Nosferatu: A film review

 - Vancouver, British Columbia - While I'm not 100% sure that Nosferatu is the first vampire movie ever made, it certainly is the most famous, long lasting vampire film from the silent era. It predates the most famous version of Dracula by 9 years, and is considered still by many to be the best vampire movie ever made. I don't know if I would agree with that statement, but I can certainly understand the appeal and can appreciate all that the film paved the way for. I cannot deny that in many ways, this film is still very effective today.

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Horror of Dracula: A film review

 - Vancouver, British Columbia - While it can be argued that the most iconic portrayal of Count Dracula is Bella Lugosi's 1931 performance, it was Christopher Lee who played Dracula the most amount of times. In the 1950s, a British production company called Hammer Films came to remake many of the classic horror films which had a long run in the 1930s and 1940s. They started in 1957 with The Curse of Frankenstein, which was a box office success, so they sought to not only make a sequel, but capitalize on other popular monsters that served Universal Pictures so well a couple of decades before. Their logical choice of course was Count Dracula. The new version was called Dracula in its native Britain, but to avoid confusion with the Universal version, they called it Horror of Dracula in North America.

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