Filmed at night on the same sets as the Lugosi version, this Spanish-language adaptation is in some ways better, with more fluid direction and scenes of horror and sensuality only hinted at in the Browning movie. Unfortunately, this long-thought-lost and recently rediscovered curiosity runs too long and Villarias totally lacks the charisma of Bela Lugosi, proving once and for all who the movies' definitive Count Dracula *really* is.

Better than the Lugosi or Coppola's versions, but not by much. Maybe I'm approaching this wrong because at times it seems to be unabashedly playing things for comedy, but even in that case it's wildly inconsistent. The guy who plays Renfield is certainly the high point and Dracula is campy fun but the rest of the acting is mediocre.

Although lensed simultaneously with Browning's better-known Bela edition, using the same sets and basic script, this Spanish version emerges as a much different -- in many ways superior -- fear film. Melford didn't even speak Spanish. Fortunately, he had a top cast to work with. Villarias makes for a suitably menacing Dracula, while Rubio, as the insect-eating Renfield, goes even further over the top than his Anglo counterpart, Dwight Frye. Far more than a curio, this is a highly effective film

Better shot than the english version, but many of the spanish actors are goofy, particularly Dracula himself.

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