Dracula's Daughter (1936) (2025)

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• Review by sydney ★★★★ 5

  it's as if they wrote a half-assed script, filled it with perfectly fine actors, then cast gloria holden without realizing she would give such an incredible performance whose depth was so far beyond what the movie was prepared to give her to do that they just let her drift off alone onto some higher plane, surrounded her with fog and shadows, and hoped nobody would notice the rest of the movie couldn't catch up - in a way it worked, she truly seems like the loneliest woman in the world.

• Review by 𝔑𝔬𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔞 🌙 ★★★★★ 1

  we stan a tragically repressed lesbian goth queen

• Review by The Voluptuous Horror of Sally Jane Black ★★★★

  The desperation to fit in, to be normal, to be straight... Here's where we challenge the conception that reviewing films from a political lens demands older films fit today's standards (ignoring everything wrong with that assumption to do so): yesteryear's status quo can sometimes capture something inadvertently. It's not about measuring something by anachronistic standards (my standards derive from Marx and Lenin, who were old hat by 1936, anyway). It's about understanding these films through a lens of the people they left out.

  This film, however, accidentally captures a very real feeling, one that sadly lingers today. Kat has thoroughly captured the details here, but suffice to say that the closet drives queer people even 80 years later to wish…

• Review by Mario 🎃 ★★★½

  Omg the Twilight mention???
  No Bela Lugosi no party tho.
  Vampires Ranked

• Review by comrade_yui ★★ 5

  does the vampiric curse inherently make you bisexual, or are only bisexual people allowed to be turned into vampires?

• Review by corey👻 ★★★ 2

  utterly obsessed with the dark and spooky fog-shrouded sets. oh to live in draculas castle with vampire gloria holden 🩸🧛‍♀️

• Review by JayShmoney ★★ 2

  Ya’ll just giving this a high rating cause it has one lesbian scene

• Review by mikey v ★★★½

  y’all weren’t joking when you said this was gay

• Review by alanis ㅤ󠀠󠀠󠀠 ★★★½

  she was beautiful when she died. a hundred years ago. ୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆

  ౨ i loved how sensitive and melancholic zaleska’s scenes were! ♡ i just wished the entire film had that same vibe — more gothic and less overly dramatic, because sometimes it was too bright and lively for me.

  i loved zaleska so much! ♡ she stole the scene every time she appeared. i just wish there were more scenes of her. the ones we got weren’t enough :’)

  this is definitely more of a drama than a horror movie. not gonna lie, i was expecting a bit more, but it’s not a bad film, just not as enjoyable as i thought it would be. but overall this film is a nice experience. ৎ

  —it’s finally halloween month yay ♱

• Review by Ian West ★★★★ 1

  The story picks up moments after 1931’s Dracula,with a returning Edward Van Sloan hovering over the staked hearted corpse from the first film.... only to get arrested for murder IMMEDIATELY lololol. Gloria Holden is damn good asCountess Marya Zaleska, daughter of the infamous count who turns to psychology in search of a cure for her vampirism, but in the mean time she ends up cruising the streets at night and in the process pissing off her manservant, Sandor (Good! I despised his character). There’s all kinds of things going on in this film.

  I’ve always had a liking for Dracula’s Daughter and Son of Dracula, and if you do a simple google search you’ll find a ton of interesting things about this fascinating 1936 movie!The blu in the new Draculacollection looks great and I hope Universal continues to release these sets! Now all I need is this glorious movie poster hanging on my wall!

• Review by Adam Putra ★★★ 1

  "i never drink... wine." that lesbian bloodsucker even agrees that women taste better

• Review by The Horror of Marna Larsen ★★★★ 11

  Really, if you just read this as a universal monster movie that maybe didn't need to happen because man, were they reaching then it's just an annoying assault of 30/40's caper comedy in entirely the wrong movie - that bit about tying a bow tie. Tedious. Read as gay horror, this context becomes even more alienating and strange - the constant jocular humor while Gloria Holden just glides right through it. She is completely alone. People treat her like another running gag clumsy female character there to accommodate the other male characters - actually, it is more chilling when no one notices that she is 'strange.' In fact, they dismiss her as a time period romantic comedy love interest -…