The 1931 Spanish-language Drácula will get its first film score. It was among the early "talkies," when filmmakers hadn't quite yet figured out how to incorporate music into their craft. One of the ...

Perhaps the fullest record we have of that era's heavy-handed government crackdown on horror movies comes from a 1933 ...

When Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein” hits theaters today, it will join an honorable lineage of Mary Shelley adaptations that began in 1910, continued throughout the silent era, and helped create ...

it follows the 1931 film Dracula in its deviations from the novel. It also parodies, among other films, The Fearless Vampire ...

One of the early talkies that came out in 1931 was the Spanish-language "Dracula." But just because it had sound didn't mean it had a score. After all, B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme music, wasn ...