Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Steineded How sad is this?

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

mike48128 She prefers women victims, but kills at least one man anyway. So let me get this straight: She has daintier, smaller incisors as a female vampire? Also please explain this to me: How does a vampire control whether their blood donor joins the Undead or just outright dies? Let's hope it doesn't involve sexual favors, as yes, someone did actually make a bad "sequel" called "Dracula's Dog". (Yikes!) Somewhat humorous with touches of bumbling cops, unbelieving detectives, and ditzy blondes. Not as stagy as the original "Dracula" and the action somewhat resembles a typical "Universal" Monster Classic. The brooding, cloudy, artificial Universal sky. The Transylvanian villagers all speak English and appear clueless yet are 2 pages ahead of the script! The evil "protagonist" could have been anything from Jack the Ripper to the Wolfman as the basic story goes. Especially the poor reluctant ghoul that finally decides that it's good to be the monster, as she gets to choose her 1000-year-prom date. No bloodiness to speak of and nobody turned into a skeleton at the end. That's disappointing! Be sure to see "The Son of Dracula" as it is considered (by some) to be the 3rd part of the Original Dracula "Trilogy". I don't agree.

skybrick736 Give props to Lambert Hillyer and Garrett Fort for following up from the first Dracula with a well-planned sequel that takes place pretty much directly after the original. They pulled it off too only bringing back one central actor, Edward Von Sloan, who didn't exactly have the biggest role. The new stars include Otto Kruger, who was a strong lead and also Gloria Holden are new villain. The writing for Holden's character, Countess Zeleska aka Dracula's Daughter, was more sympathetic than ominous, which in my mind wasn't really the right portrayal to make. A darker female vixen would have been an extremely effective move and added a bit of an excitement factor that the film was missing.Another aspect of the film which I thought might have been played out a bit more was a backstory about the daughter and Dracula's relationship. Not having that connection is kind of a missing element of the story-line but not having one at all is probably better than if it was overdone. Dr. Garth himself was a well-developed witty character and interesting protagonist, the type we rarely see, which has doubts about the adversary. Dracula's Daughter has its pros and cons just like any other film but from as a classical horror film perspective it's still a viable watch.

Bonehead-XL "Dracula's Daughter" is an endlessly intriguing film. It is, in many ways, very ahead of its time. The film gets a lot of notice for being the very first lesbian vampire on-screen. It also has got to be one of the earliest sympathetic vampires. Countess Zaleska is the main character of the film. She wants nothing to do with her father's legacy and instead longs to live a normal life. However, she is uncontrollably driven by her nature to feed on the blood of the living. The entire movie is driven by her struggling with two conflicting desires. The fate of the film lies on whether she chooses to be good or evil. This is thoroughly modern stuff, the kind of thing modern horror novels are built on.The extremely good cast helps. Gloria Holden has a captivating face, with wide expressive eyes. Her broad voice conveys the proper amount of aristocratic lineage. Her performance is surprisingly subtle. I suspect with an actress of her type, it would have been very easy to go over-the-top so she wisely plays it in the opposite direction. Her performance informs that entire film, which is generally a low-key, character-oriented affair.If Countess Zaleska is struggling with her nature, Irving Pichel's Sandor is strictly Mephistophelian figure. Perhaps conceived as a Renfield-like figure, Sandor instead constantly beckons Zaleska to the dark side. In the last reel, we discover this is strictly because he was promise the gift of eternal life in return for being the vampire's helper. When she goes back on the deal, he doesn't take it well.The movie is primarily a character study but, good as the film is, it still has to find time for the genre conventions of the era. Otto Kruger plays the movie's leading man, Jeffrey Garth, a psychologist who is positioned at the center of the Countess' moral battle. It's not a bad performance, Garth is actually fairly charming, but the love and obsession the vampire develops with him never really carries. The slap-slap-kiss-kiss back-and-forth Garth has with his secretary, played by Marguerite Churchill, occupies way too much of the film's time. The two sell the slap-slap part but not so much the kiss part. The two people seem to genuinely hate each other.The movie functions as a horror film too. The early scene of Holden cremating her father's corpse and exorcising the demons inside continues the first film's tradition of English fog and black-and-white atmosphere. The most famous moment in the movie, where a young woman is brought off of the streets to model for the bisexual vampire, slowly becoming aware of the danger she is in, draws tension out exceedingly well. When the vampire finally strikes, the camera cuts from a woman's screaming face to an African tribal mask hanging on the wall."Dracula's Daughter" would actually be a good candidate for a remake. A new version of the film could focus squarely on the Countess' struggle with her own nature, excising all the unnecessary comic relief and romantic subplots. The original is a surprisingly deep, underrated part of the Universal Monsters canon.

Claudio Carvalho In London, two policemen find the body of a man, Renfield, with neck broken and Dracula with a stake through his heart. They arrest Prof. Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) that tells that he did it and take him to the Scotland Yard. The inspector Sir Basil Humphrey (Gilbert Emery) asks Von Helsing who might defend him and the professor asks for the psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger). Meanwhile, the mysterious Countess Marya Zeleska (Gloria Holden), who is Dracula's daughter, compels the policeman that is in charge to take care of the bodies and takes Dracula's body with her to bury him with her assistant Sandor (Irving Pichel) before dawn, expecting to be released from the family's curse. In Edinburgh, Jeffrey is hunting with friends and his assistant Janet Blake (Marguerite Churchill) comes to tell him that he has an appointment with the Scotland Yard to help his friend Von Helsing. When Von Helsing tells him about Dracula, Jeffrey believes that he is obsessed with the vampire and promises to help him. During the night, he goes to a party where he meets the Hungarian Countess and he tells his theories about the vampire blood thirsty that he believes is an obsession. Now, Countess Zeleska believes that Jeffrey can heal her and release her from her blood thirsty and she wants to bring him to her castle to spend the eternal life with her in Transylvania."Dracula's Daughter" is a great vampire movie, with the dramatic story of a vampire woman that wishes to be free from the curse of her father, Dracula. The plot is naive and funny, and the relationship between the annoying Jeffrey and the witty Janet is amusing. This is one of the best movies of Universal Studios in this genre. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Filha de Drácula" ("The Dracula's Daughter")