Dracula's Daughter/Son of Dracula 1936 Horror Movie Review

Dracula’s Daughter:  Picking up where Dracula left off, Dr. Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan), thinking he has rid London of all vampires, is instead arrested for murder. Meanwhile, the beautiful and mysterious Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden) appears in London seeking the understanding Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger), Von Helsing’s psychiatrist. A mysterious sequence of events leads Von Helsing and Garth to set off to Transylvania after the elusive countess and to rescue Garth’s beautiful fiancee (Marguerite Churchill) in this classic thriller.  Son of Dracula:  Lon Chaney, Jr. dons a cape as Count Alucard (that’s Dracula spelled backward), the bloodthirsty son of the famous Transylvanian vampire. And when a beautiful Southern girl, Katherine (Louise Allbriton), invites him to the U.S., they both set out to satisfy their unquenchable thirst for human blood with nocturnal killings of unsuspecting neighbors and relatives. Despite the heroic efforts of her fiance, Robert Paige, Katherine falls under the spell of the evel Count in Son of Dracula, director Robert Siodmak’s excursion into the horror genre.