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Tim Burton digs supernatural stories: the goth-comic ghost tale of "Beetlejuice," the headless killer from the great beyond in "Sleepy Hollow," the undead love story of "Corpse Bride." In a way, Burton knows vampires too, resurrecting Bela Lugosi - the definitive cinematic Count Dracula - in the Oscar-winning biopic "Ed Wood." All of this has made ...

If you're thinking of staying safely indoors this Halloween, writer and vampire expert Kevin Jackson has selected the finest and most frightening bloodsucking stories to curl up with A rich vein of storytelling ... Bela Lugosi as Dracula.

The New Beverly Cinema returns to the thrilling days of Universal horror films tonight with 1931's "Dracula," starring Bela Lugosi, and 1935's "Bride of Frankenstein," directed by James Whale.

The 1931 Dracula may not be the most artistic movie about vampires ever made, but it successfully maintains a creepy atmosphere throughout as it creates a world of its own that feels strangely organic.

When reviewing a vampire novel, it's probably overkill to hint at somebody rolling in his grave.

2: MONSTER FROM THE SURF What's it about? It's about ninety minutes too long! Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, this washed-up wreckage will make you wanna drown yourself.

And with authors from Anne Rice and Charlaine Harris to Stephen King and Poppy Z. Brite having crafted their own, sometimes lurid, reworkings of the vampire legend, Stoker said he knew that the new book couldn't just be a straight continuation of the first.

Halloween is the perfect time to enjoy classic horror films. These movies make great ambience enhancers during your annual costume party, but they're also good choices for an October evening's main entertainment.

Stars Bela Lugosi. $7-$12. 1 and 9:30 p.m. Sat., Oct. 31. Plaza Theatre, 1049 Ponce de Leon Ave.

Shocking. Horrifying. Ghastly. Terrifying. Yes, it's time to succumb to Hitchcock, Michael Myers, a head-turning Linda Blair, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and bloodthirsty zombies who deliciously deliver paranoia, death, drama and madness in chilling fashion.

As long as there have been midnight movies, there have been double features. Often at drive-ins, these held their strongest appeal within the horror genre.

"The horror! The horror!" If you've ever read Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," you know those are the last words of the crazy character Kurtz before meeting his bitter end.

Not Quite Classic: But the Universal Horror Classic Movie Archive manages to offer up some fun, occasionally inventive pieces Josef Braun / josef@vueweekly.com Universal Horror Classic Movie Archive collects five of the studio's genre pieces spanning the years 1941 '43. It's an interesting transitional period if you consider that Universal's golden ...

Compared to the neck-biting ecstacies of Twilight and True Blood , the vampires of Hollywood's past are downright chaste.

For true vampire devotees, a must-see is country's Transylvania region.A One of the most authentic locations is Bran Castle , Dracula's birthplace, Sighisoara, and Dracula's burial grounds at the Snagov Monastery are also popular sites, especially during Halloween time.

Goths everywhere may still argue whether Bela Lugosi is indeed dead, or possibly undead, but certainly the man who originally brought Count Dracula to theater audiences way back when will be there in spirit when the Lake City Playhouse stages "Dracula" starting Thursday.

Shelly Duvall's character has an up close look at what happens when a writer suffers from an extreme case of cabin fever in "The Shining." Seventy-eight years after Bela Lugosi spooked the screen, Halloween is the supernatural spirit you just can't kill.

Without the Philip Glass score to class it up, the 1931 Bela Lugosi vehicle Dracula would be an exercise in almost pure camp, a low-budget curiosity from the early-talking-picture era more fondly remembered than experienced.

Since its 1922 debut, F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" has remained the prototype for all notable vampire thrillers that aspire to be taken seriously as imaginative inducements to apprehension.

For nearly as long as there have been motion pictures, there have been people scaring themselves with said motion pictures.