But despite most strongly praising Lugosi's take on Dracula, Christopher Lee was the chief defector to popular opinion. "Anyhow, about the Lugosi Dracula. I was so disappointed," Lee told Leonard Wolf ...

Social taboos, censorship concerns, and technical constraints limited the use of blood in less bawdy theaters—and in most ...

In fact, Badham's effort beat Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the punch as the first mainstream adaptation to catapult the tale's sensual implications into an explicit Gothic romance ...