Double Feature: New 35mm Print for Universal’s Centennial! DRACULA, 1931, HORROR OF DRACULA, 1958, Discussion between films and comic book signing . October 29, 2012

Monday, October 29 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: New 35mm Print for Universal’s Centennial! DRACULA, 1931, Universal, 75 min. Director Tod Browning (FREAKS) and actor Bela Lugosi established the Transylvanian count as one of the archetypal movie vampires and a monster icon for Universal Studios’ golden era of classic horror films. This adaptation of Hamilton Deane’s then-popular stage play of Bram Stoker’s novel is quite different from Murnau’s silent NOSFERATU, and from later works produced by Hammer Studios from the 1950s through 1970s and Francis Ford Coppola in 1990. Real estate agent Renfield (played by everyone’s favorite madman Dwight Frye) goes insane after visiting Dracula at his Transylvanian castle and is thereafter confined to a London asylum - though he does the count’s bidding as a hypnotized slave when Dracula comes to Britain and moves into deserted Carfax Abbey. David Manners is Jonathan Harker and Helen Chandler is his lady love, whom Dracula wants to make his bride. Edward Van Sloan, a fixture in early Universal horrors, is Professor Van Helsing. [35mm]
HORROR OF DRACULA, 1958, Warner Bros., 82 min. From Christopher Lee’s revelatory, broodingly romantic performance as Dracula to Terence Fisher’s masterful direction, this is one of Hammer’s most enduring masterpieces! [35mm] Discussion between films with publisher and artist Kerry Gammill, editor and screenwriter Sam F. Park, writer Robert Tinnell and comic book and Hollywood conceptual artist Henry Mayo, with more special guests to be announced. Comic book signing of the Monsterverse graphic novel Flesh And Blood: Book One and Bela Lugosi’s Tales From the Grave in the Aero lobby at 6:30 PM! Special ticket pricing: $5 for seniors!

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