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Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

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.

Five years after Universal launched a Bela Lugosi inspired Dracula upon the film loving world, the sequel arrived - only not with Lugosi's Count Dracula in it. Pic picks up at the end of the 31 film and finds Von Helsing (yes Von, not Van) under arrest for the slaying of the toothy vampire. Enter Contessa Marya Zeleska, who sets in motion the wheels of vampiric legends and torrid passions about to be exposed.There's an ethereal low-key mood to Dracula's Daughter, exuding the sort of atmosphere that Val Lewton would hone and trademark within six years. It's a beautifully photographed movie (George Robinson), while there's some neat touches in the screenplay - such as lesbian overtones and the fact our vampire lady is very sympathetic due to her searching for a cure to her ills. However. The play is over talky and very bloodless, it's like the makers forgot to actually put some horror aspects into the piece. There's also an odd blend of humour and drama which never sits right, while the ending is abrupt and disappointing.It's a nice film, a nice production, but nice is a word that really shouldn't be on your lips given the history of the source materials. 6/10

A year after Carroll Boland introduced us to a Vampira/Elvira predecessor in "Mark of the Vampire" as Bela Lugosi's vampiress daughter, stage actress Gloria Holden took the spotlight as the unseen Lugosi's daughter in a sequel which gave her one shot at horror film fame. Borland's unspeaking spook looked like a hippie thirty years before her time, but Holden here looks as if she could have been sired by the count and "She who must be obeyed". In fact, a year after Helen Gahagan played the ageless underground queen in "She", Holden played "She who must drink blood to live". Holden's Marya is a Hungarian countess who shows up to destroy her father's body (don't worry, he'd be back....) so she can hopefully escape his curse of an eternal death. So for much of the film, she's a neck biter with a conscience, but when one requires a certain substance to live, one is going to steal or kill to get it, no matter how hard they are trying to get off the stuff....One thing is certain in this film, and that is the fact that Marya wanted no part of her father's curse. It seems like there was no love lost between them, and it is a shame that the proposed flashback featuring Lugosi in his pre-vampire days ended up being scraped. What remains, however, is a thrilling Gothic melodrama where the often partially hidden Holden makes for certain that if she can't be cured of her vampirism, she's at least going to have love through the presence of doctor Otto Kruger who is in love with somebody else. Of course, a woman scorned (especially one with fangs) is going to use the other woman to get what she wants, even if it means leading Kruger back to Dracula's castle in order to make the decision: His life or his lady love's. Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) is back too even if he's more there to explain the background rather than move the plot forward. While it appears that dummies representing Lugosi and Dwight Frye's mad Renfield are the actors themselves, studio documents have shown otherwise. Replacing Frye is Irving Pichel as Sandor, an equally creepy character who follows Holden around like a lost mouse.The film has a genuine creepy atmosphere, although it seems to be set in more modern times than its predecessor, even though it takes place right afterwords. There's enough fog and slow moving photography to make for a really chilling atmosphere, and the insinuations of Holden's lesbian provocations in one scene are obvious even though it is clear that she wants to make Kruger her love slave. It would take another decade for Lugosi to return to his Count Dracula role on film, but playing cape clad characters in the classic horror films reminded the many fans of what he would ultimately be remembered for. It's just a shame that he didn't end up here and that more family exposition was made, a factor which greatly damaged the next "Dracula" film where his supposed "son" turned the family name around to disguise who he was.

Highly entertaining sequel to Universal's classic Dracula. Picking up where that film left off, Professor Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) is arrested after having just staked Dracula. He summons a friend, psychiatrist Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger), to help him convince the police he's not nuts. Meanwhile, Countess Zaleska (Gloria Holden) steals Dracula's body and burns it. Turns out she is Dracula's vampire daughter and wants to be free of the "Dracula curse." When she meets Garth, she becomes intrigued by his ideas of overcoming addiction through force of will and he becomes intrigued by the mysterious Countess.Gloria Holden is excellent and brings a strong screen presence to the film. She commands every scene she's in. She does most of her acting with her eyes, which never seem to close. While perhaps not what many would consider a great beauty, she has a definite sex appeal and exotic allure about her that is palpable. Otto Kruger, a fine character actor I like quite a bit, seems miscast and too old for this part. Still, he gives it his all. Marguerite Churchill's character Janet is annoying, childish, and clingy. She's the worst part of the film for me. Cesar Romero and Jane Wyatt were set to play the parts that went to Kruger and Churchill. They had to drop out when filming was delayed. It's odd Romero was replaced by Kruger as the two couldn't have been more different, physically or stylistically. Irving Pichel gives a memorably creepy performance as Sandor, the Countess' manservant. In addition to being an actor, Pichel was also a fine and underrated director. Edward Van Sloan is enjoyable as always, though he seems to have little to do except provide a link between the original film and this sequel.Some obvious continuity issues aside (Von instead of Van Helsing, among others), it's a very good classic horror film. The highlight is Holden's "seduction" of a young and pretty model (Nan Grey), which is frequently discussed for its lesbian overtone. This is one of those horror films with a sympathetic villain that you find yourself rooting for more than the heroes. Countess Zaleska is certainly more captivating than stuffy Garth or bratty Janet. Director Lambert Hillyer, who normally directed low-budget westerns, does a remarkable job of creating the kind of atmosphere we associate with the great Universal horror films. I definitely recommend you check this one out.