09/30/2025
Boulder Cinephiles- "Spanish Dracula" is screening ONE NIGHT ONLY this Friday at the Dairy Arts Center for Friday Night Weird with a special introduction by co-director of the Reel Horrors Film Fest and co-host of the Do You Like Scary Movies - Horror Podcast Bryan Bonner!
Have you ever heard of "Spanish Dracula"?
Universal, ever frugal and opportunistic, shot a Spanish-language Drácula (1931) for the international market on the exact same sets as Browning’s version that shot during the day...allowing for the Spanish version to take over the set and shoot at night with an entirely different cast and crew.
What might have started as a cheap gesture to foreign markets instead produced one of horror’s strangest and most brilliant miracles. While Browning’s film is embalmed by static staging and Lugosi’s singular presence, George Melford’s nocturnal twin luxuriates in camera movement, atmosphere, and a far more palpable eroticism.
Lupita Tovar’s luminous Eva all but obliterates Helen Chandler’s wan Mina, and the camera slithers with a fluidity that makes the English version feel like stage leftovers. Horror history usually crowns the “original,” but here the shadow outshines the substance.
DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!
https://thedairy.org/event/dracula-1931-spanish-version/
https://youtu.be/g-wMq3yaj0g?si=c11EDQO_ppEJYpNR
Dracula was Universal Studios' smash hit success from 1931, starring Bela Lugosi and directed by Tod Browning, the English-language version of the film spark...
