Nosferatu (1979) Director: Werner Herzog Dracula: Klaus Kinski “For me, genre means an intensive, almost dreamlike stylization on screen, and I feel the vampire genre is one of the richest and most fertile cinema has to offer. There is fantasy, hallucination, dreams and nightmares, visions, fear, and of course, mythology.” — Werner Herzog, giving us […]
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House of Frankenstein (1944) Director: Erle C. Kenton Dracula: John Carradine “The world I see is far away. Yet very near. A strange and beautiful world … in which one may be dead … and yet alive.” — Rita Hussman (Anne Gwynne), unconsciously giving us the epigraph for the entire Universal horror series John Carradine’s first appearance as Dracula (of at […]
Dracula’s Curse (2002) Director: Roger Young Dracula: Patrick Bergin This production began on Italian TV (shot on video) as Il Bacio di Dracula (The Kiss of Dracula); I watched the Artisan DVD version entitled Dracula’s Curse, which cuts about an hour out of the run time because I just said Artisan. (Some of it shows […]
It’s time once again for another installment of Things We Left Out of The Dracula Dossier, our popular series of posts not so much cataloguing our mental lapses as offering you, our beloved gamer audience, more free content for your own Dracula Dossier games! (Available for pre-order now!) In this particular case, I was inspired […]
Dracula (1968) Director: Patrick Dromgoole Dracula: Denholm Elliott Man, if every episode of the Thames TV series Mystery and Imagination mounted this kind of creative response to low budgets and primitive facilities, I’m really bummed that three seasons are lost. But I’m glad this fourth-season episode (90 minutes, divided into three Acts) survived on YouTube. Although it […]
Buffy vs. Dracula (2000) Director: David Solomon Dracula: Rudolf Martin Television being a writer’s medium, it’s probably best if writer Marti Noxon takes the credit and the blame for this, the premiere episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s fifth season. Following series creator Joss Whedon’s idea to use the actual Dracula instead of “some cool vampire […]
Scars of Dracula (1970) Director: Roy Ward Baker Dracula: Christopher Lee Let us resolutely ignore the dead pacing (probably from Anthony Hinds’ screenplay), the insane overlighting that washes out Christopher Lee’s makeup unforgivably, and the damp-even-for-a-Hammer-romantic-male-lead dampness of the “romantic male lead” Simon (Dennis Waterman). Let us ignore the comically ineffective “set fire to the […]
Dracula (1979) Director: John Badham Dracula: Frank Langella Now this is how to get Dracula wrong. John Badham’s feminist (well, feminist-for-1979) deconstruction of the stage play and Stoker’s novel creates a gothic fantasy in which “Lucy Seward” (Kate Nelligan, actually playing Mina) yearns for the liberating touch of Frank Langella’s catlike, genteel Dracula. And if you […]
The Return of Dracula (1958) Director: Paul Landres Dracula: Francis Lederer The other 1958 Dracula movie begins with a team of Romanian (or Hungarian) vampire hunters closing in on Dracula’s tomb — only to discover he has escaped! Taking the identity papers (and life) of artist Bellac (or Belak, if his name is supposed to […]
Dracula’s Daughter (1936) Director: Lambert Hillyer Daughter: Gloria Holden This weird, weird movie begins in the cellars of Carfax Abbey as a direct sequel to the 1931 Browning/Lugosi Dracula. Well, actually, it began as a bit of dirty pool by MGM mogul David O. Selznick, who bought the rights to the short story “Dracula’s Guest” […]