Dracula - usually better known under its American retitling, The Horror of Dracula - is the cornerstone of the Hammer Films legend. Although The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) the year before was beginning of Hammer's success, Dracula was the...read the complete Dracula (1958) review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Like the often critically despised films of The Archers and Gainsborough melodrama, Horror of Dracula offered contemporary viewers the taboo cinematic elements of spectacle and excess that offended establishment definitions of the proper "realist" nature ...read the complete Dracula (1958) review at Senses of Cinema (Tony Williams)