Dracula in popular culture Balderston (see below); it starred Bela Lugosi as Dracula and Edward Van Sloan as Van Helsing, both of whom had originated their respective roles on the stage in the aforementioned play, along with Helen Chandler as Mina and Dwight Frye as Renfield. Directed by Tod Browning, it is one of the most famous versions of the story and is widely credited with initiating the Universal horror film series of the 1930s and ‘40s. The 1931 Dracula film was an inductee of the 2000 National Film Registry list. The films had music only during the opening (the famous main theme from
Blood of Dracula Blood of Dracula Blood of Dracula (UK title: Blood Is My Heritage) is a horror film starring Sandra Harrison, Louise Lewis and Gail Ganley, released by American International Pictures (AIP) in November 1957. It is one of two follow-up films to AIP's box office hit "I Was a Teenage Werewolf". Despite the title, the film has nothing to do with either Dracula or his blood. "Blood of Dracula" was released theatrically in 1957 on a double feature with "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein." The film is in black-and-white. Six weeks after the death of her mother, Nancy Perkins' father (Thomas