In Mark of the Vampire, it looks like a pair of vampires have resurfaced to commit murders in a village. But, there’s more going on than meets the eye …
Mark of the Vampire (1935) starring Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi, Elizabeth Allan, Lionel Atwill
In short, Mark of the Vampire is an excellent movie that’s hard to review. At first, it looks like a father and daughter vampire couple have returned, after a long time, to feed on the villagers. And it’s very creepy, and well done. Bela Lugosi does a good job recreating his Dracula role here. But there’s something else going on — and revealing that would spoil the movie.
I’ll simply say that the depiction of the vampires are very well done, as are the trio of humans who are working together to stop them. But, as I say, there’s something else going on as well, that’s slowly revealed.
Product Description
In a remote village in Central Europe, a nobleman’s body is found drained of it’s blood and with two small punctures on the neck-the Mark of the Vampire. An ancient terror, a horror that won’t die, haunts the village: the long undead Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) and his daughter, Luna (Carroll Borland), rule the night. But the vampires have not fed on the people of the village for a very long time. Now, with the help of an expert in the occult, Professor Zelen (Lionel Barrymore), and local Baron Otto (Jean Hersholt), police inspector Neumann (Lionel Atwill) unearths a mystery far stranger and more terrifying than anyone could have imagined!
Cast of characters
- Lionel Barrymore (The Devil-Doll) … Professor Zelin
- Elizabeth Allan (The Haunted Strangler) … Irena Borotyn
- Bela Lugosi (The Devil Bat) … Count Mora
- Lionel Atwill (Ghost of Frankenstein) … Inspector Neumann
- Jean Hersholt (Marooned 1969) … Baron Otto
- Henry Wadsworth (Evelyn Prentice) … Fedor Vincente
- Donald Meek (Blondie Takes a Vacation) … Dr. Doskil
- Jessie Ralph (Double Wedding) … Midwife
- Ivan F. Simpson (This Land Is Mine) … Jan
- Franklyn Ardell (Palooka) … Chauffeur
- Leila Bennett … Maria
- June Gittelson (Lost in the Stratosphere) … Annie
- Carroll Borland … Luna (as Carol Borland)
- Holmes Herbert (The Invisible Man) … Sir Karell Borotyn
- Michael Visaroff (Yolanda and the Thief) … Innkeeper