Review of Dracula (1958) by Evan W — 23 Jan 2008
Just called DRACULA in civilized nations, this is the start of Christopher Lee's character-redefining run playing The Count. His Dracula is almost exclusively a physical creature - he has about five lines in this film, the most dialogue he delivers in the whole franchise, I think.
Brooding and elegant and menacing, there is something saturnine and inhumane about Lee's Dracula. He gazes at people in a way that suggests they are nothing more than indistinct twittering objects briefly intruding upon a world that is his alone.
Lee's Dracula is going to do what he likes to you, and he doesn't care what you think about it. This approach is only amplified in subsequent films, which develop Dracula as a handsome monster propelled entirely by boiling evil sex-rage.
He'll never be bettered.
This review of Dracula (1958) was written by Evan W on 23 Jan 2008.
Dracula has generally received positive reviews.
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