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Dracula: Complete Legacy Collection includes all 6 films from the original legacy including the frightening classic starring Bela Lugosi and the timeless films that followed.
Dracula
Although there have been numerous screen versions of Bram Stoker's classic tale, none is more enduring than the 1931 original. The ominous portrayal of Count Dracula by Bela Lugosi, combined with horror specialist director Tod Browning, help to create the film's eerie mood. Dracula remains a masterpiece not only of the genre, but for all time.
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Dracula's Daughter
This popular horror classic picks up where Dracula left off. Dr. Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), thinking he has rid London of all vampires, is instead arrested for murder. Just when Von Helsing’s fate seems sealed, the bodies suddenly disappear. Soon several people are found mysteriously killed, their bodies drained of all blood. Meanwhile, beautiful and mysterious Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden) appears in London. The troubled woman seeks the understanding Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger), Von Helsing’s psychiatrist, for consultation. A mysterious sequence of events surrounding a disoriented young girl (Nan Grey) leads Von Helsing and Garth to deduce the countess must be a vampire. They set off to Transylvania after the elusive countess to rescue Garth’s beautiful fiancée (Marguerite Churchill) in this engrossing thriller.
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Son of Dracula
The greatest movie vampire of all time renews his reign of terror in this atmospheric chiller from the 1940's. Lon Chaney, Jr. known for his portrayals of the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster, dons a black cape as Count Alucard (that's Dracula spelled backwards), the bloodthirsty son of the famous Transylvanian vampire. When Katherine (Louise Allbritton), a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites the Count to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors. Despite the heroic efforts of Robert Paige, her fiancé, Katherine becomes a disciple of the evil Count. Together they both set out to satisfy their unquenchable thirst for human blood with nocturnal killings in director Robert Siodmak's excursion into the horror genre.
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House of Frankenstein
Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr. star in House of Frankenstein, the classic horror thriller about revenge and madness. A deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann (Karloff), escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors. Niemann pulls the stake out of a skeleton, reviving the infamous Count Dracula (John Carradine) and commands him to kill the man responsible for his imprisonment. Journeying to the ruins of Frankenstein’s infamous laboratory, Niemann finds the frozen forms of the Frankenstein Monster (Glenn Strange) and the Wolf Man (Chaney) buried in an underground cavern. Niemann revives both creatures seeking revenge on those who testified against his macabre experiments with corpses but his plans backfire leading to a thrilling culmination.
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House of Dracula
They're all here – The Wolf Man, Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, angry villagers and even a hunchback assistant in the House of Dracula! Horror veterans Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man and John Carradine as Dracula arrive at the laboratory of Dr. Edelman (Onslow Stevens) to beg for a cure to relieve them of their killing instincts. However, while the Wolf Man is sincere, Dracula is really just scheming to get close to the good doctor’s luscious nurse (Martha O'Driscoll) whom he intends to seduce into becoming one of his "brides of darkness." The mayhem and madness reach a feverish pitch when the doctor discovers the body of Frankenstein's Monster and begins to bring it back to life. All of this is more than the nearby villagers can stand as they become determined to stop the lunacy that threatens the safety of their families and their town.
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Abbott and Costello, as railroad baggage clerks, receive a strange shipment - the last remains of Dracula and Frankenstein's monster. But this deadly duo is still very much alive. So when the shipment arrives at the House of Horrors, the Monsters are not in their crates but have disappeared to a secret hideaway island. Blamed for the disappearance, Abbott and Costello follow their trail to the island, where not only do they meet up with Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and the Monster (Glenn Strange), but a Mad Scientist (Charles Bradstreet) who wants to switch Costello's brain with that of the Monster. With everyone chasing each other, the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.) shows up to scare them all. In the end everything works out: Costello finds romance and the Monsters find their final resting places...or do they?
© 1948 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.