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Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys. In this episode we’re talking about 1931’s Dracula and 1954’s Creature From The Black Lagoon. Off the top we apologize for the audio issue/sound quality.

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We start by talking about what we’ve done involving horror recently. We talk about Random Acts Of Violence, Liam talks about watching the original The Amityville Horror for the first time recently as well as watching Children Of The Night and The Borrower. Justin talks about watching Night Of The Living Dead at the Mahoning Drive In.

Up first is Dracula. We briefly talk about Tod Browning’s body of work including the famous lost film London After Midnight. We talk about the phenomenon of a large amount of people having read the book due to schools assigning it to students while not having seen the film, and how the film is based more on the stage production of the book than the book itself.

We talk about strange unorthodox structure of the source material, the concept of sexuality and shame in the film, and Bela Lugosi’s status as a somewhat washed up sex symbol. We go off on a brief tangent on how the film differs from Coppola’s version, in that Coppola’s version dives way deep into Dracula’s backstory.

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