I think the most powerful scene that is influenced by the music is Dracula coming out the coffin. Without the score it’s relatively awkward. The score transcends the movie from film to a work of art. In my opinion

The music is rather a distraction, taking away the suspense and dread.

I don't think you can overstate how much Bela Lugosi defined the vampire. He is Dracula. Just the way he puts emphasis in all the wrong parts of a sentence commands attention and makes the listener uneasy while he makes the performance so natural and with such confidence you forget you are watching an actor. It is both mesmerizing and disturbing. It's hard to imagine a time before Bela Lugosi's Dracula.

no score elevates the eerie and Gothic tone imo

I think the first scene with the wine is better with no score, and the second is better with it, certain scenes are better without a score.

Lugosi and Frye's performence is so strong the music is distracting .

Im someone who dont like male friends or Louis Xiv or Kurt Schneider is raped.

Just beautiful with a score

What a gift to hear this music. May the Lord bless you for all you did for a bunch of kids in South Huntington NY. It was the 1980s and we are still in the Word 2024 because of your influence and love. Thank you 🙏

I feel sorry for the creators of this film. They are so clearly depressed, and therefore seeing all in the black, catastrophic vision. There were so many beautiful, joyful sides, but that is not for the depressed souls…

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I remember watching the version with the Glass score, First & foremost backround music is not supposed to compete with the actors script. the music score & volume never seemed to let up. So after a short time it grew annoying. A good composer should know a little goes a long way, And the use of dynamics/playing softer & lower & pausing are crucial in music.

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My cousin, Paul Cuoco, is in this band. They'd play concerts locally and they toured also. I saw them perform at Alley Pond Park in the early 1970s.

Better without.

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Both work, its a masterpiece with or without music.

I said it elsewhere, but I like both versions for different reasons. The music-less Original is deathly quiet and very eerie. The Version with Glass' Score is full of nervous energy. Both silence and music add their own kind of tension.

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The music gets in the way !

Dracula acts so oddly and stiltedly because he is simply unused to interacting with ordinary humans after centuries lurking in his castle. Lugosi is a creepy, unsettling presence throughout whereas with Lee, it's the abrupt contrast between his earlier civilised, normal self and his new ferocity.

The score is crap.

The scene moves much faster with music than without.

Oigo voces en el pasillo, alguien se acerca por el pasillo, oigo pasos en el pasillo, ojos que acechan en el pasillo. Y lo puedo reconocer, esos ojos que acechan son de Lucifer. Es la muerte que llega con su azadón a buscarte en la noche, pánico, pánico. Oigo voces en el pasillo, alguien se acerca por el pasillo, oigo pasos en el pasillo, ojos que acechan en el pasillo. Y lo puedo reconocer, esos ojos que acechan son de Lucifer. Es la muerte que llega con su azadón a buscarte en la noche, pánico, pánico.

Without music makes it feel like a documentary, with music makes it more cinematic.

I can see how terrifying this was for my great grand and grandparents.

It was very strange to watch this film, as the night before I revisited Lost Highway which had similar themes of reality vs. illusion, possible split personality issues. Incredible cinematic effects by the director and I love how he made it all connect in the later part of the film. A bit of a wild ride but I usually prefer the roller coaster to the merry go round.

Loved these guys since 1972!

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I think the score works better for the dialogue scenes that aren’t as spooky cause those often feel more awkward without the score compared to the spookier scenes like this

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Oldy, but a goody for sure!

I first watched the film with the score 20 years ago which is excellent and creates a melancholy mood cut with moments of frenzy. Now knowing it was added and having watched it silent it is eerie and dreamlike with the pauses between dialogue and quiet establishing shots. Both are great. I think an edit where Glass main title music replaces the ill fitting swan lake cue and then the rest of the film silent could be excellent.

dracula say begone thots!

No doubt,Bela will always be the greatest Dracula,Glass works,Bye for now love Alan

You feel less safe when there's no soundtrack or sound ques to guide your emotions. Just like renfield, you're in this room with Dracula, and the atmosphere is so thick, you could cut it with a knife. Even in the 92 Dracula, the scenes with renfield and dracula are quiet and brooding. Sound can create terror, there isn't a more terrifying soundscape, than silence.

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the silent version is so much better, i am disappointed my first time watching it was with the music. Definitely gonna have to go back and give the silent a rewatch

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Where can I watch the full version with the Glass score please?

The real Dracula is Béla Lugosi.

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A very good film. Thank you.

I love new things getting tried with established works like the 31 Dracula - the world of art is big enough for these experiments! As for this particular music, Kronos is amazing as always. However Glass' score reminds me just how repetitive his music is... just over and over quickly with the same notes in the same rhythm, yeesh. It works for some pieces, but seems cheap after a while and I'm sitting thinking doesn't he do anything else? I'm really down for everything here but the Glass part.

The Philip Glass/Kronos Quartet score reinvents and elevates what is already a brilliant piece of cinema. Personally, I find it ratchets up the tension with that coiled spring aching for release quality that so much of Mr. Glass' work conveys. When this movie was made sound had only been in use for 2-3 years. They were still figuring out how it could enhance the drama specifically. The opening use of 'Swan Lake' was not written with Dracula in mind and had been used in other films of this period. Max Stiener's score for King Kong would be a game changer in another 2 years.

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Boy that music totally stunk. Would have fit perfectly if I were in a shopping mall or elevator. Not only do you get very dramatic moments with the original silence, but if you were to add music, it has to be at specific moments to enhance the scene, not overwhelm and distract. And the music must have a dark feel. Think Wojciech Kilar.

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where can I watch it?