BBC Dracula

Renfield (Dwight Frye) is een vastgoedmakelaar. Voor een klant moet hij vanuit Londen naar het verre Transsylvanië reizen. Door de lokale bevolking word hij gewaarschuwd voor de verschrikkelijke graaf Dracula (

Frank Langella’s Count Dracula takes some liberties with the character but delivers a satisfying ’70s update to Bram Stoker’s original vampire story.

Coppola does pretty well with this movie, and includes all he original Dracula elements into this on, except he makes it even more enticing and dramatic.

This film may have one goal of being closer to the source material than previous adaptations, but it still deviates in a way that turns it into a completely different story even if it retains the overall mood. Does this film want to be a horror film, a love story, a gothic period piece? Someone looking for these specific types of films individually may not be satisfied with this adaptation as well as someone looking for a faithful Dracula adaptation may not be completely satisfied. In the same way that Lynch's Dune is overblown, this film touches on that offense as well, but things turn out to be a bit less muddled, though still a little convoluted.

Francis Ford Coppola's take on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Even though it has a fantastic cast, it's all a bit shallow. Anthony Hopkins & Tom Waits come away with decent performances but the rest of the cast are a bit like cardboard cutouts. I saw this at the cinema when it first came out & thought it was average then. Gary Oldman is my favourite actor but this film doesn't do him any favours & the less said about Keanu Reeves & Winona Ryder the better. Considering it's a love story, you don't feel for any of the lead characters at all.