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| I learned this was an original poster for Dracula (1931) |
So I opened October with Dracula (1931). I typically watch this sometime during the middle of the month but was compelled to watch that opening 18 minutes of this film right at the beginning to kick things off just right. To me the first 18 minutes in Dracula '31 is Gothic Nirvana. I probably consider it one of my top three favorite scenes in the horror genre. I recall being a kid and seeing the opening of Dracula (I don't watch it now without the Philip Glass score, but this was back before it when Swan Lake was the only music that was applied to it), just wowed by it. It is like the list of shots and dialogue, the castle and how it haunts those that live remotely close to its environs, all exact a kind of dark spell over me. Can't help but want to just stand up and applaud when he does the "children of the night", "I am...", "I don't drink..." because they are just words on a page until Lugosi brings them to life as only he can. Sure Hollywood treated him like shit and took advantage of him, didn't pay him what a true star deserved to be paid, and eventually Lugosi was rendered an addict recovering as Ed Wood exploited whatever shine the poor guy had left. But can't no fucking body take Dracula away from him. Or Ygor or Vitus Werdegast, Legendre or Dr. Mirakle.
The lair of Dracula. His place, his rules.
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