Dracula’s Daughter (1936)

Beginning immediately where the events of Dracula left off, Dracula’s daughter Gloria Holden steals her father’s body and begins her quest to remove the vampiric curse from her person. Most of the acting and writing holds up to 1930s B-film standards, including two bungling British detectives and a weird romance between the doctor Holden hires to help her and his shrill secretary. But it has great atmosphere and Holden is a sight to behold. She’s equal parts vulnerable and tortured while also maintaining a completely commanding presence. Attempts to reign in her sexuality, too overt even by Pre-Code standards, were incapable of smothering her raw sensuality or Sapphic undertones.