Tod Browning’s 1931 adaptation of Dracula is the granddaddy of them all, the film the launched the Classic Monster films of Universal. The Universal cinematic universe if you will. I try not to judge these old films by modern standards or how a film has come to be perceived over the decades. I attempt, as much as possible, to put myself in the mind-set of the time period it was released; basically to see it on its own merits and not its legacy. But sometimes this is simply not possible. Sometimes a film, a portrayal or a style has