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Son of Dracula is a 1943 American horror film directed by Robert Siodmak with a screenplay based on an original story by his brother Curt Siodmak. The film stars Lon Chaney Jr., Louise Allbritton, Robert Paige, Evelyn Ankers, and Frank Craven. The film is set in the United States, where Count Alucard (Chaney Jr.) has just taken up residence.
With Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Craven. When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.
Peppered with elements of film noir from director Robert Siodmak, Son of Dracula offers plenty of eerie chills, plot twists, and groundbreaking special effects for its time, including the first ever on-screen transformation of a bat into a vampire.
Synopsis. Kay Caldwell [Louise Allbritton] and Frank Stanley [Robert Paige] have always been in love, even since they were children. But when Kay returns from traveling in Hungary, she seems changed. First, she begins to express a morbid curiosity with the supernatural.
Son of Dracula is a 1943 horror film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Count Alucard (Dracula spelled backward) and Louise Allbritton as the woman who becomes his bride. Son of Dracula 1943 was the first Universal horror film to be set in contemporary times, breaking away from the classic gothic settings of its predecessors.
Son of Dracula 1943 1h 18m Horror List 60% 15 Reviews Tomatometer 33% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score Count Alucard (Lon Chaney) comes out of a lake in his coffin and makes a Southern belle...
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In the shadowed year of 1943, a spine-chilling tale unfolded under the skilled direction of Robert Siodmak — Son of Dracula, a macabre symphony in the key of horror with some effects including a pond, an old shack, some lights and smoke, and some large suitcases which are constantly mysterious. Penned from the eerie quill of Curt Siodmak ...
