Horror of Dracula: A film review
Friday, October 21, 2011 | Doug Ferguson 
- 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.