Dracula

Dracula
by John Badham

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Actor: Donald Pleasence, Frank Langella, Kate Nelligan, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Eve
Director: John Badham
Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
Producer: Marvin Mirisch
Producer: Tom Pevsner
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Writer: Bram Stoker
Writer: Hamilton Deane
Writer: John L. Balderston
Writer: W.D. Richter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Dutch (Original Language); English (Original Language); Romanian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios

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Movie Review: Sensual Dracula 101
Summary: 5 Stars

There is room for a fine Dracula on the shelf. But first let's get this out of the way: this movie does not follow the Bram Stoker original classic very closely, especially in regards to characters. Big deal. This is 'Fine and hot Dracula'. So proceed knowing that the screenwriters took liberties with the women. Stoker's Lucy was Dracula's victim and it was Mina he fell in love with. In this movie, that is reversed. Kate Nelligan plays Lucy, with whom Dracula falls head over fangs in love with, and Mina is bitten and becomes a vampire who attacks a baby... etc.

How to play a sensual Dracula 101: Frank Langella has it all and then some as the famous Count Dracula in this terrific Hollywood production. The way he moves and speaks; the way he stares... no one can resist him. Not even the men. The performances of the other characters are above par as well. The women are well-played. Mina is weak, Lucy is strong. Jonathan is a wuss, Seward eats all the time and is probably high on Laudanaum... and Van Helsing is as scary as Dracula is supposed to be.

Dracula is hard to hate in this film. I was pulling for him. The imagery, the costumes, the music and the dancing (yes I like the dancing scene), all have me coming back for seconds and thirds.

If you like Dracula movies and don't hate a little romance, check this one out.

Have fun and chew some garlic...
Ellen C Maze, author Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider

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Summary of Dracula

THE VAMPIRE COUNT SCALES WALLS AND VISITS BEDROOMS AT ANENGLISH MANOR: VAN HELSING INVESTIGATES.

Chalk this one up as something that seemed like a good idea at the time. Frank Langella had just taken Broadway by storm in a revival of the play based on Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. He was tall, elegant, and almost painfully romantic--all qualities that failed to translate to this garish, tarted-up film version. The story remains the same, if told in greater length than in Bela Lugosi's version. The film even offered Laurence Olivier as vampire-hunter Van Helsing (in one of several roles he played during the period that required a middle-European accent) and a young Kate Nelligan as the woman whose love (and blood) Dracula most wants. But director John Badham, working from W.D. Richter's clunky script, makes a hash of most of it, relying on special effects to do the heavy lifting. --Marshall Fine

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