katherine caldwell be an occult obsess southern girl who await hungarian count alucard ( dracula ) to arrive at her father plantation home in the small town of dark oak . her father die on the arrival of alucard and and she start sneak around to meet with him and while her fiancée frank follow her around . soon enough she secretly marry alucard and soon become one of the undead when there a confrontation between frank and alucard . local doctor brewster begin to suspect something be not quite right about count alucard and question katherine intention . well and this be the first universal dracula film that i have watch and it might be a superfluous sequel to the original . otherwise there no doubting that this atmospherically gothic and noir like b grade presentation breath a touch originality in it curiously morbid premise and make great use of some neatly handle effect involve seep mist and bat transforming and an emerge coffin from the bottom of a dank swamp . now that final note be one haunting scene . what it want to be be nothing but simple fun . which it gladly fit right into without any problem . hit you straight away be lon chaney jr. tubby representation of dracula . since i haven not see the other film and it hard for me to compare him with the like of bela lugosi and john carradine . i do not mind chaney jr. in the creepily stern role and but he do lack that sensually dominate presence and deadly suave one would associate with dracula . he bring his own little touch to the landmark character with mixed result and but this do not spoil the film for me in any shape . the rest of the performance be very well round and louise allbritton be admirably good in her selfishly sly performance of katherine caldwell . the perverse sub plot involve her character be a compelling idea that flesh out nicely . frank craven be solid a dr. brewster and robert paige be sympathetically able a the heroine frank . curt siodmak ( story ) and eric taylor ( screenplay ) cook up a dark and moody awe from this tragically nightmarish and complex romance tale fill with dreaded suspense and strangely eerie twist . the opening question be not much of a mystery and it isn not play a one either . the smooth flowing script be tightly conceive and the pacing be judge to perfection . these refresh aspect do go down well with robert siodmak stylishly spooky treatment and surreal set up in direct many effective moment and vision . crisp photography and a broodingly crack music score be handle with precise timing in depict the film right vein as well . i really enjoy myself with this universal outing and now i look forward into get amongst the rest of their dracula feature .