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we stan a tragically repressed lesbian goth queen

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it's as if they wrote a half-assed script, filled it with perfectly fine actors, then cast gloria holden without realizing she would give such an incredible performance whose depth was so far beyond what the movie was prepared to give her to do that they just let her drift off alone onto some higher plane, surrounded her with fog and shadows, and hoped nobody would notice the rest of the movie couldn't catch up - in a way it worked, she truly seems like the loneliest woman in the world.

Review by Sally Jane Black ★★★★

The desperation to fit in, to be normal, to be straight... Here's where we challenge the conception that reviewing films from a political lens demands older films fit today's standards (ignoring everything wrong with that assumption to do so): yesteryear's status quo can sometimes capture something inadvertently. It's not about measuring something by anachronistic standards (my standards derive from Marx and Lenin, who were old hat by 1936, anyway). It's about understanding these films through a lens of the people they left out.

This film, however, accidentally captures a very real feeling, one that sadly lingers today. Kat has thoroughly captured the details here, but suffice to say that the closet drives queer people even 80 years later to wish…

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does the vampiric curse inherently make you bisexual, or are only bisexual people allowed to be turned into vampires?

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"i never drink... wine." that lesbian bloodsucker even agrees that women taste better

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Really, if you just read this as a universal monster movie that maybe didn't need to happen because man, were they reaching then it's just an annoying assault of 30/40's caper comedy in entirely the wrong movie - that bit about tying a bow tie. Tedious. Read as gay horror, this context becomes even more alienating and strange - the constant jocular humor while Gloria Holden just glides right through it. She is completely alone. People treat her like another running gag clumsy female character there to accommodate the other male characters - actually, it is more chilling when no one notices that she is 'strange.' In fact, they dismiss her as a time period romantic comedy love interest -…

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The story picks up moments after 1931’s Dracula, with a returning Edward Van Sloan hovering over the staked hearted corpse from the first film.... only to get arrested for murder IMMEDIATELY lololol. Gloria Holden is damn good as Countess Marya Zaleska, daughter of the infamous count who turns to psychology in search of a cure for her vampirism, but in the mean time she ends up cruising the streets at night and in the process pissing off her manservant, Sandor (Good! I despised his character). There’s all kinds of things going on in this film.

I’ve always had a liking for Dracula’s Daughter and Son of Dracula, and if you do a simple google search you’ll find a ton of interesting things about this fascinating 1936 movie! The blu in the new Dracula collection looks great and I hope Universal continues to release these sets! Now all I need is this glorious movie poster hanging on my wall!

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its funny how queer coded shit that's literally almost a century old is way more enthralling and sexy and textually rich than anything from the past decade. gloria holden is so incredible. i love movies???????

Review by alanisㅤ󠀠󠀠󠀠 ★★★½

she was beautiful when she died. a hundred years ago. ୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆

౨ i loved how sensitive and melancholic zaleska’s scenes were! ♡ i just wished the entire film had that same vibe — more gothic and less overly dramatic, because sometimes it was too bright and lively for me.

i loved zaleska so much! ♡ she stole the scene every time she appeared. i just wish there were more scenes of her. the ones we got weren’t enough :’)

this is definitely more of a drama than a horror movie. not gonna lie, i was expecting a bit more, but it’s not a bad film, just not as enjoyable as i thought it would be. but overall this film is a nice experience. ৎ

— it’s finally halloween month yay ♱

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It's impossible to miss the overt eroticism of Countess Zaleska's (Gloria Holden) encounters with her female (would be) victims. Particularly with Lili, her helplessness and hunger as the girl's body is progressively revealed to her cannot be mistaken. The two scenes with women stand in stark contrast to the almost offhand way the countess does away with her one male victim, someone so unimportant he merits neither a word nor more than a few seconds of screentime.*

Given this context, Dracula's Daughter very much feels like a less nuanced, simpler predecessor to Jacques Tourneur's 1942 stunner, Cat People, another film in which lesbianism is equated with a supernatural curse. Irena in the later film and the countess here are both…

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I've always been a fan of the classic Universal Monsters. However, I've never really felt inclined to venture into their sequels beyond "Bride of Frankenstein," and after going through the "Mummy" series recently it did little to change my mind. So, this brings me to "Dracula's Daughter," which along with "Son of Dracula," I picked up at my local store on the off chance I might enjoy them, and enjoy them I did! To my surprise this was a genuinely enjoyable film and one that I consider to be on the same level as its predecessor.

This entry picks up moments after the first film ended. Van Helsing is taken into custody for the murder of Dracula. He's unable to…

Review by Sam ★★★

This film suffers from an absolute lack of narrative. The super brief runtime is incredibly padded out with extended scenes of people stood around talking about nothing particularly interesting. Having said that, I'm a huge fan of the cinematography in this, the light and shadows are absolutely beautiful and when the atmosphere works, it works perfectly