Hello everybody, just a quick announcement to say that excitingly, we are going to be

in London for a special live podcast event as part of Sundance Film Festival in London.

On Saturday the 11th of June at 7pm, if you are in London or within reach of London,

then please come along and watch a very special live episode being recorded in front of an

audience and we've got some very special guests, including some filmmakers who have got some

incredible new horror films that are premiering at Sundance that week. It's going to be a very

special event and there's going to be drinks in the bar afterwards. I would love to meet some of

you guys and hang out with some of you as well. So if you fancy coming to be involved in a rare

live podcast recording of the evolution of horror and you are in London or within reach of London,

then grab yourself a ticket. Just head over to evolutionofhorror.com forward slash Sundance.

That's evolutionofhorror.com forward slash Sundance which should redirect you straight to the

ticket page and I will link all of the details to this in the show notes.

In 1922, 100 years ago, German director F. W. Murnell made what was arguably the first screen

adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. He didn't have permission to adapt it legally so changed many of

the character names and a few of the story beats. It being a silent film also meant that it lost much

of the wordy dialogue from the novel and stripped the story back to rely more on striking German

expressionist visuals and a truly terrifying monster in the form of count or look.

Similarly, a decade later, Danish director Carl Theodore Dreyer decided to make his own vampire

movie. Like Nosferatu, he relied less on dialogue and conventional narratives and more on striking,

terrifying, nightmare-ish visuals. To this day, both of the strange European art house nightmares

remain two of the boldest and most terrifying vampire movies ever made.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the vampire as we discuss Carl Theodore Dreyer's

...