The coffin lid slowly creaks opens and a hand snakes its way out.A possum lurks next to another coffin.The slamming sound of Dracula""s coffin lid signals hat he has risen.One of his undead brides also slowly opens her coffin with her hand.A gigantic bug, that looks like a wingless bee, crawls out of another coffin.The undead bride emerges by sitting upright within her coffin.A possum descends into a skeleton-filled coffin.The first glimpse of Dracula, a 500 year old vampire, is shocking.He is standing upright next to his coffin, wrapped tightly in an all-enveloping black cape.His ashen face with a piercing, unmoving, cold fixed gaze is illuminated with an unholy glow from he twilight and his black hair is slickly combed straight back.The film resembled, in part, aspects ofThe Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)and Hitchcock""sNorth by Northwest (1959), and various portions and themes ofClose Encounterswould be repeated in Spielberg""sE.He told Shrek that he must prove his love to her, by telling her "something hat only her true love would know.It received only two Academy Awards nominations (without Oscar wins), both in acting categories: Best Actress (Jennifer Jones with her fourth career nomination and third Best Actress nomination after winning forThe Song of Bernadette (1943)), and Best Supporting Actress (Lillian Gish with hersolecareer Oscar nomination).The ground-breaking, sometimes pretentiously-shot film featured an innovative jazzy (bluesy) score by Quincy Jones, with the title tune sung by Ray Charles.