Universal considers Dracula as its crown in its archive, and it’s easy to understand why. This is a film that pushed boundaries of what audiences would consider acceptable (a lot of horror is actual off the screen, leading audiences to imagine the horror rather than watch it). It pushed the company’s finances to the brink and created a whole new subgenre in the process.
Although Carl Laemmle Jr oversaw Stoker’s story cut to the bare bones. Reworking the play into…