Director Griffith""s original budget of $40,000 (expanded o $60,000) quickly ballooned, so Griffith appealed to businessmen and other investors to help finance the film - that eventually cost $110,000! The propagandistic film was one of the biggest box-office money-makers in the history of film, partly due to its exorbitant charge of $2 per ticket - unheard of at the time.Rats scurry about and wolves howl.Two of Dracula""s three undead brides glide silently along.[A vampire is a reanimated corpse that feeds off he blood of the living, turning victims into vampires.Graham ordered latent prints of Mrs.Leeds"" eyes, even her corneas.In an Atlanta police department briefing, the subject""s teeth (with a unique bite signature) were observed - derived from bite marks on Mrs.Bats soar outside the windows and there are other scurrying sounds inside, suggesting menace.The dwarfed figure of Renfield stands at the bottom of the wide and long stone staircase of the castle.