Spike vs. Dracula village and led the angry mob to the mansion. He concludes the letter with, "P.S.: You still owe me eleven pounds." In October 1934, Darla reads a letter from Spike. Darla has chosen to remain in Germany while Spike and Drusilla visit America. In the letter, Spike says that they travelled to Los Angeles, where they ran into Dracula, now world-famous as a result of the movie based on him. In L.A., Spike takes Drusilla to a theatre showing a stage version of "Dracula" starring Béla Lugosi himself. Drusilla points out that they've met the real Dracula, but Spike argues
The Brides of Dracula is nothing new or imaginative about it." "Variety" called the film "technically well-made" but thought the script "adds little to the Dracula legend and follows formula horror gimmicks," and that "it would have been considerably more scary if it had been filmed in old-fashioned black and white." "Harrison's Reports" wrote that Martita Hunt and Freda Jackson were "excellent" in the film and the direction and photography were "first class," but that it was "not overly frightening." "The Brides of Dracula" holds a score of 71% on Rotten Tomatoes. The famous Spanish cult film director Jesus Franco credits this film as