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
Castle Dracula numerous movies like "Blood of Dracula's Castle" (1969) (with John Carradine as the butler and Alexander D'Arcy as Count Dracula) and other Dracula-based films. There are video games called "Dracula's Castle" (Game Pac Adventure), "Escape Dracula's Castle" (Fun Flash Games),"Restore Dracula's Castle" and "Devil's Castle Dracula" ("Akumajō Dracula"); the latter is best known to the west as "Castlevania". A prosecco produced by a descendant of the Bassarab dynasty bears the name Castle of Dracula. Castle Dracula Castle Dracula is the fictitious Transylvanian residence of Count Dracula, the vampire antagonist in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel "Dracula". In Stoker's narrative, Castle