-ray Review



The Black Cat (1934) d. Edgar G. Ulmer (USA) (65 min)

Bearing no resemblance to the original story by Edgar Allan Poe, this atmosphere-drenched offering from Austrian expatriate Ulmer is a superior piece of filmmaking, made all the more historic for marking the first and finest on-screen teaming of horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.