Dracula (1931)

Sometimes you’ve gotta go back to the original spooky source. Seeing Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat made me realise I’d never seen his portrayal of Dracula (1931), the very role that made him a star and a horror icon. The performance, and Lugosi’s Hungarian accent, looms so large over pop culture, everything from Sesame […]

The Black Cat (1934)

“It is better to be frightened… than to be crushed.” So says Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat (1934) after saving a woman from falling luggage – he plays the role of Dr. Vitus Werdegast, a Hungarian psychatrist returning to his homeland after spending more than a decade in a Siberian prison camp during WWI. […]