 Dracula 's Daughter was the last in the first cycle of Universal Horror films that reached back into the 1920s . Publicly , Universal said it was because a British ban on horror films would cut too deeply into the revenue such films could generate . In truth , the cycle was suspended because , just before filming on Dracula 's Daughter had wrapped , the Laemmle family had lost control of Universal . Because of cost overruns on a number of pictures , Junior Laemmle was forced to borrow $ 1 @,@ 000 @,@ 000 on November 1 , 1935 . The money came from J. Cheever Cowdin , head of the Standard Capital Corporation , and from Charles R. Rogers . When the loan was called in March of the following year , Universal was unable to repay it . Standard assumed control of the studio on March 4 , 1936 and Rogers replaced Junior as head of production . Rogers did not like horror films and he shut down production on them following the release of Dracula 's Daughter to focus on fare like Deanna Durbin musicals . Universal would not return to the horror genre for three years , when it released Son of Frankenstein in 1939 . 
