The film stars Carlos Villarías as Drácula, alongside Barry Norton, Pablo Alvarez Rubio, and Eduardo Arozamena.

In 2015, Dracula was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

With Seward's and Harker's help, Van Helsing seeks to trap Drácula, who outwits them and escapes with Eva by seizing control of a nurse's mind.

They follow Renfield into Carfax Abbey—an act which ends with Drácula killing his slave by strangulation, and then tossing him from a tall staircase.

[8] By 1928, the preferred approach to the foreign-language market was to develop more than one version of a film using the same script, sets and costumes of the English-language original, but employing different actors who could speak the languages such as French, Spanish or German.

[9] In February 1930, Universal announced that Paul Kohner would supervise numerous foreign-language productions, including several shot in Spanish.

[10] A Spanish-language version of Dracula was announced on October 1, 1930, with George Melford hired to direct, with actors Lupita Tovar and Carlos Villarías.

[12] After several years with Paramount, he began working at Universal often handling the directorial duties on Spanish version of studio films.

[12] The screenplay, which was adapted by Baltasar Fernández Cué from the English-language version by Garrett Fort, differs from the latter by expanding several dialogue exchanges, rearranging scenes and adding additional material with Renfield's flustered comic relief keeper, Martin.

[21] The print screened was incomplete, but sparked interest due to it being a largely unseen Universal horror film.

[21] A full print was found at the Cinemateca de Cuba [es] in Havana leading to several meetings to convince the archive to allow their copy of the film to be lent out for restoration.

[25] The review noted that George Melford's direction was "unusually good, except for some parts, which tend to be slightly episodic in form.

[21] Variety reviewed the video on its VHS release, commenting that Melford's film was "far less ambitious", noting fewer dolly and tracking shots.

[22] The review also commented that Melford's film felt more stage bound and its longer running time led to more "ponderous pauses and plodding dialog".

[13] The review also commented that Villaria's performance of Dracula was "the picture's most crucial weakness" and that "the performance underscores how much a personality piece the property is; like Sherlock Holmes, all his stage or movie renditions risk utter failure by its central casting" and that "Lugosi could convince anyone he was the King of the Vampires by simply striking a pose.

[28] Mark Deming of AllMovie commented that "Melford's compositions and camera movements give his version a more fluid grace and subtly sinister mood, and, if his film's pace is a bit slower, the result has an effectively eerie undercurrent that Browning's sometimes lacks".

[29] Deming found that "most of the cast is just as good as, if not better than, their English-speaking counterparts" specifically noting Carmen Guerrero as Lucia (Lucy) and Lupita Tovar as Eva (Mina), Eduardo Arozamena as Van Helsing, and Pablo Alvarez Rubio as Renfield.

[29] Paul Lenti of Variety also praised the female cast while finding that Villarias "lacks Lugosi's moth-to-the-flame allure and presence, his melodramatic pauses are almost comic".