Dracula (1931) 2 Bela Lugosi Music by PHILIP GLASS

[saabey1]

IN SCHOOL WE ARE DOING COMPOSERS!!!!!!! (Mine is Philip Glass) :P

[cadorbolin]

I never liked the original Dracula movie until I saw the version with the added music. To me, it enhances it and gives it the power of a silent film.

[Nemesis7293]

A decent piece of music on it's own, but an utter failure as a "score" for the 1931 "Dracula", because it ignores the BASIC tenets of film scoring. A film score MUST comment upon, and underscore the action taking place on screen. This "score" simply "plays" repetitively, it has NO relation to anything happening on screen. It, therefore, has NO value to the film and is actually an insult in that it is merely a distraction. More an exercise for Phillip Glass's ego than anything else. Sad.

[Shallowhearted]

oh my.. Philip glass is such a great composer and musician.

[yoda9252001]

this theme scared the shit out of me i first saw this movie when i was a little boy there was something about the theme that scared the shit out of me

[Shallowhearted]

@yoda9252001

Music is magic. It can control your feellings. It can make you sad, happy or even scared.

Only great musicians can achieve to pass the feelling they wish to their listeners.

And Philip Glass was one.

[yoda9252001]

@Shallowhearted o hell yea philip class was one of the greatest at that time and these monster movies are master piece horror classics these movies invented horror and will last for ages and ages to come

[Shallowhearted]

@yoda9252001

ikr!

[yoda9252001]

@Shallowhearted which monsters your favorite mine is wolf man

[Nemesis7293]

@yoda9252001 This blasphemous bullshit was added to the film in 1999. Were you a "little boy" in 1999?

[yoda9252001]

this theme scared the shit out of me i first saw this movie when i was a little boy there was something about the theme that scared the shit out of me

[TheSecondR]

children of the night, what music they make...

[rgsith2]

I enjoy the fierceness of the piece because it is the heart and soul of Dracula.

[loverlangenkalkoen]

i like 5:51 most

[KirAWareme]

It's amazing I watch horror/slasher/psychological thrillers/ gore and many disturbing films and am very numb to most of it. And with as many times as I watch the Dracula from 1931 both the scene where the boat is discovered and the scene where Bela Lugosi is walking Dwight Frye or (Renfield) up the staircase freak me out lol This film is sincerely one of the best for a main reason the actors were acting and the music was divine.

[Dank951]

The film composer who scored 'The Village' (2004) used 6:00 and a little beyond it.

[Hotchilipepprz4]

1:34 is the best part :} but it is all great

[TheUserOfTheName]

Is there anywhere a repetition or variation of the part from 1:01 to 1:10 on the soundtrack? I love the piece even it's hardly nine seconds long. Sorry if my english is bad I'm from Austria ;)

[darthneji1992]

This music has stayed with me since i heard it when I was still a kid. I remember watching this version I think in 1999 and just becoming absorbed in the Universal horror monsters. Twilight and stuff may be dominate at the moment, but classics and such beautifully haunting music will forever be remembered and cherished. This film and this music is art in it's purest form, and I'm so happy I was raised on this sort of stuff.

[MrJackal95]

@darthneji1992 I completely agree, this and other Universal Monsters movies are true classics, Twilight will only be popular for a few more years until it is utterly forgotten, but these classics will forever be cherished by us and many generations to come.

[Dank951]

@MrJackal95 True! Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's "The Vampire Chronicles" will live on as classic vampire litarature. Anne Rice is a very magnificent author too who is nothing like Stephenie Meyer...Anne writes and dives into mystery, horror, sorrow, pain, and life of the vampire. She picks up where Bram left off at.

[Nemesis7293]

@darthneji1992 Phillip Glass's repetitive, simple minded, piece of shit pseudo-"score" has NO relation to Todd Browning and Bela Lugosi's brilliant 1931 "Dracula" It was "overlayed" on the film simply as a marketing decision by Universal. Have you never noticed that this "score" has zero relation to anything happening onscreen? It even plays through scene transitions! No REAL score does that! Get a clue!!!

[darthneji1992]

@Nemesis7293 Do you feel better about yourself for having a difference of opinion? I agree with you wholeheartedly, regarding music in film, but my comment was merely posted to explain my love for this film. If you want I can put my extnsive knowledge of filmmaking into play, and make you feel inferior. The point is, I am not a score aficionado, but you have no right to talk down to me for having a difference of opinion. You are knowledgeable, but you are arrogant. Grow up.

[DragonWorship006]

Bela Lugosi is the original and best Hollywood Dracula ever.

[sosome57]

I think Bela Lugosi could scare the crap out of any little kid! He scared the crap out of me, too! So did Lon Chaney, Jr., in The Wolfman movies, and Boris in the Frankenstein and Mummy movie(s) - can't remember if he did more than one. And whoever played Creature From The Black Lagoon. And I LOVED IT! :) These are GREAT movies! Hollywood should take note. Women knew how to scream back then! Good Stuff! Like Philip Glass, too. I had this and I loved the movie with the score.

[eddievaliant1]

Bela Lugosi is really scary in this movie

[akitodarkangel]

Yeah, he is. He was so intense...

[TenderTrap86]

I wish Universal okayed a DVD release with Dracula put to the music of their other monster movies. I saw the movie with this soundtrack and it screws up the entire movie. Even the comedic relief parts are unlaughable because this music is so poorly timed and intrusive.

[raider8sox]

The Legendary Bela Lugosi scared the crap out of me, when i first saw dracula when i was a little kid, lol:)

[Svanvit666]

i love philip glass, he did an amazing job on writing the score to this, and the kronos quartet do an amazing job of playing it :-)

[Nemesis7293]

@Svanvit666 Phillip Glass wrote a repetitive, simple minded, pseudo-"score" for "Dracula". A "score" has SOME, even small, relation to what is occurring onscreen. What Glass wrote simply "plays" throughout. It has ZERO connection with the film....even to the point of playing, uninterrupted, THROUGH scene transitions. It is simply a generic piece of music rudely appended to a masterpiece.

[ysbaddaden2003]

I prefer Swan Lake.

[lloydgoodman94]

whats this theme call cause its no the crypt

[pookoos]

The first theme you hear is "The Crypt" from the score.

[grecoguy75]

Haunting...beautiful... a true masterpiece .

[123peytonE]

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[123peytonE]

better than swan lake. (see dracula 1931 theme bela lugosi by ThePeoplesMuseum

[wheatthin488]

Amazingly haunting yet beautiful. It will haunt me where ever I go

[TheRoyalPredator]

What is the name of this theme?

[hXbradshaw]

Its entitled "The Crypt"

[ShakespeareHamlet]

Is this a good movie? (Good score).

[c0nzo12]

its one of my favourite movies ever

[tommygunatxta]

The Kronos Quartet is amazing!

[ElektraKid83]

...so beautiful...it is gentle, mysterious and somber at the same time.

[Nemesis7293]

@ElektraKid83 It is all that. It would be nice if it had even some small relation to what is happening in the film, but I suppose actual relevance would be to pedestrian for Phillip Glass.

[fhoiguhfiugshd]

which dvd releases of the movie contain the philip glass soundtrack?

[directorman0471]

i know at least the Universal Legacy Series 75th Anniversary has the movie with and without the Glass scoring

[QueenOfTheKelpies]

Reflects the atmosphere of the book perfectly and merges in nicely with the film.

[Nemesis7293]

@QueenOfTheKelpies I can only imagine that you mean "merges in nicely with the film" as "plays independently and repetitively on the soundtrack with absolutely zero relation to the action onscreen".

[johnowenD]

philip glass also made the music for hamburger hill

[tommygunatxta]

really?

[emoviebuff87]

i have the video and dvd version of the newly scored version of Dracula!!!

[sicklesickle]

Philip Glass is a master of all that he touches. Whether it is Dracula, The Truman Show, Icct Hedral w/aphex twin, or anything...

[DerrickthePinecone]

I agree. I especially loved the music he did for "Koyaanisqatsi."

[LoyalPadme]

I'm doing a report Glass for my Music class, I'm completely entranced by the music and can't wait to learn more about him :)

PS: "The Crypt" is my favorite cue from this film...thanks so much for posting it!

[Ihatesev]

Could you put more of this soundtrack up? It is so difficult to come by and so wonderful.

[JazzJohannes]

Thats the same soundtrack of the movie THE ILLUSIONIST, and Philip Glass also was the composer of that one.

[oaueo]

Not quite...the man admittedly writes somewhat formulaically, and his harmonic language hasn't changed much since he broke from Steve Reich in the late 60s, but the melodic themes from the two films are very different.

[StefPhoenixOoORising]

Like I've always said. Despite the film being better without the soundtrack, some of Glass' music manages to capture the essence of Bela's Dracula. The thrill, the charm, and the underlying sex theme in the whole movie.

[kokoandco]

yessssss

[plastique45]

"PULL THE VIOLIN'S STRINGS!"

[ethern3l]

I've been looking for that soundtrack for 4 years!!!

Thanks a lot!!