Dracula (1931)
I watched this in a watch-a-long with a Letterboxd friend last night. Despite me owning this film for years in the Universal Monsters legacy collection i'd never bothered to watch it and neither had she.
Filmed Corman gorilla style on the sets of Universal's Dracula production when filming wrapped for the day this is a fair bit of fun. Parts of it are suitably Gothic, parts better than the main feature, but at 105 minutes it is overlong.
I think among the many laughs we had at the antics on screen the main thing we took out of this was changing Jonathan Harker's name to Juan (Why not Juanathan?) and the fact Van Helsing was the spitting image of Eugene Levy. "Now then Juanathan, i'm going to tell you about crosses ... and probably masturbation too"
