Dracula in 4K Ultra HD | "I Am Dracula, I Bid You Welcome" | (90th Anniversary) Extended Preview

[@jackbrigoli7452]

This is such an iconic moment. No colour yet the atmosphere is absolutely perfect. Dracula's chilling presence still gives me goose bumps and the way Bela Lagosi captures the character of pure evil mixed with a hint of seduction and grace is just perfect. I've loved Dracula all my life and this movie hits all the right spots.

[@superjetze]

Those bats though...

[@amaroszapatacolina5226]

"No color yet the atmosphere is absolutely perfect... Bela Lagosi! 🥰🥰🤗

[@genericwhitekidthesecond4330]

Something that I think is worth pointing out is that by 1931 sound movies were still a relatively new thing being that the first sound film was in 1927 and even that the moments with sound in that movie were very brief. This is why it might seem jarring to watch today because outside of the main theme of the movie and when people were talking there was no effort made towards creating a soundscape or any sort of film score/soundtrack. This silence though just really works in these movies and doesn't come off as awkward.

[@jackbrigoli7452]

@genericwhitekidthesecond4330 That's very true. I just love the way the silence works, and even the lack of music has a profound and creepy effect.

[@sablebranwen2539]

Imagine giving a performance so iconic that people still imitate it nearly 100 years later. Truly, Bela Lugosi is as immortal as Dracula himself!

[@harrypalmer4857]

Immortal. Apart from the ‘being very dead’ bit.

[@darkhunter3941]

@@harrypalmer4857 ..........undead undead undead. :P

[@margaritabell]

Bela's Dracula is the perfect mix of classy, charming, seductive, commanding, creepy and mysterious, I just adore him! Not to mention that iconic voice. Such a great performance, and the definitive take on the Count!!

[@Wierdo_g]

And gay

[@eq1373]

Gay?

[@gabrielelatorre22]

​@@Wierdo_ggay ?🧐

[@drewski1535]

No one can do better than Bela Lugosi they don't have talent like this anymore

[@johnkamadeva4747]

@@Wierdo_g you’re talking about yourself son 😆

[@fgraziani]

I showed Dracula to an elementary English language class at a junior college in Japan and the students were absolutely captivated by it.

[@MrEjidorie]

I`m sure you made an excellent choice to motivate your Japanese students to learn English. Many Japanese people consider they cannot learn English because English is too hard to learn. But once Japanese people are motivate properly, I think they are quick learners of English.

[@MelancoliaI]

Commendable of you, but ironic. Lugosi learned his lines in the Dracula stage-play (upon which this film is based) phonetically. I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but it's true. That's why his cadence is so weird in this movie, and hence so effective. "Wee will be leaaaving....tomorrow....eeeeeevening."

[@lisardo]

I know this is the start of the "talkies" and all, but the lack of music makes it creepier! Great scene!

[@raulquiroz7492]

I agree. I hate that all these new horror films have obnoxious soundtracks. Don't get me wrong there are a few modern horror films with surprisingly great osts, but nothing beats pure silence, because like you said it forces the viewer to fully immerse themselves in the visuals and non-musical sounds.

[@roarickshu]

The absence of music makes it almost feel like a stage play (in a good way).

[@alejandroperez-yy9ym]

Very very creepy indeed

[@Queen_Miku]

I saw this movie in my 4th period class and the silence made me fall asleep about halfway into this movie and i really wish i could've seen those parts i fell asleep to now- (Don't blame me since school starts at 7am for me and i'm tired af more than half of the time)

[@JeffreyPiatt]

because not every town had a s aound equipt projector they were still distributing films in this era in Silent format. so the film has spacing to place the cards

[@andromedaturnbull3512]

Wow, Bela Lugosi nailed ASMR over a half century earlier before it was a genre. Pure skill, class and perfection.

[@Turtle1631991]

My life goal is to learn to mimic the accent and all the mannerism of the character and then open a little bed and breakfast.

[@joerectifier]

Hahahahahaha!

[@LiveandLetDie007]

Excellent idea...I wish you all the success. For one who has not even lived a single lifetime, you are quite wise...

[@XaVi_ToussainT]

Haha 😂

[@arty712]

That actually sounds pretty cool.

[@adamromero]

Let me know when you do it, I wanna go! 🧛‍♂

[@BB1951]

"I beed you velcome!" Fantastic restoration. The amount of work put into this is hard to fathom. Without the background hiss, scratches or frame jumps, it looks pristine.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

5:38 The expression on Draccy's face is hilarious. He must have realized the property taxes went up

[@AishaVonFossen]

Right?! 😂🤣

[@jenniferbassfirstchannel]

Nothing better than watching Dracula on a rainy day or night! ❤❤

[@someguy42093]

With the Philip glass/kronos quartet score!!! It’s so great. Swan lake Dosent work.

[@ShannonFreng]

I admire the way Lugosi was able to effortlessly reach for the wine glass and bottle (at 7:02), with perfect precision, though all the while, maintaining a fixed gaze upon Frye--not an easy thing to do (which probably took more than one take). It was with equal amusement, that I heard for the first time, "I never drink. . .wine" (considering I've always loathed the taste of it). Lugosi was the best!

[@lw3646]

So many films today are just wall to wall music, the lack of it here I think actually makes it creepier and makes you watch closer.

[@DanBellFilmIt]

This restoration looks absolutely amazing. So much detail. You can see everything like the set decorators and director intended. This is definitely the most iconic horror movie of all time. Bela is amazing. I could watch this movie over and over and never grow tired of it.

[@eharper7]

Dracula: I am Dracula Me: That's nice. I'll be going now.

[@mikeshirleyforever]

What a restoration! Incredible! I've never seen this look so prestine.

[@harrisonneves6007]

Listen to them. The children of the night, what music they make

[@rc59191]

I quite like the old gritty aesthetic but this is nice too.

[@amaroszapatacolina5226]

...This look so prestine" 😍🤟😁

[@Carface_Youtube]

Amazing set design.

[@russiantroubleyakutsk1612]

Watched this from Brasov, Romania!

[@stefanbernhard2710]

Children of ze night🌙

[@bretflemmusic]

I remember my parents asking me if I was gonna be scared of watching this movie when I was 7 or 8 years old I told them no> But after watching the movie I went upstairs and went into my bathroom I was thankful that I had a nightlight in my bathroom I sat down on my toilet seat for a hour in a half processing everything that I watched I was totally blown away by the movie I love every single person in this movie. And yes Bella Lugosi is Count Dracula he iin bodys that charecter so well thats scary enough in itself for anyone who's seen this movie

[@johnbarry5036]

amazing a 90 year old film looks this good. The 4k transfer was done well.

[@barryvincentredmond3973]

Actually 93 years old.The film was released in 1931.

[@andyrevo19]

Literally goosebumps when Dracula enters the picture. . So iconic.

[@781Florist]

In addition to the accent and the gaze, I am always struck by how very long Bela's fingers are! They add to the overall creepiness of the character.

[@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697]

an amazing classic horror movie and one of my favourite classic horror movies and stunning in 4K

[@captainamerica6525]

"I am Dracula. I bid you welcome". Gotta go!

[@Angel-xd9lt]

I always had a soft spot for vampires when I was 7 or 5 and Dracula was my favorite monster of all time... and Bram Stroker's Dracula 1992 was amazing and Gary Oldman was amazing as Count Dracula and Winona Ryder as Mia Murrary. I have both movies on DVD I still watch them for Halloween. Halloween is my favorite hoilday and Christmas.

[@CountofBeretania]

“I am…Dracula.” Lugosi is not saying he’s Dracula…he’s TELLING you he’s Dracula.

[@caroltenge5147]

Lugosi is not playing Dracula…he’s TELLING you he IS Dracula!

[@groofoot]

That is one dedicated insurance salesman ... he deserves a raise!

[@leftcoaster67]

He's a lawyer or a real estate agent.

[@stevemuzak8526]

Dear Universal. Keep doing this. Restore this brilliant movies in 4K. Support physical media.

[@josephnavarro914]

I'm Definitely Dressing as Bela Lugosi next Halloween.. Iove this Dracula I Bid You Welcome

[@DR-mq1vn]

90 years old! Wow!

[@JohnMartin-oh6bf]

Those sets are amazing.

[@javiergonzalezantonio9061]

Grande Bela Lugosi el mejor Drácula

[@marcuscompton3772]

I would love to have seen peoples face in the theater watching this! I'll bet they were terrified!!

[@lilypondlane]

My mother was a teenager when she saw Bela Lugosi on stage as Dracula. She said that at one point, there was only the light of one candle on the stage and the women in the audience were screaming in terror when the Count bit one of his victims who was asleep in her bed.

[@VincentGravesly]

Love this scene so much it always makes me grin. I like watching this movie but with friends I get a little embarrassed about how happy I am to see Lugosi on the screen 😅

[@scottyunitedboy2925]

The sets here are epic and look even better in HD

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life,Mr.Renfield. :D

[@SeanTheDisneyGuy]

RENFIELD: Aren't you going to drink? DRACULA: I never drink Vine.

[@garryferrington811]

Nice to see the lights, darks, and shadows. Matte painting looks great!

[@WillScarlet16]

"Ah, fresh victims for my ever-growing army of the undead;" "Sir, you have to let go of that button." "OH, SON OF A...!!"

[@Wierdo_g]

Mr burns 😅😅

[@SamuelBlack84]

"Hello, mother. Hello, father. I missed you during my uneventful absence"

[@gregdark5203]

Beautiful black and white. That stare is amazing.

[@hilalabbas]

What an iconic scene

[@anthonycrnkovich5241]

The creepy effect is enhanced when dialogue and sound effects break the silence. Music would ruin the sustained atmosphere this movie generates so brilliantly.

[@anthonycrnkovich5241]

It's disconcerting to realize that more time has passed since I first saw DRACULA on TV in 1970 than from the time the film was made to that initial viewing.😮

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

I got the movie on DVD. Plus the 1979 remake with Frank Langella.

[@SnmntlcR]

Confound it!! This film is sooo iconic, Bela Lugosi is incredible charming! Once It has become a reason why I started learning Romanian. Dracula!!

[@nelifl.9756]

Bela 😍

[@JohnDonovanProductions]

Browning ransacked his own earlier work for ideas ; preliminary set sketches by the designer John Ivan Hoffman are obviously based on production stills of Cedric Gibbons ' settings for London After Midnight . The director based his conception of Dracula's wives on actress Edna Tichenor's makeup as Lunette , the bat - girl in the same film , and as a final , perhaps tongue - in - cheek private joke , imported a passel of armadillos to scurry around the great hall of Dracula's castle , just as they had patrolled the shadows of Chaney's creepy house four years earlier . Regarding London after midnight, Forrest J Ackerman , one of the country's leading collectors of fantasy - film memorabilia , saw the film as a boy in San Francisco during its initial release , and likened Chaney's bizarre , scuttling posture to a macabre variation on Groucho Marx . The late horror writer Robert Bloch , who also saw the film as a child , recalled one of Browning's oddest bits of atmosphere : a pride of scurrying armadillos , hardly indigenous to London , but glimpsed nonetheless through the cobwebs of the vampire's mansion .

[@Marcelo_DBZ_Music]

I know there's a charm to how faded the sound is in a lot of these old pictures, but can you imagine how different this experience would be if somehow the soundtape was preserved and remastered as well as this picture?

[@Demille40]

The beauty of Dwight Fry’s performance is that he sees what a strange bird Dracula really is. Some of his stares at Dracula are classic. It’s like he’s thinking, “ who is this weirdo?” It even extends to Mina imitating Dracula’s accent to Lucy in London. They don’t take him seriously until the biting starts. This ironic sense of humor is what the Spanish version sorely lacks.

[@leftcoaster67]

I know it would have over-worked Bela. But could you imagine Bela in the Spanish Dracula? It would have been amazing.

[@Nic-tg2ei]

Nice to see such a high quality original screen version boosted with a bit of contrast. No one liked the original anyway. My favourite part so far has been the smoothing in the midtones and noise in the highlights. When you see the face, the shadows are perfectly smooth and the lit parts of the face keep the noise and sharpen the hell out of it. Nice work.

[@leftcoaster67]

The famous Transylvanian Armadillos!

[@seprisusanto1652]

Listen to them.....children of the night...... what music they make

[@pereserra2062]

Bela Lugosi ... I L

[@fletchkeilman2205]

Other kids watched Transformers or GI Joe, maybe even My Little Pony. I watched these films. I'm still mesmerized to this day by them. Don't get me wrong. I watched Saturday morning cartoons. But right after cartoons came monster movies, Three Stooges shorts, and Kung Fu movies. THOSE are what I anticipated all week long to see

[@Dnvr8083]

English actor Ralph Fiennes has a similar facial structure, look and mimicry skills (Schindler's List, Anyegin). I think he would have been a good Dracula too.

[@kenrozmislowicz9456]

No one can portray Dracula better than Bela Lugosi

[@mac651000]

Re watching these scenes, it is easy to see where Gary Oldman gained his inspiration for his own, excellent portrayal of the immortal Count.

[@jamiewicker9837]

It’s good, but I also enjoy it with the Philip Glass score

[@MrSloika]

The Glass score is intrusive, it can drown out the dialog.

[@jamiewicker9837]

Disagree

[@johnmurphy7674]

I disagree. Although the score is good, it's too modern for a 30s movie.

[@Christian-97]

The lack of music makes it more immersive and creepy.

[@cha5]

I always get a kick out of the Armadillos and Opossums in this film, even though they aren't native to Transylvania, we have a lot of them in Texas.

[@yespls4184]

Lmao exactly what i was thinking

[@lesliaorue5417]

Awesome!🤩🩸🩸🩸🩸❣

[@brenttaylordotus]

Part of what makes all movies like this great is, what’s not going on

[@tomphillips2214]

AWESOME THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@dallaskoivu8951]

A very subtle touch many people miss his when Dracula walks up the stairs through the Spiderwebs without disrupting them That Was the point in which Renfield should’ve left saying nope nope nope This guy is too weird home office is going to Have to send somebody else To finish this real estate deal with this guy not me

[@neliaferreira9983]

Noone missed that.

[@markmcnary1785]

If it weren't for Bela Lugosi playing Dracula, there would never have been a Barnabas Collins, or Dark Shadows on TV at all in 1966. Dracula is the king of all vampires, and Barnabas Collins, is the descendant, that came after.

[@maralisil]

Love his "R's"😊

[@walterfechter8080]

"Bela Lugosi IS Dracula." - My Romanian grandparents

[@rgracia633]

Amazing scenes

[@mars353]

“I bid you welcome” said the spider to the fly.

[@ooEVILGOAToo]

"I am Dracoola" :D

[@FelipeSilva-pj8vl]

This certainly is one of the Dracula movies - not to mention an example from the whole Universal Monsters gallery - I've really longed Konami had managed to fully acquire rights to create their own version of whole Castlevania franchise based on the former. Like a parallel franchise for both niches to draw the same amount of inspiration and detail from one another. It'd certainly be a dream come true.😅

[@donkeykongisytpooping3002]

Well some elements were based loosely on these old movies in the games that came before IGA took over and gave the franchise more of a unique identity. As these films get older they get closer to becoming public domain. We’re getting close for this one.

[@thomasreghi7052]

First seen in 1962. Unforgettable! Werewolf and Jeckle and Hyde somewhat complicated this genre. FRANKENSTEIN was (not sure) an improvement. Couldn't begin to guess what the Countess of Polignac saw in England when they were supposed to have a second type of summer near Brussels Belgium or farther westward.

[@Elfspeth1]

Apparently some vampires can transform into armadillos

[@davidviton1065]

Bella should be good at doing Dracula he did a thousand times in the theater

[@gunzligah5764]

This movie still very much olds up for being a hundred years old

[@Tool-Deftonesfan101]

Bauhaus brought me here!🤘🏽😈🤘🏽

[@thatodddoomer0635]

Best Dracula

[@johnd7435]

Geniuses often have cluttered residences..

[@someguy42093]

Will it have the Philip glass score? The new score is INCREDIBLE and makes the movie so much better. And scarier. So much scarier. Watch it with the Phillip glass/kronos quartet score

[@ernst91]

This is historical footage.

[@luckyday465768]

Armadillos in Transylvania?

[@Chalwa]

Am I going insane? I thought he cut his thumb on a knife while getting a piece of bread. I don’t remember this version. I must be nuts.

[@veganmeatballsareyoukiddingme]

I think you're thinking of Nosferatu.

[@fabpe9141]

Si taglia il dito con il coltello nella versione di Dracula spagnolo del 1931

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I have read the book but never actually seen the film

[@annalisavajda252]

Beautiful but why does he have armadillos though?

[@jamescross5678]

When he said I bid you welcome, it would've cool when he turned he said "walk this way" like Igore.

[@gregoriusu]

This isn't Mel Brooks LOL

[@BeauHoyt-n9p]

1:16 Why are there Armadillos here ?

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Because if they were in the middle of the road, they'd get hit by a car!

[@landonjr5063]

I am Dracula

[@marcusbaker830]

Dracula: *Sees that Renfield has a cut and gets turned on by it*

[@CaptainVelveeta]

4K Ultra HD? Hardly, I've seen DVD Rips that look better than this.

[@njlillycline]

I was Dracula about 5 Halloweens in a row as a kid

[@marshmallowbudgie]

1:16 rats, bats--armadillos?

[@calrob300]

IDK what's 4K about this. I tried watching @ 1080 and when I zoomed in, the image was still blurry and full of film grain. The audio hiss was so prominent it sounded like heavy rain. Surely a major studio could do better.

[@Wonton-the-Sea-Snail]

i see how Bloodbourne was inspired by this

[@marshmallowbudgie]

"my postillion has been struck by lightning"

[@zhouly]

Was that a pair of armadillos I saw crawling around Dracula’s castle at 1:18?

[@BeauHoyt-n9p]

Yes. I wonder why they're here.

[@alexrupertfitness]

Not sure why they can't fix the graininess by restoring it frame by frame. At least the picture doesn't shake and I see minimal imperfections in the film itself. Audio hiss is still present, dunno why that wasn't fixed either.

[@HoorayTV21]

Graininess, Audio hiss? Its a film made in 1930.............you new to this? Its also unnaturally dark but you don't mention that? lol

[@alanloewen4148]

I'm sorry, but I am sorely disappointed if this is 4K Ultra HD. I have seen much clearer presentations with much brighter colors. The first few minutes are far too dark. Also, I cannot find a 4K Ultra HD version for sale.

[@jamesjackson4558]

I never drink... wine

[@soundoflight8193]

Is Dracula wearing a Star of David brooch?

[@Batmandarknitexx]

Who else is here after watching Renfield?

[@Penguins34455]

No,

[@Yunginsanityy]

I got a neca Dracula figure and just wanted to know why he wore a top hat cause it just seemed so goofy to me

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

When Dracula goes to London in the 1931 film, he dons a top hat.

[@cameronpearce5943]

I never drink... wine...