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It features over 700 artefacts and photos from the Lugosi family archives, as a foreword by Bela Lugosi, Jr., an afterword by Lugosi historian Dr Gary Rhodes, and a section on Lugosi's relationship with Ed Wood, with interviews between Cremer and Wood, interviews with Lillian Lugosi Donlevy, Lugosi's wife of 20 years, as well as his closest Hungarian[...]

More than almost any other figure in this line, they worked very, very closely with the late Bela Lugosi's estate to get the likeness perfect All of this line has been perfect so far, but that Bela face…chilling, doesn't matter if it is in black and white or color Check it out below. Credit NECA Dracula Is[...]

Releasing as part of their Universal Monsters figure line, this new 6" releases bring back the performance of Bela Lugosi The Dracula Deluxe Set gives Universal Monsters fans the comeback of the original Count with great detail and 20 points of articulation He is packed in a fun windowed boxed set as well, which includes[...]

Heads up, horror fans – Heritage Auctions has a lot full of classic monster movie memorabilia, including original scripts from Tod Browning's Dracula, the Wolf Man (covered in a separate post by Jeremy Konrad), Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, and even a few pieces from Bela Lugosi's personal collection: a Dracula statuette and a souvenir[...]

as the Wolf Man from The Wolf Man (1941), Boris Karloff as The Mummy (1932), and Bela Lugosi as the Count in Dracula (1931) Frankenstein's Monster is already fully revealed and up for preorder, with teaser images for The Mummy and The Wolf Man shown Check out the images below, and preorder the first figure[...]

In 1931, Bela Lugosi obtained the on-screen performance role of Count Dracula The Hungarian actor's fame begins here in Count Dracula, directed by Tod Browning This vampire film is a cinema classic, and it only created a bigger interest for vampires since his debut with a massive slew of films ever since Infinite Studios is[...]

Almost never up for purchase these days, this very awesome portrait of Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula is currently up for auction at Heritage Auctions It is part of Dallas Auction #7234, running this week Currently, this amazing piece is sitting at $2500, a steal There are two days left in the bidding, and this[...]

The publisher spotlighted Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi with Lynne Lugosi Sparks involved, as well as the returning cult classic Trick 'R Treat reissued in hardcover with early art from Saga superstar Fiona Staples. Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi cover Credit: Legendary Comics Comic-Con@Home panel. Comics artist and editor Kerry Gammill spoke on the history of Bram Stoker's Dracula Starring[...]

This week we wrap up our retrospective dedicated to the films of Bela Lugosi, this time with Lugosi's performance as a character that David Skal called "Dracula in all but name," vampire Armand Tesla in the 1943 Columbia picture The Return of the Vampire. Tune in next week as the Castle of Horror Podcast returns to[...]

The Castle team wraps up 2018 with one more excellent performance from our look at the often-unappreciated Bela Lugosi For this episode we look at The Raven, a 1935 thriller that again teamed up Lugosi and Boris Karloff.   By this time, just four years after Dracula, Lugosi's star at universal was fading, while the always-approachable Karloff[...]

We talk about the film and why shorter films can succeed where longer ones don't.   Listen here: http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/6f142deca77f468b96afa07d21684af0/traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/black_cat_34.mp3 Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_azc1uHRq8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Black Cat (1934): The Bela Lugosi Retrospective (Podcast/Talk/Reviews) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_azc1uHRq8) Check out the Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1yyr5UfVWEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Black Cat[...]

This week we continue our retrospective dedicated to the films of Bela Lugosi, this time with Lugosi's mysterious performance in the 1932 Universal film Murders in the Rue Morgue. Rue Morgue is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film, very loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Pre-Code and how:[...]

This week we kick off a retrospective dedicated to the films of Bela Lugosi, beginning with Lugosi's iconic star turn in the 1931 Dracula. This is a supersized discussion where we dive deep into the casting of Lugosi, the oddness of Lugosi's performance, and the fealty of the movie (or not) to the book– and whether[...]