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Entries Tagged as 'Bela Lugosi'

The Return of the Vampire (1944, Lew Landers)

February 14th, 2007 No Comments

The Universal monster movies notably ignored modern events–when World War II came around, the clocks turned back on all their European-set monster movies to some indistinguishable point. The Return of the Vampire, a Columbia cheapie, on the other hand, sets the events directly in contemporary settings, both after the First World War and during the […]

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Dracula (1931, Tod Browning)

January 23rd, 2007 No Comments

I never got Dracula. Even as a kid, I never watched it over and over, like I did the other Universal monster movies. When I went back and saw it in the late 1990s–after Ed Wood–Bela Lugosi’s performance horrified me. He makes funny faces and does Charles Atlas exercises for scary body language and woodenly […]

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