Bram Stoker's classic tale of Dracula has been reproduced on the screen many times, none of these are more chilling and dramatic than the 1931 Universal Studios version starring Bela Lugosi (Dracula) and Dwight Frye (Renfield). Bela Lugosi's sinister performance as Count Dracula is a masterpiece in stunning non-color otherwise known as glorious black and white.

Movie fact : Filmed simultaneously with the English Dracula, was a Spanish Dracula that utilized the same sets and identical script. The English version was filmed during the day and the Spanish at night.

The real estate agent who is sent to Transylvania to sell Carfax Abbey. Where he is enslaved by Dracula and becomes a raving loon to put it lightly. Being confined to the asylum, and aware of the foolishness of taking on a full-sized hospital orderly, he starts by consuming flies, then develops a scheme of feeding the flies to spiders, and the spiders to birds, in order to accumulate more and more life. When denied a cat to accommodate the birds, he eats the birds himself.

"He is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows what he is talking about better than any one else. He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats, these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind, work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy." [Dracula, ch.9]

Frankenstein is an all time masterpiece adapted by James Whale from Mary Shelley's novel written and published in 1831. This classic film portrays a story we all know about the mad scientist, Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) who aspires to create a monster from lifeless body parts.

In this 1931 film from Universal Studios, Boris Karloff portrays the legendary Frankenstein's monster as a misunderstood creature simply struggling to find an identity. This stellar performance is said by many to be the best monster portrayal of all times.

Cursed to be entombed alive for attempting to use forbidden magic to resurrect his lost love, The Mummy (Boris Karloff) has been awakened by a team of archaeologist. His obsession with claiming his lost princess has not faded.

In his quest to find his lost love he finds that her soul had been reincarnated and he attempts to mummify her so that she can live forever as his bride. His captive must rediscover her past self to learn the secrets that could free her from this curse.