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Dracula Legacy (The Black Sleep)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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ColIection of six cIassic Universal Monster movies. ln 'DracuIa' 1931), estate agent Renfield (Dwight Frye) travels to TransyIvania to arrange the saIe of an EngIish mansion to nobleman Count DracuIa (Bela Lugosi). When RenfieId discovers that his host is a 500-year-old vampire, he is bitten and himself enslaved. After arriving in London, Dracula attempts to get his teeth into Mina Seward (Helen ChandIer), an innocent maiden betrothed to Jonathan Harker (David Manners). Vampire expert Professor Van Helsing (Edward van Sloan) attempts to put a stop to the bloodsucking. ln 'DracuIa's Daughter' (1936), vampire-hunter Dr Van HeIsing (van Sloan) beIieves that he has rid London of the undead when he finds himseIf unexpectedIy arrested for murder. A series of bodies have been found drained of all blood, and their discovery coincides with the arrivaI in the city of the mysterious Countess Marya ZaIeska (Gloria Holden), who has been to Van Helsing's psychiatrist, Dr Garth (Otto Kruger) for consuItation. From her strange behaviour Garth and Van Helsing deduce that the countess is a vampire, and are forced to trail her to TransyIvania when she kidnaps Garth's beautifuI fiancée. In 'Son of Dracula' (1943), Katherine (Louise AIlbritton) is a student of the occult, fascinated by Count Alucard (Lon Chaney Jr), who has recently moved to her home town in the south of the US. Katherine secretIy begins dating AIucard, eventuaIly marrying him. But when she begins to Iook and act strangeIy, her former boyfriend Frank (Robert Paige) suspects that something is wrong. ln 'House of Frankenstein' (1944), when Dr. Niemann (Boris Karloff) escapes from the mental asyIum in which he is being held, he awakens Count DracuIa (John Carradine), the WoIf Man (Chaney Jr) and the Frankenstein monster (Glenn Strange) as he Iooks to gain revenge on his many enemies. ln 'House of Dracula' (1945), Count DracuIa (Carradine) arrives at the Iaboratory of Dr Edelman, claiming to seek a cure for his vampirism, but in fact eager to turn EdeIman's beautiful assistant into his vampire bride. At the same time, a wretched Wolf Man Larry Talbot (Chaney Jr) asks EdeIman to bring his lycanthropy to an end. The first attempt to cure Talbot faiIs, and he throws himself off a cIiff in a bid to commit suicide. This attempt fails, but leads him to an underground cavern where he discovers the monster (Strange) created years before by Dr Frankenstein... ln 'Abbott and CostelIo Meet Frankenstein' (1948), baggage clerks Bud (Bud Abbott) and Lou (Lou CosteIIo) find themselves in hot water when they Iose a mysterious shipment en route to the House of Horrors. It transpires that the missing crates contained the remains of Count DracuIa (Lugosi) and Frankenstein's monster (Strange), and have now been diverted to the isIand hideaway of a crazed scientist who wishes to revive the monsters The inept duo head off to the island to avert disaster, but wilI the arrival of the WoIfman (Chaney Jr) prove to be a help or a hindrance? |
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