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The Return of the Vampire (1944)

Horror | 69 minutes
2,74 17 votes

Genre: Horror

Duration: 69 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Lew Landers

Stars: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort and Nina Foch

IMDb score: 6,2 (3.223)

Releasedate: 11 November 1943

The Return of the Vampire plot

"The Vampire's Prey... a Beautiful Girl! Compelled to follow his commands! The blood of her fiancé on his hands! How can she escape the vampire?"

A British family is constantly harassed by a vampire, until they suddenly find a way to take out the monster. Unfortunately, they are not allowed to rest, because at the start of the Second World War, the bombs of the Nazis awaken a bloodthirsty monster from its sleep.

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Actors and actresses

Armand Tesla

Nicki Saunders

John Ainsley

Andreas Obry

Lady Jane Ainsley

Sir Frederick Fleet

Elsa Walter - Governess

Dr. Walter Saunders

Detective Lynch

Detective Gannett

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mrklm

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Screenwriter Griffin Jay manages to combine elements of Dracula and The Wolf Man into a story set during World War II. Bela Lugosi's presence lends considerable credibility to the role of the 200-year-old vampire Armand Tesla, a Romanian scientist researching vampires, who comes to life when his grave is uncovered during a German air raid and two gravediggers remove the stake through his heart. Under the pseudonym Dr. Hugo Bruckner, he decides to take revenge on the family who (not entirely coincidentally) killed him in 1918.

This horror film can't hold a candle to the Universal classics it references. The mediocre score and special effects are to blame, as are the somewhat clumsy attempts at humor. Lugosi saves the film, even if we only hear him. Those scenes contain a tension that rivals Dracula, but it takes more than a rock-solid Lugosi to make this film a classic. Fans of this horror icon should definitely see this film, however.

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Roger Thornhill

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Not a whole lot new compared to, say, the original Dracula, except for the fact that there’s now a Wolf-Man-like creature and the London Blitz thrown into the mix. I can’t share the enthusiasm of previous users for Bela Lugosi, because I find him to be a very limited actor, and if I see too many films with his mannerisms in a row, he even becomes laughable, but the film itself looks good, Nina Foch even better (crazy to think that that vulnerable girl could play a worldly woman so convincingly in An American in Paris eight years later) and Matt Willis gives his Andreas real pathos, so that in the end I still come close to a passing grade.

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