Bela Lugosi achieved fame for portraying Dracula. In 1916, he had another role...

[Miles Archer]

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Young Bela Lugosi playing Jesus in a stage production in Hungary in 1916

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[hlthe2b]

1. THAT is a creepy picture... even had you not told us who it was.

Just damned creepy... He has that crazed serial killer look about him...

[Aristus]

6. Interesting.

My reaction was just that he made for an emo Jesus.

[at140]

2. Best Dracula portrayal was by....

Christopher Lee.

[Siwsan]

3. I understood the seduction factor with the Langella portrayal and the fear with Lee's

Both were well 'transmitted' by those actors. (Although Langella 's appearance could hardly be further away from Stoker's description of Dracula) Lugosi's Dracula scared me because it wasn't his physical presence that made him seductive to women or frightening, as a whole. It was his supernatural powers that both drew women to him and sent chills down spines.

Also, with the Lugosi film, the sophisticated ability to create special effects were years away so (IMHO) much more of the story had to be told by the actors.

[Miles Archer]

5. In the Lugosi film, you could FEEL those cobwebs, you could FEEL that cold, dank castle

I loved all of the Lee / Cushing Hammer films. Some were stronger than others, every one wasn't a stone-cold classic. But even the weaker ones had that Hammer vibe.

Lee rode the see-saw of Dracula as a charming Count and a to-the-bone madman. His transitions were jarring and powerful.

Lugosi, even though he flared up a few times (such as when Van Heling shows him the mirror), maintained a low simmer of menace throughout the entire film. For him, it really was the role of a lifetime, his masterpiece.

[Siwsan]

10. Christopher Lee was TERRIFYING in those Hammer Films

And, yes, the Lugosi (and all of those other amazing 1930's Universal horror films) had such bone chilling atmospheres.

For me, one of the scariest moments, out of ALL of the Dracula films was the brief shot in the Langella version of an upside down Dracula hanging in front of the window, digging away at the leading in the window. I remember reading a vampire story, years ago, with that same scenario and it absolutely raises the hair on the back of my neck, just thinking about it.

[at140]

11. I was 19 years old when I saw the movie

with Christopher Lee. My bedroom was the lone room on 3rd floor of my house in India.
And it had creaky windows. In India, we leave windows open at night to get cooler air in
I literally was scared like never before. Although should have
realized Dracula went only after females, but did kill any male who got in the way.

[Siwsan]

13. My parents let me stay up late to watch The Mummy, when I was young

I was probably about 10. We had recently visited the Field Museum, in Chicago, and I spent a whole lot of time in the Egyptian section, absolutely fascinated yet horrified by the mummy display.

Of course, after the movie ended, each and every sound I heard convinced me I had been cursed, during that visit, and was about to meet a gruesome end at the wrapped hands of a spectral mummy.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Regardless of role

his forte is rising from the dead.

[Codeine]

7. You vill drink my blud! nt

[at140]

14. Haha

better get hold of some garlic fast lol

[d_r]

8. seems obligatory

[Paladin]

9. I would imagine Lugosi actually LOOKS somewhat like Jesus.

At least a lot more than the Brad Pitt look-alikes you see way too often, in whiter-than-white churches and Bibles.

[bigtree]

12. Jesus Meets the Wolf Man

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