Béla Lugosi

READERS: For Halloween, what are your memories of vampires? Do you prefer the classic Draculas like Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee or the younger vamps from Twilight and True Blood? Who's scarier? To report corrections and clarifications,...

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...are. Since Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee first donned Dracula's wardrobe, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise have chugged romantic gore in Ann Rice's Interview with a Vampire and even Eddy Murphy blooded himself as a Vampire in Brooklyn. But this...

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...a widow's peak and sexually menacing. And not only did this film (and Lugosi) establish vampires in film, it also jump-started Universal Pictures' domination of the horror-film industry for two decades. Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher...

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...based on the Universal movies of the 1930s. Color re-imaginings of horror standards made stars out of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing who became the new Karloff and Lugosi of horror cinema. Most of the Hammer films are excellent, but...

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...he's a bastard in his real life, but the man can act. And his Dracula kicked ass. I also think Bela Lugosi was a much better Dracula than Christopher Lee. And Tom Cruise's Lestat blew. And Wesley Snipes… seriously? Wesley Snipes is ranked...

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...people are ready for some magic." Vampires have been hardy souls on screen for ages, dating back to 1920s and '30s classics such as "Nosferatu," "Vampyr" and the original "Dracula," with Bela Lugosi. Dracula has been played by countless...

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...into so many ­diff­erent visions, says Dacre. On film there was Bela Lugosi s menacing count, Christopher Lee s sinister predator and George Hamilton s suave sophisticate, among ­hundreds. On TV there s been Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I...

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...ahead of trying to master the role. You could have gone for, among others, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman, David Niven, Patrick Bergin or comic takes by George Hamilton and Leslie Nielsen. Dracula has had numerous onscreen...

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...Dracula Lives Count Dracula, the great-granddaddy of vampires, is poised for a comeback (not counting any previous incarnations in which he was portrayed by Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, George Hamilton or Udo Kier). That Transylvanian...

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