This is not a drill. Do not adjust your dial. There is a cinema re-release event you have to know about. You know that great Universal version of Dracula? You know, the Todd Browning directed, Bela Lugosi starring, black and white classic from 1931? Yeah, that's not the good version of Dracula from 1931.
The good version of Drácula was shot on the same set, only at night and in Spanish. Essentially, the English-language screenplay was adapted to Spanish by Baltasar Fernández Cué and directed by George Melford and Enrique Tovar Ávalos. The difference is pacing, imagery, and a dream-like tone that better fits the flirting with insanity style of Bram Stoker's novel.
So what's the big news? Turner Classic Movies is doing a double-billing of Dracula and Drácula for two nights only in select theaters.
So, you know, if you're not on the creative team for two live theater events going off within two weeks of those screenings, make your way to the theater for a really unexpected special event. You'll be amazed by how these two films on the same set with the same screenplay are so wildly different.
And believe me, if I can fit it into my schedule, I will. These films are gorgeous and just as terrifying in 2015.
