Universal Monsters - The Dracula Legacy Movie Review

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Okay, time to talk about the actual MOVIES in the Legacy Collection. How ARE all those gajillions of sequels in comparison to the originals? Let's find out...

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Entertainment

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• dvd
• collection
• review
• universal
• monsters
• dracula
• daughter
• son
• bela
• lugosi
• lon
• chaney
• gloria
• holden

[Venefica82]

Actually the 1931 Dracula movie is based more on the Dracula theater play which was rather popular at the time. There are some notable differences between the play and the book, but since the play was popular and it is more easy to convert a play into a film than a book, that was used as a screenplay for the movie. The Dracula movie which matches the book most closely is the 1992 Coppola version.

[Zaranyzerak]

@Venefica82 Yeah, I realize my facts were a bit rusty on that point...I probably should have re-watched the documentary on the set before the review. Thanks for the clarification! The 1992 version was amazing visually, though I felt the cast was very hit and miss (with the obvious exceptions of Oldman and Hopkins, of course, who seldom disappoint).

[CrackaBobby]

Why dont you have The Mummy - The Legacy Collection, Invisible Man - The Legacy Collection and Creature from the Black Lagoon - The Legacy Collection?

[Zaranyzerak]

I do, I have all 6. Watch the DVD review, I mention them all and why I'm not reviewing them just yet. I've also shown them all before in DVD Updates.

[bheemabachus]

to CrackaBobby: He will, he will.

[Zaranyzerak]

I DO have them, just in the process of watching them so I'm not going to review them until I'm done. There's 27 movies over the course of the whole collection, and even though most of them are pretty short (barely over an hour much of the time), it still takes time to watch that many in a row...

[snakes3425]

@ppescidavid

Lugosi's career was in the gutter due to him being typecast as a Horror Villain, and his accent limited the roles he was given by Universal later in his career. By the time the other Dracula movies had come out, Karloff and Chaney were Universal's top horror stars, while Lugosi was reduced B-Movies and Name Value Cameos. He did return as Dracula in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the second and last time he'd ever played Dracula on film and his last A-List film

[ppescidavid]

Is there any reason why Legosi didn't play the Dracula in son of dracula or any other sequels?

[TheUniversalMonsters]

This is an amazing video! keep up the great work!

[loganator267]

4:50 scared me to death

[FilmC0llect0r]

Homer simpson shirt fn rocks!

[slagarcrue85]

@Zaranyzerak

In my opion lon chains best rules were as quasdimo which I had sad to say have not seen. But I did she a few  years ago the other thing he was big for. Sing once again for me are strange duet my power over you grows stronger yet the phatom of the opera is there inside yor mind. Poor wretched creature of darkness what kind of life have you known you are not alone. I love the remake with gerald butler

[TenderTrap86]

I think you're right about Chaney playing the "everyman". He got an Oscar nomination, I believe, playing Lenny in "Of Mice And Men", only a few years prior to The Wolfman.

While people are talking about Dracula '92, I'd just like to say that it's one of my favorite movies. To me, nothing beats the special effects of the 90's. It was a time when most special effects were still optical illusions, instead of CGI. Those older effects, I feel, age a lot better over time and have a peculiar charm.

[Venefica82]

@Zaranyzerak I agree about the 1992 version. It is a stunning movie but not all the actors seam to fit, they do a good job but they do not seam to fit somehow. But Oldman and Hopkins were great. And the visuals and the costumes are just wonderful. I remember how I begged my mother to let me see that movie. I was ten when the 1992 Dracula came out and it is one of my favorite movies, though it is not without it's flaws.