Son of Dracula

1943

1h 18m

Horror

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60%

15 Reviews

Tomatometer

33%

2,500+ Ratings

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Count Alucard (Lon Chaney) comes out of a lake in his coffin and makes a Southern belle (Louise Allbritton) his bride.

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Variety Staff

Variety

It's a good entry of its type.

Mar 26, 2009

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A.H. Weiler

New York Times

Despite all the accepted props, from the lonely Southern plantation set in a miasmic bog to the squeaking bats and creaking coffins, this thriller is a pretty pallid offering.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 8, 2006

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

The script is far from wonderful, and offers Siodmak little to get his teeth into, notwithstanding a beautifully atmospheric first entry for the Count (Chaney and coffin rising from the misty depths of a lake) and an effective finale.

Feb 9, 2006

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Paul Chambers

Movie Chambers

A tedious tale with perhaps the worst performance ever in a film by Lon Chaney, Jr. A fencepost has more charisma than Chaney as Count Alucard. Painfully slow and awkward.

Rated: D

Oct 26, 2014

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Chaney is the least magnetic actor to don the Universal cape and fangs, though Siodmak rolls with it and surveys the studio's vampiristic paraphernalia with humorous verve

Apr 2, 2010

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

While it is quite silly and suffers from one of the worst casting decisions in the 33 year history of the classic Universal horror, Son of Dracula is actually halfway decent.

Rated: 6/10

Oct 29, 2009

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Matthew L

Long Chaney Jr at his best.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/23/23

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Jelisije J

A film that is saved by its ending.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

09/18/23

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Valerii Ege D

Another unnecessary sequel. Sequels try to add more to differentiate themself from their predecessors. They need to be unique. But by doing this, they hurt the baseline, which is not good.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

09/13/23

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Steve D

Unconnected to the original and uninteresting.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/07/23

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Audience Member

What most viewers are overlooking, is the style of this film is fantastic, it is a horror/noir, forget the story and acting, look at the visuals

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

A step down in the franchise. Dracula, going by the ridiculous nickname Alucard and weakly portrayed by the far from menacing Lon Chaney Jr., is an extra in his own movie. Thus, "Son Of Dracula" works best when Frank and Doctor Brewster are at the forefront and is given color by the former's unraveling and the latter's search for the truth. The twist is decent, Siodmak strikes up notable atmosphere here and there, and the effects are a mixed bag (the mist's pretty cool, the bat still sucks).

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Robert Siodmak

Director

Lon Chaney Jr.

Count Dracula

Robert Paige

Frank Stanley

Louise Allbritton

Katherine Caldwell

Evelyn Ankers

Claire Caldwell

Frank Craven

Dr. Brewster

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Synopsis

Count Alucard (Lon Chaney) comes out of a lake in his coffin and makes a Southern belle (Louise Allbritton) his bride.

Director: Robert Siodmak
Producer: Jack J. Gross
Screenwriter: Eric Taylor
Production Co: Universal Pictures
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 16, 2017
Runtime: 1h 18m

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