Universal Classic Monsters Icons of Horror Collection Vol. 1

Collection of four classic horrors. In 'Dracula' (1931) estate agent Renfield (Dwight Frye) travels to Transylvania to arrange the sale of an English mansion to nobleman Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi). When Renfield discovers that his host is a 500-year-old vampire, he is bitten and himself enslaved. After arriving in London, Dracula attempts to get his teeth into Mina Seward (Helen Chandler), an innocent maiden betrothed to Jonathan Harker (David Manners). Vampire expert Professor Van Helsing (Edward van Sloan) attempts to put a stop to the bloodsucking. In 'Frankenstein' (1931) scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) has become alienated from his friends and bride-to-be through his obsessive determination to create life. Frankenstein has created a monster out of body parts acquired by his dwarfish assistant, Fritz (Frye), and succeeds in giving it life during an electrical storm. However, due to a mistake by Fritz, the creature possesses the brain of a killer, and after Fritz torments it to breaking point Frankenstein's creation escapes and goes on the rampage, terrorising the local community. In 'The Wolf Man' (1941), having been educated at college in America, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr) returns to his father (Claude Rains)'s mansion in Wales. After meeting Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers) in the local village, he escorts her to the local fair. She tells him the local legend of the werewolf, but he laughs it off - even when gypsy fortune teller Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya) and her son Bela (Lugosi) also tell him to beware. Later in the evening Gwen's friend Jenny (Fay Helm) is attacked by a wild wolf. Larry rescues her, but is bitten in the process. When the next full moon appears, Larry finds himself transformed into the wolf man - a murderous creature which can only be destroyed by silver. Finally, in 'The Invisible Man' (1933) a bandaged stranger (Rains) arrives in the English village of Iping, taking rooms at the inn, and soon arouses the interest of the inquisitive locals. Angered that he is not allowed to conduct his experiments in peace, the stranger finally reveals his secret to the villagers, unwrapping his facial bindings to reveal... nothing. He is a scientist who has rendered himself invisible, and is now becoming a megalomaniac through the drugs he works with. Not satisfied with playing pranks on the locals, the invisible man's actions begin to take a murderous turn.