Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)...worth a blind buy?

[rushmore beauty]

I'm a massive fan of gothic film (Sleepy Hollow is indeed my favorite film), and I'm also in love with Interview With the Vampire and From Hell, so would I also love Bram Stoker's Drcula? I think it looks great, but I'm still not 100% sure on whether or not I should buy it. The video store I work at doesn't have the DVD for rent, otherwise I would, so I was planning on picking up the sale copy we've got. Anyways, I'll do a bit more research.

[Romero&Juliet]

YOU'LL LOVE IT~!!

Big and epic-y with baddass cinematography (and I think some really old CGI). If you like the big, gothic sets/costumes then this'll make you salivate. Promise.

This and the two versions of Nosferatu(one is a remake from the seventies, starring Klaus "Badddass" Kinski) would be right up your alley, Rushmore..

[CrazyKillah]

IMO, this is well-worth a blind buy. Most of my non-horror freak friends love it.

[MickeyKnox]

It's a cool vampire movie, I recommend it if you're into vamp movies, much personally i prefer Interview With the Vampire, but this is a cool flick!

[Tagia_Romero]

Indeed, but also be prepared for many melodramatic elements because although it does have the sauce, it also has teary eyes with it.

[darchangel]

totally buy it. i enjoyed this movie much. go vampires!

~darchangel~

[dr_nocturna]

Great cast, atmospheric, rich in color and settings...by all means, purchase!

Pleasant Screams-Doc Noc

[blacksnake]

Bram Stroker's Dracula, is based on the novel Dracula, by Bram Stroker. It is about Dracula, who goes off to war and his wife Elisabetta, thinks that he has been killed in the war and then kills herself. Four centuries later Dracula, sees Elisabetta, in London, who is named Mina, and is engaged to Jonathan Harker, who goes to visits Dracula's castle and gets seduced by many vampire women in the castle. Dracula, also comes to London, and bites Mina's childhood best friend Lucy, who is engaged to be married to Arthur Holmwood. Lucy, starts acting weird so they send for Professor Van Helsing, who explains that she was bitten by a vampire and that they have to kill her and the head vampire. Professor Van Helsing, Arthur, and a bunch of townspeople go after Dracula, who has now fallen in love with Mina, and she is in love with him. Winner of The ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Films, The Oscar for Best Costume Design, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Makeup and The Saturn Award for Best Actor (Gary OLdman, who plays Dracula), Best Costumes, Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola), Best Horror Film and Best Writing. Director, Francis Ford Coppola, has directed a horror movie before called Dementia 13, and he is good at making them. Although more more big budget and not as campy as Dementia 13, Bram Stroker's Dracula, has great costumes, great makeup, a great performance by Gary Oldman, as Dracula, and is a stunning visual experience, it's fun, great sets, is a deep film, has a nice rich atmosphere and is one of the best Dracula, movies and is one of the best horror movies of the 90's. I hope that Francis Ford Coppola, will some day again make another horror film because this film was excellent and a great triumph and Dementia 13, was a great campy cult horror film.

[rushmore beauty]

Well I bought it and so far, I've watch half of it (had to work...). But so far I'm totally loving it...the style of like the old horror films of the 40s through to the late 60s....I love the huge gothic sets and whatever. And any movie where you see Monica Bellucci naked can't be bad. Anyways, I'm off to finish it...I'll post with my rating and thoughts. Thanks for the comments guys and dolls.

[pyscho dude]

Yeah this is a great film.

[EvilDeadGirl]

Glad you are enjoying it so far Rush. I absolutely love this film and it was one of the very first DVD's I purchased. -Teary eye- An excellent cast, timeless story and beautiful costume design.

Absolutely loved Lucy's burial dress. My gawd I'd get married in that thing!

[rushmore beauty]

Yeah...I'm done watching it now. Wow, that really was a kick-ass flick and I agree with most of what Romero&Juliet said...big, epic-y, with great costumes. I loved the gothic feel to it, even if it wasn't as powerful as it was in Interview or Sleepy Hollow. Gary Oldman was great in it and I loved Hopkins' Van Helsing....he was just a tad insane, but in a great way.
And EvilDeadGirl, if you think that Lucy's dress was gorgeous and you'd be willing to get married in it, you are among the most amazing people I have ever met and sound like my type of chick.

[EoghainFOKeeffe]

I'm glad you liked it, Rushmore Beauty. It's one of my favourite horror films (well, I have hundreds of favourites...I don't like to make short lists!)

I've never felt this film got the respect it deserved - so it's good to see so many people, on this threat, giving it the thumbs up.

It is, indeed, a spectacular epic and captures the gothic atmosphere perfectly.

There were only two things I didn't like about it - Keanu Reeves performance (although it wasn't his worst performance by a long shot) and that silly-looking suit of red armour. Apart from that - it's a horror masterpiece.

What the HELL happened to Coppola after that?

[Cronos]

I couldn't find any faults with Bram Stokers Dracula, its one of the best horror films ive seen, the acting is great and the costumes and makeup are excellent

this is definitely the best Dracula film i have seen and its a shame Coppola doesnt do horror more often

[EvilDeadGirl]

Posted by Rushmore Beauty - "And EvilDeadGirl, if you think that Lucy's dress was gorgeous and you'd be willing to get married in it, you are among the most amazing people I have ever met and sound like my type of chick."

Hehe Tks doll. Ya should see my house. Goth rawks! :)

But seriously the costume design in that film was outstanding, even Mina's dresses were beautiful. Dark and elegant. (sp?) Loved Dracula's outfit when Mina first see's him. My gawd the top hat makes the suit stand out even more!

The acting was great though I do agree with EoghainFOKeeffe. Keanue Reeves really pisses me off but he wasn't as bad in this film as he was in others coughmatrixcoughspeedcough. Maybe it's because he wasn't onscreen 99% of the time.

[ERIN_LoJ]

Was I the only one a little dissapointed by this film???

[Xipe Totec]

Originally posted by ERIN_LoJ
Was I the only one a little dissapointed by this film???
Seems so. I too loved the movie.

[martyds761]

Originally posted by ERIN_LoJ
Was I the only one a little dissapointed by this film??? You're the minority. I LOVED this movie.........

[gorysnoopy]

What disappointed you,Erin?

[JurassicMik]

This is the best Dracula movie I've ever seen.

[ERIN_LoJ]

Originally posted by gorysnoopy
What disappointed you,Erin?

Well geez now I feel like the spotlight is on me, with others schmoes tuning in my direction :D

I don't know how to phrase it now that I'm tongue tied with nerves. ;) The cast was done well, the coloring and directing were beautiful and artsy, but I just found it a little lackluster.

I've only seen it once however; based on all these results I'll rewatch and see if my opinion varies this time around

[EvilDeadGirl]

Erin, let us know whatcha think once you give it a rewatch. Might jes' change yer mind. ;)

[robk]

Originally posted by ERIN_LoJ
Was I the only one a little dissapointed by this film???

No, you weren't Erin. Bram Stoker's Dracula is, IMHO, the worst Dracula film for 1 basic reason: This Dracula is anything but Bram Stoker's.
Putting aside that sh!tty tagline(Love Never Dies) & the fact that Gary Oldman, although he looks the part, never is terrifying like Lugosi & Lee were, the movie's content is far from being as faithful as many of its pre-release material assured the world it would be.
The ONLY pluses I give this film are the production values & the well-cast Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Otherwise, I didn't know what was up with Mina's You-Bastard-You-Killed-My-Best-Friend-But-I'm-Still-In-Love-With-You schtick, which wasn't in the novel at all(I should know, I've read the novel).
Had this presented itself as another Dracula film, I'd have taken it on those terms & probably would be less harsh with it. However, its belief in its own superiority as THE definitive adaptation of Stoker's brilliant opus makes a critical analysis imperative.

[miceland1]

This film is not my favorite Vampire film by a long shot. As far as comparison to Sleep Holow I think it compares pretty well.

I didn't care for Sleepy Hollow as much as I did the Disney animated version !!?!

If you would like my favorite Goth movie of late its Underworld.

-mice

[therealjohng]

By the way this is getting re-released on dvd by next year. So says davisdvd.

[EVILxxx]

Hey, who directed this?

[miceland1]

Francis Ford Coppola (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/fullcredits)

One of the greatest Directors of our time. This though I don't think is his best movie.

[EVILxxx]

Thanks.