Dracula's Daughter

Classic movie. Will purchase more old movies.

We really enjoyed this- the costumes, the banter, the plot- really well done! Holds up this many years later!

Stunning Gloria Holden gives the viewer an enhanced, and rather original, glance at the Dracula legend, in this take on the "vampire seeks help from psychiatrist" approach which seems an eerie, but still intriguing, spoof of both folklore and science.There are many plot deficiencies, most notably a lack of continuity, and the main character's motivation seems to change from one scene to another. The psychiatrist's clearly sincere desire first to cure the vampire, later to eliminate her evil presence, certainly seems ambitious in the first part, considering that therapy for those dead for centuries is uncharted territory. Characters are individually interesting but do not blend well - the relationship between any of them is never well defined.Comic relief is rich in the bumbling cockney police officers, and the elegance Dracula's daughter displays often rather breathtaking. Whatever the puzzlement in plot and characterisation, the individual characters are classic.Eerie and impelling without being gruesome, this film should be welcome on the shelf of any Universal monster flick fans collection.

The sequel to Dracula has so many plot holes and unexplained circumstances that it can hardly be considered a classic. However, what it lacks in substance it makes up with in charm. All the Universal horror films of the '30s were good in their own way, even the not so great b-grade films like this.The plot involved Van Helsing being picked up by police directly after putting a stake through Dracula's heart (though no explainations about Johnathan or Mina are given). He is accused of murder (but not imprisoned) and seeks out a psychiatrist to defend him rather than an attorney. Meanwhile Dracula's daughter shows up and ceremonially burns Dracula's body to break the spell of "the Draculas" to no avail. Lesbian overtones abound as Dracula's daughter seduces and bites young girls. Eventually ending back in Transillvania. I'm a huge fan of Universal horror. I would recomend the all time classics (Bride Of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Raven, Creature From The Black Lagoon, etc) first. This is a much lesser movie. The censors, constant rewrites, and a smaller budget prevented it from being anything more. Keeping this in mind, its still not bad and worth seeing. Just don't expect it to be half as good as good as Dracula.

This was one incredible movie!! Did you know that Bella Lagosi was supposed to do a cameo in this movie? Great creepy throughout the film.. One of my favorites!

I love the old classics and this film might be overlooked but fits in nicely for those who enjoyed the original Dracula with Bela lugosi!

Gloria Holden comes across very well as a vampire in this follow up to Dracula with Bela Lugosi.The story is good, and the cast is quite capable in carrying the story.

Dracula's Daughter I have seen this video before, of course, but I wanted a copy of my own.I like this video because it starts off where "Dracula" ends, except Dr. Von Helsing is arrested for murder. Then the bodies start to disappear.Gloria Holden plays a very elegant, sophisticated vampire as Dracula's Daughter.This video is packed with mystery, humor and adventure.I am glad I now have a copy of my own in my collection.

Although usually overshadowed by Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee's portrayal of the Countess Marya Zaleska's famous "father", "Dracula's Daughter" is a trailblazer in its day, one that decades later would inspire a more "humanistic" portrayal of the vampire in not just the TV series "Dark Shadows" but also Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles( Rice has been quoted as saying of this 1936 film which she saw as a child- "It's beautiful and delicate- more than anything else I loved the way Dracula's daughter was made to be a troubled creature who didn't want to kill but was driven to it!"- even to the extent of naming one of the vampire bars in her novels "Dracula's Daughter" with posters and photos of Ms. Holden) but also films like "My Best Friend Is A Vampire" "The Little Vampire" "Twilight" and True Blood". I should admit my bias here: I sympathize with Zaleska's desire to be "free of the curse of the Draculas" because I know all too well that it is like to be cursed by a condition that can not be cured or changed- I am a type 2 diabetic). Much has been written about the scene in which the Countess(an accomplished artist- much like myself although she was probably better than I'll EVER be) lures a young(and possibly suicidal) streetwalker named Lili (Nan Gray) to her studio to model for her and after stripping off, attacks her( the cruel irony is that Zaleska may NOT have intended to kill her- like Rice's Louis she may only have "intended a little sip" of the girl's blood but in the heat of the moment she took too much, ultimately causing Lili's death; later she seems almost remorseful over it- asuming a vampire can genuinely know remorse and contrition) due to the obviously lesbian overtones, but as lesbianism/female bisexuality never has attracted the same explicit condemnation that male homosexuality did- even in the 1930s, the censors( who were hardly the brightest and most perceptive individuals around) as is the closing scene where suggestively hovers over the captive Janet Blake(Marguerite Churchill-presumably no relative to "dear old Winnie") as if to kiss her. British born(although she lived and died most of her life in America- where she was taken as a child by her English father and German born mother- which may account for her decidedly outre looks; a site I visited referred to her dark brown hair, brown eyes and olive complexion) Gloria Holden is probably the ideal actress to be cast as Countess Zaleska(ironically because she didn;t much like horror films and was afraid of being typecast- as Bela Lugosi)and lends the film gravitas as a troubled, tortured and ultimately doomed woman cursed by her own heritage(irony yet again, in 1991 Holden despite being an accomplished cyclist would die in much the same way as her character would- by a fatal injury to her heart- albeit a heart attack rather than have an arrow pierce her bosom as the Countess did)."The woman is beautiful" a policeman says to Von Helsing as they survey her dead body "She was beautiful when she died- a hundred years ago!" he replies.( Since Dracula has been dead for five hundred years, it is unclear how he could have fathered her a hundred or so years ago)

A quickie sequel to Tod Browning's 1931 version of Dracula, Lambert Hillyer's Dracula's Daughter (1936) is an odd movie, weird enough to the hold the attention the first time you watch it, though it probably wouldn't stand up to repeated viewings.This sequel starts at the exact point the earlier film ended, with Dr. Van Helsing (here re-christened `Von Helsing' for some reason, and again played by Edward Van Sloan) being arrested for the murder of Count Dracula (!) by the local police (and though the Hollywood movies of the period were hardly known for faithfully replicating British dialects and geography, I feel it is worth pointing out that residents of Whitby, North Yorkshire, generally don't have Cockney accents). Whilst `Von' awaits trial, Dracula's body is stolen by his vampiric daughter (Gloria Holden), who ritually burns it in an attempt to free herself of blood-lust. When this fails to have any effect, she consults a psychiatrist (Otto Kruger), who hopes that he can treat her instead; however, the psychiatrist is also contacted by the imprisoned vampire hunter, who wants his help to persuade Scotland Yard that he isn't barking mad...The little-known Holden is a revelation in this cheap, short B-movie, which, unusually for a film of the period, treats vampirism as a curable medical condition rather than a supernatural `curse', and contains themes of lesbianism that must have raised a few eyebrows back in 1936 (Holden's wonderful scene with artist's model Nan Grey is the highlight of the film). But Kruger is a smug, uninterested lead (he's Leslie Howard without the warmth and wit), Van Sloan again makes for a dull vampire hunter, and the rouged Irving Pichel looks absolutely ridiculous as Holden's black-hearted manservant. Though featuring less static action than the 1931 original (and ending with a chase back to where the first film began, Dracula's castle in Transylvania), this is still a rather slow-moving, talky movie, blighted by lots of atrocious comic relief, and one that really endures only as a curiosity piece.

'Dracula's Daughter' is a sequel to Bela Lugosi's 'Dracula'. Edward van Sloan appears again as Van Helsing who is unfortunately under arrest for staking Dracula and having some difficulty in persuading the police that by staking a vampire he is not subject to the charge of murder. Dracula's body disappears having been removed by his daughter Countess Marya Zaleska ( Gloria Holden)who then burns his body hoping to remove her curse of being a vampire. It is to no avail and she continues to kill. Her one hope is Doctor Jeffrey Garth an eminent psychologist whom she feels might save her but it is not to be. Gloria Holden plays her as a darkly moody character imbued with a lonely sense of hopelessness looking for a cure but unable to find one. Sandor her servant effectively played by Irving Pichel lurks and panders to her needs in order that she will turn him into a vampire. Beautifully shot in black and white with a good print this film is unusual and whilst it deserves to be seen more will probably only find favour with completists who enjoy the old Universal horror films.

I watch old horror movies more for interest than enjoyment and escapism, but this one fulfilled all three requirements...It is rather well done. Ole' Red Eyes himself doesn't feature - only his daughter, as the title suggests, but it has a good atmosphere, and carries on from the original Dracula story with a sort of "What if this had really happened" premise, which I found rather intriguing.Good stuff - if you are into old horror movies, this is a cut above the rest in my opinion!

A good film. Gloria Holden especially wanting help. In London, Chelsea her room has strange goings on. Hynotised, her victims lives are at stake, which she brings to them. One his on her way to Transilvania. hunted by a Scotland Yard dectective, Doctor, also as well as another inspector,.How can that be!