Tod Browning's "Dracula" In the new sound era of film at the start of the 1930s, Universal Studios attracted many Depression-era audiences to the thrills of the 'horror' genre. Films like " Frankenstein ," " The Invisible Man ," and " The Bride of Frankenstein " all had great success with audiences wanting a thrilling escape from the stress and uncertainty of modern life. The film that started this trend was Tod Browning's 1931 film " Dracula. " The original source material, Bram Stoker's 1897 novel of the same name, had already been adapted to the stage by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston in 1927. The success of the stage play is what ignited the interest in turning the story into a full-length feature film. Universal Studios even hired the actor playing Dracula in the play version, Bela Lugosi, who would forever be iconic for portraying the vampire. There had been one other instance of Stoker's novel bei
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