Dracula (Philip Glass Special Edition)

The Bela Lugosi classic horror from Universal refreshed with a nail-biting score from Philip Glass.

  • Director

    Tod Browning

  • With

    Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler

  • USA 1931. 74min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

The vampire Count Dracula relocates from Transylvania to England, hoping to nourish himself on the blood of unsuspecting victims. Bela Lugosi’s seminal performance as Count Dracula was an early – but not the first – entry in Universal Studio’s remarkably successful monster series of the 1930s. Glass’s score, performed by long-term collaborators the Kronos Quartet, tweaks out the tale’s emotional undercurrents, its romance and elements of the sublime, while never resorting to the trappings of a conventional horror score.