Gawd, MB.  It looks as if the "restoration" is way too dark.  Hope that's just a fluke of this particular shot.

I saw the "restored" Horror of Dracula in the Brattle Theatre last year, or was it 2014... The "Blu Ray" was used for the screening, and the thing was so dark, you couldn't see what was going on for at least one third of the film.  A lot of it also looked bluish.  Somebody online said this was because audiences now expect a "horror film" to be dark and vaguely blue.

We live in a degraded age.

G.

I personally have felt every time I've watched the film that Angelique was a Witch--or certainly had magical powers.  Nothing in the movie makes any sense unless this was so.

I think sometimes people think the narrative points to her having been wrongly accused of witchcraft and I'm not sure where they're getting that.

Of course if the seance scene had been included in the theatre edit, it might have helped clarify the plot. 

G.

youtube only charges for certain licensed content.

G.

btw, in the new book FOLK HORROR REVIVAL: FIELD STUDIES edited by Andy Paciorek, there's an amusing article by Tina Rath, an authority on the scholarly study of vampire lore (particularly in fiction, films, video games etc.).  It's called "All you ever knew about vampires is wrong:  a transcript of a Fortean Meeting talk."  She spends several pages discussing the mythic powers of silver over vampires and explores various possibilities about how this notion came about.  It's a fun read.

G.

I wish the Gregory scene had been included.  But it was entirely about character development so of course, it had to go.

G.

I've never heard of vampires being allergic to silver.  There's been debate about when the idea that a vampire could be killed by a silver bullet came into media vampire lore.  No basis for it any of the European folklore, if I recall correctly.

It's almost not worth bothering trying to make sense of that movie because it was so heavily cut by studio mandate that a lot of it, especially once BarnaDepp returns to the street, is just plain incoherent.  At least it was to me the one time I watched it.

I would think of it as punishment being made to watch the thing again.  The Roger in the cloakroom scene was one of many that made no sense at all.

G.

Jason Shaw seems to have been a very talented young man.

G.

He's so gorgeous.

G.