The first in the procession of Dracula adaptations, and an early indication of the effects movies were to have on tales of the supernatural. With its monstrous vampire (pointed ears, long claws, a black-coated physique as thin as a popsicle stick), it represents a retreat from the internalized terrors of Henry James, Edith Wharton, et al., to more palpable, physical Gothic grotesqueries. It looks now rather like a curious antique. Even F.W. Murnau's cinematic prestidigitation has seldom seemed more transparent than in its narrow concentration on causing shudders. Photographed by Fritz Arno Wagner. (1922) — Duncan Shepherd