although lon chaney count alucard be the character the movie be title for and it louise allbritton a the count not so faithful bride who be the real star here . in fact and i be more than a bit surprised at how little lon seem to be in this picture or how rarely he open his mouth and though i guess it doesn not take a lot of see chaney on screen to notice how ill suit he be at portray a hungarian count while much less a count who be suppose to be from the same gene pool a bela lugosi . and yet and despite the miscasting of the male vampire and son of drac still turn out to be a very good old school horror . certainly one of the best of universal second cycle and and a film that in no way deserve the bad reputation it receive over the year . even though chaney wasn not the world most convincing hungarian and his performance be not a washout . he have quite a few effective moment and particularly when it come to display the supernatural strength of the undead . louise allbritton and frank craven and j. edward bromberg all do tremendous work in this picture and i have to give prop to robert paige for break from the usual dull a dishwater pattern that one normally see from the romantic male lead in these old horror ( john harker anyone ) . imagine a guy you do not mind see defeat the monster instead of the opposite . and to top it all off and the end be not the usual formula of two photogenic people walk off into the sunset . son of dracula be a very good vampire thriller .