Dracula's Daughter

1936

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 64% · 25 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 7928 7.9K

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Plot summary

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.


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September 21, 2018 at 07:43 PM

Top cast

Edward Van Sloan as Professor Von Helsing
Nan Grey as Lili
Otto Kruger as Jeffrey Garth
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10

Above average sequel to a film classic

A worthy sequel to the original classic, this film is actually better than it's predecessor in some ways. The addition of music -something sadly lacking in Dracula - helps to enliven things quite a bit, meaning that the film is not quite as dated as the original was. The opening scenes are excellent. I love it when films directly continue on from the previous instalment (the Hammer Dracula series did this). Film highlights include the moment where Bela Lugosi's rubber corpse is burnt on a huge fire in a graveyard! Just the kind of classic image we've come to expect from these Universal horror flicks.

After this excellent opening the film changes track and becomes the usual drawing-room horror that we're used to seeing in the 1930s. People talk, argue, and shout, and intrigue is everywhere. I found the love sub-plot between the Countess and the Doctor to be a little dull and I could have done without it. However to spice up the action there are a number of vampire attacks and the film's most memorable image, where a young girl strips for the Countess before being bitten. This sequence was pretty raunchy for its day and even lesbianism is implied, which we are more used to seeing in Hammer's Carmilla trilogy.

The actors range from being quite wooden (Otto Kruger) to rather good (Gloria Holden). However on hand are two regular horror actors who definitely add the element of fun to the film. Firstly there's Irving Pichel, playing an evil assistant (he looks devilish here) and then we have Edward Van Sloan (FRANKENSTEIN) as Van Helsing. Sloan is excellent when he's going on about vampires and the like and it's a pleasure to see him again. All in all it's a pretty good film but it sorely lacks the presence of a leading horror star (such as Lugosi). Apart from that it's atmospheric and has some great scenes to look out for. An above average sequel to a classic film.

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 7 / 10

Who is going to tie your tie?

In London, two policemen find the body of a man, Renfield, with neck broken and Dracula with a stake through his heart. They arrest Prof. Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) that tells that he did it and take him to the Scotland Yard. The inspector Sir Basil Humphrey (Gilbert Emery) asks Von Helsing who might defend him and the professor asks for the psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger). Meanwhile, the mysterious Countess Marya Zeleska (Gloria Holden), who is Dracula's daughter, compels the policeman that is in charge to take care of the bodies and takes Dracula's body with her to bury him with her assistant Sandor (Irving Pichel) before dawn, expecting to be released from the family's curse.

In Edinburgh, Jeffrey is hunting with friends and his assistant Janet Blake (Marguerite Churchill) comes to tell him that he has an appointment with the Scotland Yard to help his friend Von Helsing. When Von Helsing tells him about Dracula, Jeffrey believes that he is obsessed with the vampire and promises to help him. During the night, he goes to a party where he meets the Hungarian Countess and he tells his theories about the vampire blood thirsty that he believes is an obsession. Now, Countess Zeleska believes that Jeffrey can heal her and release her from her blood thirsty and she wants to bring him to her castle to spend the eternal life with her in Transylvania.

"Dracula's Daughter" is a great vampire movie, with the dramatic story of a vampire woman that wishes to be free from the curse of her father, Dracula. The plot is naive and funny, and the relationship between the annoying Jeffrey and the witty Janet is amusing. This is one of the best movies of Universal Studios in this genre. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Filha de Drácula" ("The Dracula's Daughter")

Reviewed by bkoganbing 6 / 10

The Count's bloody offspring

In a recent biography of Bela Lugosi one of the things I learned was that it was for lack of a decent property that Lugosi never repeated his Count Dracula role. And there was money involved. But Universal which had spawned at least one successful Frankenstein sequel at this point caved into public demand, sort of for a Dracula sequel.

I guess the Laemmle family figured that no one could where Lugosi's cape with authority so it was decided that Dracula would have a daughter. Cast as said daughter in her second feature film is British actress Gloria Holden.

Holden does her best and she will really creep you out as the sanguinary daughter of the legendary Transylvanian Count. But the whole story is rather clumsily connected with the first film. A couple of London Bobbies find Edward Van Sloan with a pair of dead bodies, Renfield with a broken neck and the Count himself with a stake in his heart. Van Sloan as Van Helsing and the only one to repeat his role from the first film, matter of factly confesses he did the deed at least to Dracula's corpse. The Bobbies take him in of course, but instead of asking for an attorney, Van Sloan consults psychiatrist Otto Kruger.

At the same time Gloria Holden claims the Count's body and has him cremated so that his influence might be broken. But she's gotten the sanguinary habit and it's hard to break even with consulting Dr. Kruger.

At some point Holden and her Renfield Irving Pichel decide to go with the flow and accept her undead state. But she kind of likes Kruger and to insure he cooperates she takes his girlfriend Marguerite Chapman as an undead hostage so to speak.

It all ends where the first film began in Count Dracula's Transylvanian castle. How it ends? All I'll say is that Irving Pichel gets some payback from the Dracula clan for poor Renfield in the first film.

The clumsy connection and the lack of Lugosi renders Dracula's Daughter an inferior product to the real deal.

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