The Gist: A Transylvanian count heads to England with his eyes on a woman who he wants to turn into his vampire bride.
Female Vampire Factor: There is 4.5 in the film. First Dracula has his original briedes aka the 3 sisters who go to feed on Renfield but he drives them away.
Then comes the .5 as you technically do see a vampire Lucy wandering the night but any mention of her being a vampire is yada yada'd off with an orderly reading about it in a newspaper.
And finally, you have Mina who attempts to bite Jonathon once she's under Dracula's spell.
Final Opinion: This is the original which is pretty much it's selling point in seeing where the Dracula and vampire story began with Bella Lagosi being the definitive count in movie history.
With that being said the film compared to future iterations (and even an ideration made at the same time in the same studio) is very tame and thanks to the Hays code which heavily censored Hollywood films in the 1930's either cuts out anything that could be considered sexual or horrific or as is seen above vampire attacks being dumbed down to just them staring at their victims with the screen fading before anything happens with scenes following telling you that's what happened.
Just for being the first to put a version of female vampirism on film I'll give it two stars automatically but in execution I can only give it one more for a total Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 stars. The Spanish version showed us that it wasn't the filmmaker giving into the sensibilities of the viewing public as to why the film is as brief and censored as it was. It was politics and religion trying to force Hollwood into putting on film what they wanted the world to believe was the sensibility of the viewing public. A lie that still affects the way we view the past today.
