Goofs

When Dracula is asking if Renfield has kept his trip to Transylvania secret, Renfield's valise jumps from Dracula's hands to the table. This is the result of a cut line.

When Dracula and Renfield first enter the castle bedroom, the door is closing by itself, hinged on the right side; after a scene shift the door is seen still closing (when it should have been shut by now), but is now hinged on the opposite side.

In the scene where Count Dracula first meets Dr. Van Helsing and companions, Mina has covered her neck with a scarf to conceal the vampire's bite-marks (which Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing examine). However, in all subsequent scenes, Mina (Helen Chandler) shows no marks or scars anywhere on her neck or throat.

When the innkeeper tells Renfield about Dracula, he holds his pipe in his left hand, except for one shot when it is in his right.

During shots of the ship sailing in route to London, the ship is experiencing very rough, rolling, and stormy seas, including both torrential rain and waves washing across the decks, and yet, when shots of Dracula are shown as he comes up from the lower decks, show a stable and completely dry setting.

On main title, Carl Laemmle's studio affiliation is listed as "Presient"

Joan Standing is wrongly credited as a maid, but she was actually playing the part of Briggs (a nurse). Moon Carroll played the uncredited part as a maid. She is the one who faints when Renfield is laughing very scarily.

When Renfield joins Dracula at the top of the stairs you can hear their footsteps clunking on a wooden set instead of the massive stone slabs they are supposed to be made of.

The barking and howling of the wolves is clearly audible as a man imitating them. There is also an acoustic reverberation to these vocals that tells the audience the recordings were done in a sound studio and not in the open air as Dracula's mountain castle would be.

In the novel, the character's name is Jonathan which may be shortened to Jon. But it is never shortened to John (with an h), because that is a difference name directly from the Bible (John the Baptist or John the Evangelist).

Yet the opening title sequence lists his name as John Harker, not Jonathan or Jon Harker. The movie is rather based on the stage play by John L. Balderstone and Hamilton Deane than the book. Balderstone, who adapted the original adaption by Deane for it's Broadway premiere, shortened and changed certain names such as Jonathan Harker's.

In the scene where Van Helsing is attempting to catch Dracula's lack of reflection in a mirror, there are visible chalk marks on the floor showing Bela Lugosi where to stand for the shot.

When the vampire bat hovers outside Lucy's window and flaps its wings, you can see the wires attached to the bat, pulling it up and down and causing the wings to flap.

The London girl selling flowers who is attacked by Count Dracula before he enters the concert hall can be seen moving while the policeman is blowing his whistle, even though she is supposedly dead.

Bats have wires visible.

The chemical apparatus on Van Helsing's desk includes a condenser with a flask and a retort connected to its cooling jacket; that is a nonsensical arrangement.

As the initial meeting between Renfield and Dracula is ending, Dracula says "I'll leave you ". It's doubtful that a Hungarian Count of the era would use the contracted form of "I will ".

In the initial bedroom scene at the castle, Dracula takes Renfield's hat, coat and cane and walks to the left of the fireplace and out the side door. This is the same door the Vampire Women enter from a few moments later and clearly is an exterior door. No explanation is given as to why Dracula takes Renfield's things outside.

Dracula is never shown actually exiting his coffin, although he is seen opening it and starting to get up. In a continuous shot, the camera moves away to focus on the window for a moment, and when it returns, Dracula is standing next to his coffin.

Pieces of cardboard placed on the lamps in bedrooms, apparently to shield lights for close-ups. It may have been intentional, but no one in the cast ever notices.

Part of a lit lamp can be seen hidden behind a chair as Dracula walks by it.

Dr. Seward's sanitarium is said to be both "near London" and "in Whitby." Whitby, on the Yorkshire coast in northern England, is nowhere near London.

In the first shots of Dracula's castle, a Virginia opossum, native to North America, is seen in a castle in Transylvania.

Armadillos (native to the Americas) are seen in Dracula's castle in Transylvania.

At one point, Dracula gets out of his Carfax Abbey coffin. In the background can be seen the great hall standing set for London After Midnight (1927). A still exists of Lugosi carrying Chandler down these stairs and the scene is in the Spanish version. However, later his coffin is in the basement.

When Dracula's brides converge on Renfield after he has passed out, Dracula enters and motions them away. As they are walking backwards, one bride steps on another bride's dress causing one bride to "catch" another. It is possible that she may have stepped on her own dress.

Dr. Seward threatens to have Renfield confined in a "strait-jacket". Although this is probably a translation convention for the American audience rather than an unintentional slip, a British doctor would say "strait-waistcoat," which is what he says in Bram Stoker's novel and other filmed enactions of this scene.

Dracula sleeps on a bed of his own Transylvanian dirt. But whenever he rises, he is perfectly groomed, and his silk cape has nary as speck of dirt on it.