Episode 48: Dracula (1931) & Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

About this episode

This episode explores the vampire genre through the films Dracula (1931) and Count Yorga, Vampire (1970).

Welcome to episode 48 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts. This week after a short break and several episodes of ambiguity, we are exploring the much more direct and explicitly supernatural world of the vampire, with one movie that started the Universal monster series in the 1930s and another which reinvigorated vampire mythology at the start of the 1970s. First, we have Dracula from 1931, directed ...

People in this episode

Host: Craig Johnson

Topics covered

• vampires
• film history
• horror movies
• Universal monsters
• vampire mythology

Keywords

• Dracula
• Count Yorga
• vampire films
• horror
• Universal monsters
• film reviews

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Universal

Books & works: Dracula, Count Yorga, Vampire

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