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When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
Ivan F. Simpson
- Jan
- (as Ivan Simpson)
Carroll Borland
- Luna
- (as Carol Borland)
Eily Malyon
- Sick Woman
- (scenes deleted)
Guy Bellis
- Ronnie - Englishman at Inn
- (uncredited)
James Bradbury Jr.
- Fourth Vampire
- (uncredited)
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Tod Browning's return to the genre that made him famous brings along Bela Lugosi to reprise his role as a sinister Count. This vampiric tale is mixed in with a murder mystery. I found the end results to be very weird, unusual and entertaining. What I thought was going to be a routine horror story has a very funny twist. To give it away would be telling. If you're in the mood for something different then by all means watch.
Recommended.
B+
Recommended.
B+
- Captain_Couth
- Nov 11, 2003
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Storyline
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- TriviaThroughout the film, Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) has an unexplained bullet wound on his temple. In the original script Mora was supposed to have had an incestuous relationship with his daughter Luna and to have committed suicide. After filming began, however, MGM deleted references to the crime (and any remaining references may have been deleted when 20 minutes of footage was removed after the film's preview). Because director Tod Browning's previous film, Freaks (1932), had been a box-office disaster, he was unable to object to any changes made by the studio.
- GoofsThe character of Jan (pronounced as it would be in Prague as "yan") is referred to by the English pronunciation inexplicably by one character a few times before returning to pronouncing it correctly.
- Quotes
[Last Lines]
Count Mora: This vampire business, it has given me a great idea for a new act. Luna, in this new act I will be the vampire. Did you watch me? I gave all of me. I was greater than any real vampire.
Luna Mora: Sure, sure, but get off your makeup.
Fourth Vampire: Yes, and help me with some of this packing.
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian DVD edition of this movie, distributed by DNA Srl. The movie was re-edited with the contribution of the film history scholar Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available in streaming on some platforms.
- ConnectionsEdited into Mondo Lugosi - A Vampire's Scrapbook (1987)
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- Also known as
- La marca del vampiro
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- Budget
- $305,177 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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