The need to turn Dracula into a melodramatic tale of mystery taking place indoors was the reason for the costuming of Dracula in evening dress and opera cloak, making him look like the sinister hypnotists, seducers and evil aristocrats of the Victorian theatre. Browning’s Dracula is a traditional Hollywood production, emphasizing character development, romance and the final triumph over the menace of the foreign other. It also establishes a realistic framework for the novel’s story, as the vampire is to be taken real. What was new about the film was sound. It was the first talking picture based on Bram Stoker's novel, and somehow Count Dracula was more fearsome when you could hear him--not an inhuman monster, but a human one, whose painfully