Dracula’s Daughter (1936)

draculas-daughterAn early take on the guilt-ravaged, stick in the mud “reluctant vampire” character. So Dracula has a vampire daughter. She’s here and she’s queer (probably). She’s Gloria Holden, who plays the character with her eyes wide open most of the time, as if constantly startled. She also doesn’t want to be a vampire anymore and decides that maybe a psychiatrist (Otto Kruger) who will listen to her babble could help. Today this film is most interesting for how it gets away with some post-Hay’s Code sexiness and suggestions that the vampire Countess is a lesbian. The scene everybody talks about is the one where a leering Gloria Holden cons a pretty blonde girl into getting half-undressed in front of her before she uses the soft, doe-eyed lass as a blood Slurpee.