The Scream Factory - Mark of the Vampire (1935)

About this episode

Derek Lajeunesse explores the 1935 horror film Mark of the Vampire, directed by Tod Browning, in a Halloween special episode.

Happy Halloween! We interrupt our regularly scheduled Technicolored programming on the Dream Factory, sorry I mean the SCREAM FACTORY, for a seasonal change of pace. I travel back to MGM in 1935, a place of glitter and glamour but not many ghouls, to take a bite out of the horror film Mark of the Vampire. Hollywood was horror movie crazy at this time and MGM jumped on the bandwagon resulting in the atmospheric but messy Mark of the Vampire directed by the legendary Tod Browning. F...

People in this episode

Host: Derek Lajeunesse

Topics covered

• horror film
• MGM
• 1935 cinema
• Mark of the Vampire
• Halloween
• film history

Keywords

• Mark of the Vampire
• Tod Browning
• MGM
• horror film
• 1935
• Halloween
• film history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MGM

Books & works: Mark of the Vampire

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