Bram Stoker's Dracula (Collector's Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Aubry
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Winona RyderDirector: Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Aubry
Brand: Sony
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Anne Mason
Producer: Charles Mulvehill
Producer: Fred Fuchs
Writer: Bram Stoker
Writer: James V. Hart
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Bulgarian (Original Language); English (Original Language); Greek (Original Language); Romanian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Portuguese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Bram Stoker's Dracula (Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Not a Bad Vamp Tale!
Summary: 3 Stars
Bram Stoker' Dracula
I recall when this first came out, it was billed as "a love story."
Well, I don't know about that.
I loved the scripted story based on Stoker's novel, Dracula, with Bela Lugosi. The closest I've seen up to that point for a creepy vampire tale was with Jack Palance and Christopher Lee. [And Leslie Neilsen in Dracula: Dead & Loving It, but I digress....].
This film gives rise to a night creature who renounces God when he feels God has taken his wife despite courage in battle. His pasty white skin, Hungarian-style accent, and the wide shadows that seem to pervade the friendliest of places creates a mood, a desire for blood and death.
Winona Ryder in an early role is cute and hypnotic as Mina Harker. A pre-Matrix Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker (who is kept weak with loss of blood by the three sexy vamps, yummy), and a pasty-white Gary Oldman as the Transylvanian aristocrat (aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Count Dracula).
Anthony Hopkins plays a German scientist with an interest in the occult who reprimands and demands throughout this film, a bit of an over-acting style I didn't like all that much.
The moody music, the photography and special effects invite a chilling mood.
Recommended, especially on a cold, lonely night under a full moon (and under your covers)!
Prefer:
Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
Draculas: 4 Film Favorites - Horror of Dracula / Dracula Has Risen from the Grave / Taste the Blood of Dracula / Dracula A.D. 1972 (2DVD)
Comedy versions:
Dracula - Dead and Loving It
Love at First Bite
Summary of Bram Stoker's Dracula (Collector's Edition)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/25/2008 Run time: 127 minutes Rating: RWith dizzying cinematic tricks and astonishing performances, Francis Coppola's 1992 version of the oft-filmed Dracula story is one of the most exuberant, extravagant films of the 1990s. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder, as the Count and Mina Murray, are quite a pair of star-crossed lovers. She's betrothed to another man; he can't kick the habit of feeding off the living. Anthony Hopkins plays Van Helsing, the vampire slayer, with tongue firmly in cheek. Tom Waits is great fun as Renfield, the hapless slave of Dracula who craves the blood of insects and cats. Sadie Frost is a sexy Lucy Westenra. And poor Keanu Reeves, as Jonathan Harker, has the misfortune to be seduced by Dracula's three half-naked wives. There's a little bit of everything in this version of Dracula: gore, high-speed horseback chases, passion, and longing.
Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula is a feverishly inventive movie that often overwhelms its own narrative flow, yet proves irresistible to watch. In the high-definition transfer on this two-disc Collector's Edition, Coppola's baroque, operatic set design, costumes, and cinematography look as lavish as they did on the film's first release. The director's grab-bag of visual effects are still bold and unabashed, if often over-the-top, and the actors still appear caught up in a certain hysterical pitch that feels a little forced but can be a lot of fun to watch. Gary Oldman's imaginative performance as the titular vampire carries the weight of Coppola's vision of Count Dracula as a tragic-romantic hero with Christ-like overtones. Keanu Reeves still looks a little lost in the pivotal role of Jonathan Harker, the London clerk who finds himself a prisoner in a Transylvanian castle while a 400-year-old vampire makes a play for his fianc?e back home (Winona Ryder). Anthony Hopkins is fearless as a daft Von Helsing, and Sadie Frost is very good as the doomed Lucy.
The second disc in this set includes several good documentaries, including a featurette on the making of the film, involving past and present interviews with the principal artists involved. (Coppola and screenwriter James V. Hart speak persuasively about their commitment to bringing Stoker's vision to the screen, rather than another revision.) Another documentary, "In-Camera: The Na?ve Visual Effects of 'Dracula,'" is a fascinating overview of Coppola's sometimes-frustrated effort to get the timeless special effects he was seeking. There are also quite a few deleted scenes among the special features, the best of which is an alternative cut to the film's bloody ending. --Tom Keogh
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