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Director Guy Maddin and company merge the styles of two mute art forms, ballet and silent film, with their own codes of silent gestures, and no film adaptation has better depicted the sexual and xenophobic themes of Stoker's tale. My Full Review. 2. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.
- Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931) In Bram Stoker’s novel, Count Dracula doesn’t have jet-black hair. Nor is he clean-shaven or described as speaking with an Eastern European accent.
- Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922) In the 100 years since Nosferatu came out, almost everything has changed. But one of few constants is that Count Orlok is fucking terrifying.
- Dracula (AKA Horror Of Dracula) (Terence Fisher, 1958) The first colour adaptation of Dracula put its vibrance to good use, shocking contemporary Britain with its bright-red bloodshed so badly that it had to be trimmed down.
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992) Despite being Hollywood’s most faithful adaptation of the book, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is more a love letter to the birth of cinema than to vampire lore.
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It
- Count Dracula
- The Last Voyage of The Demeter
- Dracula's Daughter
- Son of Dracula
- Abigail
- Dracula A.D. 1972
- Love at First Bite
- Horror of Dracula
- Dracula
It’s hard to be mad at Dracula: Dead and Loving It, but it’s easy to be disappointed with it. The film could have been a wonderful follow-up to Young Frankenstein for director Mel Brooks. Dracula has just as much iconography as Frankenstein ripe for affectionate spoofing. Brooks targeted everything from Bela Lugosi’s accent to Gary Oldman’s wig and...
Good intentions can only take an adaptation so far. The 1970 Count Dracula lives up to its promise to be the most faithful depiction of Stoker’s novel for about a half-hour. Sir Christopher Leeis dressed all in black, sports the literary count's white hair and moustache, and gives disquieting recitals of some of Dracula’s finest speeches from the b...
The Last Voyage of the Demeter has a poetic title. And the idea of fleshing out the doomed ship's captain's log from the novel into a movie is an exciting premise. Frankly, it's more promising than another straightforward adaptation of the whole novel would be at this point, the kind of fun twist on the original worth rooting for. Unfortunately, tw...
I’ve always preferred Dracula to Frankenstein. But I’ll readily concede that Universal gave the latter much better sequels. The Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein are two of the best entries in the Universal horror canon. Dracula’s Daughter and Son of Draculasuffer by comparison. Neither is as quirky, ambitious, nor memorable as their co...
Of the two classic Universal sequels, Son of Dracula has more to it, even with such bad miscasting as the all-American Lon Chaney Jr. as Dracula (and it is Dracula himself here, despite the title). He gives it the ol' college try, and he was the first to play Dracula in a moustache, but there's no getting around his voice or his blue-collar demeano...
Abigail's connection to Dracula is a tenuous one. If early publicity hadn't named it a reinvention of Dracula's Daughter, you could probably miss that the film has anything to do with the count at all. The premise of a kidnapping gone wrong is certainly a fresh take on the idea of Dracula having a little girl, and there is some fun and stylish art ...
Throwing Dracula into the 1970s was an obvious act of desperation by Hammer, and Dracula A.D. 1972 is no one’s idea of a masterpiece. But the juxtaposition of traditional Gothic horror and the hip scene of 70s London is so silly, I can’t help but like it. The film is dated in only the most charming of ways. One person who didn’t enjoy the fun was C...
Now here’s a Dracula spoof with some pizzazz. Perpetually tan actor George Hamilton may seem an odd choice to play any vampire, let alone Count Dracula. But he managed to morph his Lugosi impression into a full comic character: dignified, out of touch, and sexually frustrated. He can smoothly handle Van Helsing’s psychiatrist descendent, but the Ro...
Hammer’s inaugural entry in their Dracula series is held in high esteem among horror circles. It’s hard not to attach some greater weight to this film; it was the first time Christopher Lee played Dracula and Peter Cushing played Van Helsing. Yet I can’t say it’s ever been among my favorites. The female leads are stiff, the scale is constrained by ...
I’ve never been a fan of making vampires heroic or sympathetic. That goes double for Dracula: he’s evil and scary by design in the book, and that’s the way I like it. I’m also not a fan of inconsistently applying Stoker’s vampire lore; either stick to the rules or throw them out, but don’t change your mind mid-movie. Universal’s 1979 Draculais guil...
- William Fischer
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) This is probably one of the most well-known adaptations of Dracula, especially by fans of Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Gary Oldman, and Anthony Hopkins.
- Count Dracula (1977) This BBC version of Dracula is likely the most faithful to the novel. The are a few changes: Lucy and Mina are sisters here, two of Lucy’s suitors are merged into a single character, and a couple of scenes were omitted/streamlined, but this is the best adaptation of the story as a whole.
- Blacula (1972) Don’t let the name fool you: The first Blaxploitation horror film is not a parody, but a sincere effort that explores being Black in law enforcement.
- Nosferatu (1922) Probably the most influential piece of vampire media apart from the original novel, Nosferatu was the film that made sunlight lethal to vampires.
- Tim Buckler
- Shadow Of The Vampire (2000) Not available to stream at this time. This mockumentary vampire flick focused on the making of the classic silent film Nosferatu, and centered around a "what-if" scenario between the movie's director, and its main star Max Schreck.
- Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966) Not available to stream at this time. Christopher Lee reprised the iconic role he started in 1958 with Hammer's Dracula franchise and continued the saga of the evil Count.
- Dracula (2020) Available on Netflix. This three-part Netflix feature-length Dracula story is perfect for fans of Dracula movies, and Claes Bang's depiction of the character is one of the most refreshing in recent memory.
- Horror Of Dracula (1958) Stream now on Max. Christopher Lee created perhaps the most iconic Dracula ever caught on film, scaring multiple generations of horror fans as the titular villain.
Aug 15, 2023 · The 1931 Dracula by Universal Pictures is the first official, sound adaptation of Stoker's novel and features Bela Lugosi in the lead role as the Count. It was really the movie that started it all.
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7. House of Dracula. 1945 1h 7m Approved. 5.7 (6.3K) Rate. The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse. Director Erle C. Kenton Stars Onslow Stevens John Carradine Lon Chaney Jr.
