Review of Dracula's Daughter (1936) by Michael H — 08 Jan 2015

This movie is a sequel to the Bela Lugosi Dracula movie. The movie actually starts at the end of the Dracula movie with two British Policemen discovering the bodies of Dracula and Renfield. Professor Von Helsing comes forward and confesses to driving a stake through Dracula's heart.

After the bodies are taken to the rural police station a woman appears claiming to be Dracula's daughter. They never explain how Dracula had a daughter. After she steals the body of Dracula she has it burned and then goes to London to seek a cure for being a vampire.

This movie is not near as good as the original Dracula movie. It came with the box set of DVD's that contained four Dracula movies. The movie was made 5 years after the original movie. In the 1930's there was no Television and Hollywood could put out sequels to popular movies and people would go see them.

This wasn't a cheap movie but it was all shot in a movie studio and used no special effects. Today a sequel has to have a big budget with lots of special effects or no one will go see it.