The dashing, mysterious Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), after
hypnotizing a British soldier, Renfield (Dwight Frye), into his mindless
slave, travels to London and takes up residence in an old castle. Soon
Dracula begins to wreak havoc, sucking the blood of young women and
turning them into vampires. When he sets his sights
on Mina (Helen Chandler), the daughter of a prominent doctor,
vampire-hunter Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan) is enlisted to put a stop
to the count's never-ending bloodlust.
This iconic horror film follows the obsessed scientist Dr. Henry
Frankenstein (Colin Clive) as he attempts to create life by assembling a
creature from body parts of the deceased. Aided by his loyal misshapen
assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), Frankenstein succeeds in animating his
monster (Boris Karloff), but, confused and
traumatized, it escapes into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc.
Frankenstein searches for the elusive being, and eventually must
confront his tormented creation.
