Okay, here is what I am excluding from this one: Sagas and series. Sagas are long chains of movies that tell an overarching storyline. Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, ect. I'm not going to include those because it's impossible to judge each chapter fairly and putting 3-7 movies against one isn't a fair match up. Series are movies that get sequel after sequel but without the fore planing of a saga. So that is MOST of the movies I watch really. What do I have left? Well a movie I have watched countless times, that is universally considered a classic, and gave birth to my favorite genre. And it never really had a technical sequel, though it spawned alot of wannabes.
The original 1931 Dracula for universal studios. Horror movies had existed in the silent era (indeed many of my favorites are silent) but Dracula launched a new age of Horror films proper, to american audiences, in sound, and with clear and unmistakable supernatural forces. Bela Lugosi gives the performance of a life time as Dracula, and countless motifs of gothic horror are established. In my mind the greatest horror film of all time.
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