My first introduction to the horror genre came when I was probably about eight years old. I had pestered my mother for days to let me stay up past my bedtime, on a school night, to watch Dracula on television. This was the classic movie with Bela Lugosi in the lead role. I barely remember anything after the first fifteen or twenty minutes, because, after that, I begged for her to turn it off.
Unlike movies of today that rely on graphic violence or a sappy storyline involving star-crossed lovers , the original Dracula exploited the audience's imagination and more...
