Blu-ray Review Mark of the Vampire – Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

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A former actor with experience in vaudeville and the carnival and circus circuit, Tod Browning became a director during the Silent Era and would become one of the first great directors of the burgeoning horror film genre (even being dubbed by the trade papers of his day as “the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema”). He rose to fame with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1920’s for several films starring the “Man of a Thousand Faces” Lon Chaney, including The Unholy Three (1925), the holy grail of lost silent films London After Midnight (1927) and The Unknown (also 1927). Following Chaney’s death in 1930, Browning would work with Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi on what would become the first modern American horror film of the sound era, Dracula (1931); the two would reunite four years later on Mark of the Vampire. Previously released on DVD as part of the Hollywood Legends of Horror boxset by Warner Bros., the...

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