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I'd forgotten about that extra. I was thinking that perhaps I have inaccurately criticized the BFI , as back in 87 I saw a dye transfer print of Hammer's DRACULA from the BFI at MOMA as part of their British Cinema series that had very robust colors. So perhaps the actual BFI restoration had the...

Maybe the people doing the color timing at the BFI thought that the subject matter--the draining of blood--required an equally bloodless color scheme. But yes, I am very hopeful the new Blu-ray from Warners will look the way it did in a theater, with robust colors.

Ah, didn't know that. I have the Warner Horror Classics set.

I wholeheartedly agree. My memory of seeing a BFI dye-transfer Technicolor print at MOMA in the mid 1980's is that the color temperature was a whole lot warmer, so those colored lights of red and blue that ripple across the walls of the Count's dinning room in the beginning of the film were way...