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Recap:

Basically, this is the battle of Grand Moff Tarkin versus Count Dooku. Spoiler: the one with the cooler Star Wars movie wins.


Okay, let me try again. This is a Dracula movie, this time Harker is a vampire hunter who tries to kill Dracula but fails, but he kills the bride of Dracula, so Dracula bites him and then goes for Lucy.

Also, this is quite an international movie: the innkeeper has a very blonde (and maybe Swedish?) maid called Inga, and the country where van Helsing resides cannot be England which shares borders only with Scotland and Wales, because in this movie they cross the border with a carriage, and along the border you see on the buildings’ walls German words like Zollamtshaus and Friederickstrasse.

All in all this is a priceless historical document. It’s such a pleasure to see skilled actors working for a skilled director, the sets are not exactly big budget but they look so much better than the nobudget stuff that is shot on location nowadays. I guess that there’s pretty much blood for a 50s movie, and I guess that the faces Lucy and Mina make when they expect Dracula may have been quite suggestive back then. Yet I must say that in my personal opinion the movie today is not as overwhelming as it may once have been. But it’s still great to watch anyway.

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