Dracula (1992) - Full Reaction
Added 2021-10-08 07:15:21 +0000 UTCHey guys! Here's the full reaction to Bram Stoker's Dracula. It was much different than I was expecting. Hope you enjoy the reaction!
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The only other better 'Dracula' movie is 1931 version starring Bela Lugosi but if black and white is not your thing, then 1979's 'Dracula' starring Frank Langella is a half way decent movie.
JPDotCom23
2024-02-10 05:38:04 +0000 UTCI guess this was more of a guy movie than anything else
JPDotCom23
2024-02-10 05:33:51 +0000 UTCFrancis Ford Coppola is an awesome director. "Your impotent men ... I condemn you to living death. To eternal hunger for living blood." Mina: "I love you! Oh, God forgive me, I do!" "I... love you too much to condemn you."
Clay F
2024-02-03 08:05:52 +0000 UTCI am not a fan of this director. He is undoubtedly a great technician, able to create amazing images, but I do not consider him an artist. . It would be possible to build a very beautiful and imaginative guillotine, but it would still be an instrument of death. Neither the nudity nor the blood was necessary; many movies have conveyed sexuality and horror without them.
Ted Little
2023-02-10 23:23:07 +0000 UTCThe novel was written in 1897. This is the origin story that is most famous for Dracula and vampires, but not the origin of the myths of vampires. Many cultures had myths of Vampires. Dracula was a combination of the myths and of an actual person. Dracula was also called Vlad the impaler. His father was Vlad Dracul (dragon), and at some point asked for help from the King of Hungary Matthias Corvinus. Transylvannia was in a region of Romania that was also called Wallachia. He lived from approximately (1428/31-1476/77. His kingdom fought against the Ottoman Empire (based out of present day Turkey). Those names and places are often used in vampire stories. The ruins of the castle that Vlad the Impaler still exists today and can be visited - it is not as impressive as in the movie at all. Vlad the Impaler was known for impaling his defeated and captured enemies in the thousands and was also reputed to have drunk their blood.
ENC SW DV Rush
2022-11-01 08:36:45 +0000 UTCRegarding Dracula's transformation into a wolf-like creature, HE IS NOT A WEREWOLF. If you read the original novel by Bram Stoker, he makes it clear that Dracula can transform into any number of animals or into mist. In fact, at night his powers are almost limitless. During the day, he is much weaker. The novel also makes it very clear that he is distinctly unattractive. The idea of Dracula as a handsome man was the result of casting Christopher Lee as the Hammer Films version of Dracula. After that, most movies depicted him as handsome and debonair. It should also be noted that, in the original novel, there is no love story between Dracula and Mina. His origin is unexplained, but he is understood to be an agent of Satan. One of the most frightening aspects of the Dracula myth is that "goodness" has nothing whatsoever to do with going to Heaven. If you are bitten, die and become a vampire, your soul is condemned to Hell. Finally, regarding the nudity in the film - it VERY MUCH served a purpose. Biting a victim is a penetrative, pseudo-sexual act. In Victorian era England, this was understood. For modern audiences, some other means of conveying this idea was necessary. Coppola went with more explicit sexuality and nudity for the simple reason that those unfamiliar with the original novel and the mores of the day would have no idea of the significance (sexually speaking) of the vampire's bite.
Just Plain Bob
2022-05-23 09:37:37 +0000 UTCReactions and feelings to the movie vary, but I think it's all very intentional in its oddness. Francis Ford Coppola is obviously a very skilled filmmaker working with a very talented cast and crew. The gothic melodrama of it all feels forced, mostly (in my opinion) because neither Winona Ryder nor Keanu Reeves are talented enough actors to pull it off. Or perhaps they just weren't right for the vision. I enjoy them both very much, but they are certainly the weakest links of the movie. Which is funny because Ryder was really the driving force for getting the movie made. And Keanu was basically cast to bring in the female audience, which clearly worked, because despite his horrid performance, he was the only character you seemed to care about while watching. I found that pretty funny. It's certainly not my favorite FFC movie, but it's well-paced for a gothic horror, a genre that I typically find unbearably boring. Probably not a movie I would have revisited on my own, but I enjoyed watching along with you. A fun time, as always.
Gary Giaimo
2022-04-03 08:22:09 +0000 UTCThe thing about Dracula is that it's filled with all the f'ed up mentality the Victorians had about sexuality, and for that reason, this film is actually a very faithful adaptation of the novel, in spirit if not in text (though it's reasonably accurate there, too.) Do yourself a favor and Google analyses of Dracula and Victorian sexual attitudes, and I think you'll find a lot more context for how bizarre the film is.
Singing Wordwright
2022-02-08 09:08:49 +0000 UTCDracula (1979) might be more to your romantic tastes but for some reason in it they switch the names of Mina and Lucy.
Trembling Colors
2021-10-30 05:19:40 +0000 UTCThis is kinda my favorite love story, surprised you didn't like it too much
Dustin Nelson
2021-10-29 18:24:55 +0000 UTCFor a different kind of vampire movie I recommend Fright Night. It's a great fun movie that's more light hearted but not a complete comedy. I think you'd enjoy it, and perhaps your sister too. I think even she would like it- not too scary and fun interesting characters.
Russell
2021-10-20 18:24:55 +0000 UTCSince you asked Cassie, I've seen several a number of articles either written by women, or that interviewed women, that stated Sir Christopher Lee from Horror of Dracula (and it's six sequels) was one of, or even the, most attractive Dracula of all time. You would know him as Saruman from Lord of the Rings, but this was from when he was a much younger man, Horror of Dracula being released in 1958. And yes, this is just another attempt by me to get my favorite version of Dracula reacted to.
Richard Maurer
2021-10-18 05:16:26 +0000 UTCAlso if you like Cary Grant, two movies I like of his (Out of Many!) Are Operation Petticoat and Father Goose... both take place in the pacific during WWII but are great performances on his part and hilarious to boot!
Gary Quick
2021-10-16 16:15:09 +0000 UTCthe stake traditionally was actually used to hold the vampire in place so that you could then decapitate them, it didn't actually kill them in of itself... although there are so many takes on vampires it's hard to keep straight
Gary Quick
2021-10-16 16:05:05 +0000 UTCWatching this reminds me also of several movies I want to suggest that you may like. Have ypou seen the mask of zorro? with anthony hopkins here and antonio banderas? or he Rocketeer, a disney movie starring the big texan in this one. Fried Green Tomatoes in a great human interest story with a guest starring Gary Oldman... all great movies
Gary Quick
2021-10-16 16:00:09 +0000 UTCI loved when you said "But what if you saw the real him!?!" Mina has seen the real him, the one that loved her as Elisabetha, not this version that has existed for centuries in misery and anger.
Gary Quick
2021-10-16 15:56:02 +0000 UTCThe worst thing here is that The Invisible Man is a fantastic movie and immeasurably better than Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Darren Gibson
2021-10-13 20:43:33 +0000 UTCThis movie is probably the closest adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel...
Raj K. Dixit
2021-10-13 20:42:49 +0000 UTCThe Bela Lugosi is the classical version. Gary Quick is spot on.
Jason Mangen
2021-10-13 20:37:53 +0000 UTC‘Shadow of the Vampire’ is the Malkovich DaFoe vehicle and ‘Dracula Untold’ the most historically accurate depiction of Vlad still containing magical parts. It stars the actor that killed Smaug in Hobbit. Neither are particularly scary. Use them this month, if you’d like. Carley could easily survive either, I believe.
Lamar Smith
2021-10-13 18:17:11 +0000 UTCOn the desire to see a different portrayal, one that is, believe it or not, actually more historically accurate to Vlad ‘The Impaler’ III, the real Romanian Prince upon which Dracula is based but still with the magical elements, it stars the actor who player Baird/Bard/Bane from ‘The Hobbit,’ the one who shoots Smaug with the black arrow. A tiny bit of looking will find it. I want to say it’s something like ‘Dracula 2017,’ perhaps. The real life Vlad spent part of his childhood in the Ottoman court as a hostage but fought against the Turks when their Army marched through Romania/Transylvania. He set Turkish prisoners alive on long sharpened stakes allowing gravity to work the stake from….. the hole between their legs to the hole in their face. He’d leave thousands of these as, essentially, terror tactics to deter the Turk army that vastly outnumbered the Christian forces under his command. He was a very violent man living in extraordinarily violent times. There is a tragic love story associated with him but I can’t speak to its historical accuracy. In that conflict, sending word to his beloved that Vlad had died when in fact he’d not in the hope she’d end her life, thus hurting him wouldn’t be too far out of bounds given Vlad’s preference for pointy wooden enemas. Vlad’s order of chivalry was associated with the ‘Dragon,’ ‘Dracul,’ in Romanian. Bram Stoker wove his fictional story from those historical elements. There’s a fantastic movie portraying the real life efforts at one of the first motion pictures of all time, a silent, black and white German film that couldn’t get the movie rights to Stoker’s book so created a movie that is obviously ‘Dracula’ with all the characters simply renamed. The modern movie that tells a version of this story, starring John Malkovic as the Director Murnau and Willem DaFoe as ‘Count Orlock.’ Sorry if you feel this is a spoiler but Murnau tells his crew that Orlock is a method actor and will always be in character. The truth is a bit darker. The movie is dark but also very funny, doing a great job of depicting life on a movie set. Hopefully not much of a spoiler but there’s a scene where Murnau complains to Orlock that vital members of the production crew are falling ill, leaving the shoot or disappearing. The director screams, “Why didn’t you eat the…… the……(thinking of someone not essential)… the script girl?” With blood visible on his mouth, the real vampire who falls prey to the ego-boost of being a star, assures him, “The script girl! I’ll eat her later!”
Lamar Smith
2021-10-13 18:09:04 +0000 UTCif you can watch the old silent movie "Nosferatu" it's a interesting telling of the story... also it's like 100 years old. Universal studios Dracula with Bela Lugosi is considered a classic... There are so many versions of dracula from the horrid to the comidic that it's hard to choose a place to start. However if you're looking for Halloween-y movies I would greatly suggest watching "Young Frankenstein" by Mel Brooks. it's a retelling of the frankenstien story in a rather unique fashion.
Gary Quick
2021-10-13 17:08:45 +0000 UTCCassie, precious angel, I’d love to see you opine on the phenomenon. I couldn’t imagine you ever wanting to become undead. Could you help the confused among us understand the change? Why do modern women and girls want to become vampires and many quite shockingly so?
Lamar Smith
2021-10-13 16:49:20 +0000 UTCThis dated from a time, though began to show small elements of the change that occurred in our society, from when people, especially women, did not want to become vampires. Remember the good old days when stopping women from becoming vampires was a good thing. If you managed to stop a woman, God help you a teenager, from becoming a vampire today, the real threat to your existence would be the still mortal woman coming after you for blood but not to drink.
Lamar Smith
2021-10-13 16:45:47 +0000 UTC"Don't think Vampires are real"?!? That's what they want you to think...
Gary Quick
2021-10-13 16:37:32 +0000 UTCThere is also Love at First Bite, a Dracula comedy, and Once Bitten, a vampire comedy with Jim Carrey and Cleavon Little (the sheriff from Blazing Saddles)
PaulChristopher
2021-10-12 04:36:18 +0000 UTCThumbs up if you think Cassie should watch "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" One of the BEST movies to watch during Halloween - funny and spooky with great performances by all three of Universal's best monsters.
Michael Jung
2021-10-11 07:45:57 +0000 UTCOoh - good choice. It has an Indiana Jones vibe to it too, so I think Cassie would like that.
Michael Jung
2021-10-11 07:43:31 +0000 UTCWolf is actually really good. It's more psychological horror and Nicholson plays against type so Cassie might appreciate that (he's still scary, just nowhere near as creepy as he is in The Shining)
Michael Jung
2021-10-11 07:41:22 +0000 UTCIt's not one of my favorites, but a funny movie to watch after this is the comedy "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" Leslie Nielson (the doctor from Airplane!) stars as Dracula and the film basically just ridicules Bram Stoker's Dracula in every scene. Not all the jokes land IMO, but the ones that do are actually pretty funny.
Michael Jung
2021-10-11 07:39:31 +0000 UTCYep, this Dracula movie was extremely weird. I'm a monster movie fan and I don't know what to make of it. However - Keanu Reeves and Wynonna Ryder apparently really enjoy working together and recently reunited to do an atypical romantic comedy called Destination Wedding. Don't know if it's your thing, but I found it very funny - they play two extremely unromantic people who end up forming a connection during a mutual friend/relative's wedding. Practically every scene in the film is just them talking, making it feel more like a stage play.
Michael Jung
2021-10-11 07:36:57 +0000 UTCStill hoping for Practical Magic
Katie Jackson
2021-10-11 07:31:19 +0000 UTCEnough of the vampires already, how about some Werewolves?! Preferably American... I think she'd like "Wolf", with Jack Nicholson. OR, how about some Witches, "... of Eastwick"? Also with Jack Nicholson BTW...
Joe D. MacGuffinstuff
2021-10-11 06:41:37 +0000 UTCI grew up with the Hammer Films versions with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing; that brings the most nostalgia for me.
Michael Labs
2021-10-11 02:46:32 +0000 UTCHey Cassie. Since the sports poll is over, how about movies in space?
Marina
2021-10-10 19:21:22 +0000 UTCI have to admit, I was unlikely to watch this reaction as the film holds a “it was cute/nifty with cast but I don’t recall being much a fan” despite owning it still… but I had to, at minimum, open it up to watch the “unironic ‘woah’” when I saw youre mention. I had to see how that came about and was not disappointed. Thanks for the heads-up LOL.
Rumpus Parable
2021-10-10 18:49:15 +0000 UTCCassie, Please react to the Netflix 10 part psychological thriller "Haunting of Hill House." One of the BEST series available to us.
Joe Aschenbrener
2021-10-10 16:27:34 +0000 UTCI love the old-school visual effects. Coppola refused to use CGI, and when his special effects team protested, he fired them and hired his son, Roman, to take charge of the effects. The movie seems like such a love letter to cinema's history. The visuals come across as silly and campy at times, but in a few scenes, brilliant.
Alex Villarreal
2021-10-10 08:21:56 +0000 UTCMy favourite part of this reaction was Cassie doing a Hannibal Lecter impression:)
Mark M
2021-10-10 01:56:21 +0000 UTCVan Helsing was/is a monster Hunter in Europe; The Warewolf, The Frankenstein, The Mummy all this were his targets. But Dracula was his fearful nemesis.
FranciscoGios
2021-10-09 21:50:32 +0000 UTCwondering if you recognized Sir Anthony Hopkins (aka Dr. Hannibal Lector). about to find out.
ron young
2021-10-09 12:43:07 +0000 UTCfree full version on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWsAMYBRHt8 i've watched it from this link before and it's legit.
ron young
2021-10-09 12:30:49 +0000 UTCawesome. looking forward to your reaction to this movie, one of my favorites, right along "Horror of Dracula", "Dracula Prince of Darkness", "Dracula Has Risen From the Grave", "Taste the Blood of Dracula", and of course "Scars of Dracula" - all featuring Christopher Lee (Saruman from LOTR) and busty English women. and I can't go on listing my favorite vampire movies without mentioning "Let the Right One In".
ron young
2021-10-09 12:27:03 +0000 UTCA few things which newcomers to this movie might find unexplained or ambiguous: Dracula is, to put it bluntly, a strange individual. While he is centuries old and possessed of a medieval and authoritarian perspective, he is also highly curious and drawn to modernity, and wishes to rejoin human society by moving to the greatest city of the day, London. He hungers to feed upon the millions living there but he also wants to see the things he's only been told about by travelers - gas lighting, motion pictures, automobiles, mechanical wonders he never could have imagined in life. His first attempt to relocate was a failure, as the English realtor Renfield discovered Dracula's true nature and went stark raving mad at the being in the presence of a creature hundreds of years old. Luckily for Dracula, Renfield's insane babbling about his plans were dismissed as psychotic fantasies and he was institutionalized, but to prevent that happening again Dracula decided to keep his next realtor prisoner lest HE lose his mind as well after staying at Castle Dracula. So he forces Jonathan to write letters home making excuses and then confines him to the castle. The most distinctive trait vampires have here is they are UN-natural. We often see Dracula or Lucy filmed oddly, either at a higher camera speed or filmed moving backwards, to make their motions jerky and impossible-looking. The movie only touches on it quickly, but one of the conditions for Dracula to survive outside of his own grave is to sleep buried within the soil of his homeland. This is what the many crates of dirt are for which Van Helsing and the others break open and contaminate with holy water. This is also why we see in the beginning that Dracula is buying many properties all over London, and not just the run-down Carfex Abbey - he needs sufficient quantities of gravedirt available all over the city so that no matter where he goes, a safe place to bury himself and sleep during the day is within walking distance. Other traditional rules which the movie presents without much of an explanation: garlic (seen draped around Lucy during her illness) is repellent to vampires. Vampires are said to be unable to cross running water - Dracula is powerful enough to defy this condition but his unnatural presence on the ocean summons up violent storms centered around his location. The most famous method of dispatching vampires isn't just driving a stake through their heart, but also decapitating them, stuffing their mouths with garlic and burying the head away from the body to prevent their return. Items of faith are said to be able to drive vampires back - crosses, holy water, and a consecrated communion wafer are all used here - but again, Dracula seems powerful enough that such things don't affect him as greatly. There are different opinions on the finale - some say that piercing the heart is all that's required, so it doesn't matter that it was Quincey's bowie knife and not a wooden stake, and others insist that it has to be a stake, which provides a means by which Dracula might resurrect at a later date.
Patrick Flanagan
2021-10-09 07:18:52 +0000 UTCLangella is good but unfortunately that movie also throws in a bit of the same "Mina was into Dracula" storyline as this film. (Actually I think in that film they switch Mina and Lucy for no particular reason)
Patrick Flanagan
2021-10-09 06:52:19 +0000 UTCA agree too, it would be a good choice for the month. A bit scary here and there, but mainly fun adventure with a romance. The first one is really good. Maybe it would also be worth doing a '1999' themed month, there were so many good movies released that year. :)
Gábor Árki
2021-10-09 06:26:50 +0000 UTCI remember hearing so much about this movie, tried watching it last year I think I got about 40 minutes in and realized I had no idea what's going on. I'm not so familiar with the Dracula classic story except it's some love story and he sucks the blood of a woman. so I guess you're supposed to know the story going in then when you watch the movie you're supposed to connect the dots, I guess, Idk. I usually don't fatigue so much watching a movie but honestly it became a chore. I'd like to think I always tough it through movies like this but after 40 minutes I just stopped the movie and I told myself maybe I'll get back to it later, it's weird cuz I would never not finish a genre film, but i didn't.
Sahitya
2021-10-09 06:19:50 +0000 UTCWell, that was my first time watching this movie and I think it kind of sucked.
Mr. Killeverything
2021-10-09 03:26:53 +0000 UTCI agree! That and the Mummy Returns! I think Cassie would really like Rick and Evie!
Cody Nelson
2021-10-09 02:11:08 +0000 UTCI think Jeepers Creepers (2001) and It Follows (2014) are modern classic horror films.
G
2021-10-09 01:43:22 +0000 UTCThe Mummy would be a good choice. Kind of has that Indiana Jones vibe to it. Tremors would probably be a great one as well.
Verteron
2021-10-09 00:50:42 +0000 UTCFright Night has a very sexy, charismatic vampire mixed with humor and young love.
Grinznmore
2021-10-09 00:34:06 +0000 UTCAlso, happy to see you disliked the love story. That wasn't in the original novel. Dracula's just a monster originally. Watch the 1931 classic version if you want to see a more accurate portrayal of Dracula.
Mytheos Holt
2021-10-09 00:34:05 +0000 UTCSo what I get from this is that Dracula is unbelievably lucky that Cass wasn't his reincarnated wife, because she is totally immune to vampire charms.
Mytheos Holt
2021-10-08 23:13:40 +0000 UTCthere are a few gory scenes in it, played for laughs.
Patrick Flanagan
2021-10-08 23:06:35 +0000 UTCDownfall is brilliant- the last days of the Third Reich in Hitler’s bunker. Madness, despair, delusion…
Catherine LW
2021-10-08 22:11:26 +0000 UTCThe romantic story between Dracula and Mina was added in, it wasn't in the book. If you want to see something closer to the book, there's a BBC miniseries from the 70s. I know Dracula Untold gets a lot of hate, but that one had Luke Evans (Bard from The Hobbit) playing Dracula that I thought was a lot of fun
Drew
2021-10-08 21:44:18 +0000 UTCYou're on. LOL
Raven Dark
2021-10-08 21:25:11 +0000 UTCThat WAS a good one. The rest were horrible but the original was awesome on the big screen
William Bryan
2021-10-08 21:11:44 +0000 UTCI'd bet $10k she's seen both. Lol
William Bryan
2021-10-08 21:05:25 +0000 UTCHere we go!!!!!! Game 1!!!! Choptober. GO BRAVES!!!!!
William Bryan
2021-10-08 20:50:50 +0000 UTCI'm sorry you didn't enjoy it as much I hoped you would. I guess after multiple viewings, I go into it thinking it's a love story between two souls. Elizabeta is supposedly damned by the church that Dracula sacrificed everything to protect, so he forsakes god and damns himself to follow her. He's definitely a villain, but I can sympathize. She comes back 400 years later as Mina, and her soul still loves him. In the end, in the same church where she left him, and where he damned himself over her, she finally sets him free.
Robert Haynes
2021-10-08 20:43:21 +0000 UTCSleepy Hollow is a great recommendation. Very Tim Burton, somehow both charming and creepy at the same time.
Robert Haynes
2021-10-08 20:38:44 +0000 UTCThe Mummy (1999) would be a great choice for October. One of the best adventure movies of all time. Has a great romance too;)
Sinan1608
2021-10-08 20:17:39 +0000 UTCThing with Dracula is that the dark/weird atmosphere doesn't give you a break. You can't really appreciate the work on sets and costumes as youre always in a tense state trying to follow whats going on. I understand your bit colder feelings about this movie Cassie.
Guillaume HUET
2021-10-08 20:16:40 +0000 UTC"Look at that! Takin it like a champ!" -Negan https://youtu.be/G6EpddBCIXw
William Bryan
2021-10-08 20:10:13 +0000 UTCOh, damn. LOL Have you seen Dirty Dancing or Pretty Woman? I don't bring them up for Halloween obviously, but just because they are perfect movies for the channel and for you.
Raven Dark
2021-10-08 19:28:22 +0000 UTC"We're WEREWOLVES, not SWEAR-WOLVES!"
Colin Gutierrez
2021-10-08 19:25:33 +0000 UTCIs October over yet? Four weeks of nonstop horror movies on every reaction channel is rough. I might have to go outside, or interact with other humans for a while. Can't wait till we get back to watching good movies again. =p
Verteron
2021-10-08 18:55:19 +0000 UTCLike a champ!
Krusty “Topher”
2021-10-08 18:08:23 +0000 UTCWhen people talk about how artistic this movie is, they are mainly referring to the actual technical side of things. Pretty much every shot in this movie was done using old school filmmaking techniques. Only a few shots were done with optical compositing. Everything else was done with double exposures, miniatures, and other camera trickery. Overall, it is a very acquired taste, but the more you know about it, the more it tends to grow on you. Everything about this movie was intended to take the concept of what a Dracula movie is to the next level. The visuals, the incorporation of a love story, turning Dracula into a tragic figure, and of course all the sex and nudity.
Chris W
2021-10-08 17:42:03 +0000 UTCSorry you didn't like this one too much :( Personally, I thought Gary Oldman was PHENOMENAL in this. He's easily one of my favourite actors of all time. Additionally, I LOVED the early scenes between Dracula and Keanu Reeves where Dracula's shadow isn't properly mirroring his body - some of my favourite visuals in any film. Anyhow, hope GB2 was more enjoyable for ya :)
Uncle 'Traveling' Matt
2021-10-08 17:35:58 +0000 UTCCass You have to watch the movie Downfall anschauen.er is a real masterpiece of history .it combines the cruel with reality. Yes I know it's a German film but you will definitely like it.of course only if you have time for it.would really make me happy.otherwise have a nice evening. Very entertaining reaction as always.
Julian
2021-10-08 17:29:58 +0000 UTCStill hard to top "Don't Fear the Reaper" I could listen to that song for all eternity
William Bryan
2021-10-08 17:02:51 +0000 UTCThe movie was indeed rather strange but I did not find it terribly so. Several things were filled in that weren't in the book (which is written as a compilation of letters and journals). As to other movies; the most classic Dracula adaptations were the Bela Lugosi film and the Christopher Lee film. Possibly the most "romance oriented" is the 1979 movie starring Frank Langella. I also would recommend that one for Cassie.
Michael Labs
2021-10-08 16:51:24 +0000 UTCI cannot recommend enough, and many others have also, "What we do in the shadows" a taika watiti send-up of vampires, and other monsters. I'm going to watch it today to see about gore, and stuff, but I don't remember it being anything but dry as a bone humorous.
Jon Johns
2021-10-08 16:28:48 +0000 UTCOkay, 1st: Cassie, unironically saying, "Woah" when seeing Keanu was just perfect. 2nd, the soundtrack was so familiar, then I realized how it was used in The Goa Mix by Paul Oakenfold. 3rd, I know this story inside out, having read it, acted in the stage play of it, and watched this film a couple times, and I still don't care for it. Just isn't my cuppa. 4th, the "Michelin man" red armor can be seen in the restaurant at Coppola Winery in Sonoma county, CA, along with many other costumes, and props from Coppola's films. 5th, oh, wow, didn't remember the Merovingian's girlfriend being one of the counts girls!
Jon Johns
2021-10-08 16:24:29 +0000 UTCYou thought Dracula was supposed to be handsome? But he's many centuries old, so he's grotesque, and he's handsome, and he's various creatures, and he's eternally in love. I would have thought you'd enjoy that!
OkieBoomer
2021-10-08 16:17:34 +0000 UTCI agree about the book, and no movie has quite nailed it. I said in a previous thread I'd love to see someone like Denis Villeneuve take a crack at it. I think he would do a great job with the quiet tension the book is so good at.
Robin T
2021-10-08 15:46:18 +0000 UTCMina is such a great character in the book - thoughtful and intelligent. And though it's not really a romance since she and Jonathan are already in love when it starts, they have a very sweet, supportive marriage. Not enough stories show that side of love imo.
Robin T
2021-10-08 15:33:08 +0000 UTCI also read that Mina did not love Dracula in the book and loved Johnathan, i would have preferred that ;)
Cassie
2021-10-08 15:20:33 +0000 UTCdangit i have actually seen that one or would be perfect for this month “ditto”
Cassie
2021-10-08 15:19:05 +0000 UTCI've not seen the reaction yet. She handled that scene?! Whoa
William Bryan
2021-10-08 15:08:10 +0000 UTCugh the soundtrack for this film is absolutely stunning. a perfect movie really
MetallicOpeth
2021-10-08 14:47:01 +0000 UTCWell I thought this was going to be a very short reaction because I figured when the scene came where Dracula offers up a baby to his vampyre wives….Cassie would be done!! But she stuck it out! I would have lost that bet!🤣
Krusty “Topher”
2021-10-08 13:05:25 +0000 UTCI'm not a horror movie fan so I wasn't very enthusiastic about what would come up on this channel this month, but I love this movie, so that was a nice surprise. But it can be quite confusing if you're new to the Dracula story as you said you were. It doesn't really explain a lot of things, it just takes for granted that you already know. I loved seeing your reaction even though you didn't like it. :-)
Tobias Eiken
2021-10-08 12:34:02 +0000 UTCThis one is perhaps the most obscure telling of the Dracula story. You almost need to already know the story to recognize which parts it's trying to tell you. Almost like the cared more about the movie making than storytelling. I'm a fan of the story and I believe(?) I have seen every version available, I'm going to agree that the 1931 version with Bela Lugosi is the standard to compare to.
Jon Freezin-Rain
2021-10-08 12:22:03 +0000 UTCYou have to understand that when Bram Stoker wrote this book, the Catholic Church (and Christianity in general) were much more powerful and influential forces in the world. And when telling a story about the ultimate servant of evil to a Christian audience in the late 1800s, what better plot device than unfaithful, naked, lusty women? Has Christianity ever hated anything more? Lol On a more serious note, as with all book-to-screen adaptations, I'd recommend reading the book to "get it" better. And lastly, I don't mind that you didn't like it. Taste is subjective, I think most people can understand that. I enjoyed your reaction!
Aaron
2021-10-08 10:35:19 +0000 UTCUniversal Movie monsters are an odd lot for me; overall I like them. My favorite being "Creature From the Black Lagoon". But there are only some newer versions that I watch.
Allen Bond
2021-10-08 09:57:16 +0000 UTC"Only a woman can break his spell, pure in heart, who will offer herself... to Nosferatu!" -Blue Oyster Cult "Nosferatu" It's a pretty good song, you should check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwskAqJAxgo
Greg McDaniel
2021-10-08 09:54:54 +0000 UTCI think Sleepy Hollow is good, i agree.
Armchair Wizard
2021-10-08 09:54:16 +0000 UTCLame
Robert Holmes
2021-10-08 09:28:51 +0000 UTCI know after The Shining you were re-evaluating your horror picks. Just saying Sleepy Hollow has romance, comedy, ...and maybe the slightest—hardly noticeable, really—tiny bit of blood and gore.
Michael Hawk
2021-10-08 08:10:22 +0000 UTCI think a fellow movie goer summed up my feelings about the movie opening weekend. I don’t know who it was but his companion asked what he thought. “I mostly enjoyed it but the problem is I don’t know what it was. It wasn’t Bram Stoker’s Dracula I know that much.” The book is a favorite of mine and so strong I wish someone would just make it straight. As mentioned above Nosferatu was great. I’d also recommend Shadow of the Vampire for an interesting take on the Nosferatu movie itself.
Robert Holmes
2021-10-08 07:58:13 +0000 UTCYou're correct, the Count is one of the most depicted characters in film and television ever. I think he runs neck and neck (no pun intended) with another creation of Victorian England, Sherlock Holmes...which is ironic, considering that had the two characters been real they would have been contemporaries and Holmes would almost certainly have been called in by Scotland Yard to investigate the murders surrounding Dracula's lair in Carfax Abbey. (Since both Sherlock Holmes and Dracula are now public domain characters, several authors have explored the Holmes-vs.-Dracula scenario already, with different outcomes each time.) The first "great" adaptation of the DRACULA novel was actual an illegal one. The German director F. W. Murnau couldn't get Stoker's widow to sell him the rights, so he just ripped her off, creating the classic silent horror film NOSFERATU. In this movie Dracula is now "Count Orlok" and looks quite inhuman and terrifying. But a few years after this, Mrs. Stoker sold the THEATRICAL rights to a family friend named Hamilton Deane, and Deane and another playwright, John Balderston, created a DRACULA play which was a huge hit and which was far more influential in establishing the character in the public's mind and in shaping later, authorized film adaptations of the story. When the play crossed the Atlantic and opened on Broadway, their new Dracula - Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi - became THE Dracula, for all time. Universal Pictures, a smaller studio running out of money, took a chance and bought the film rights and hired Lugosi to reprise his role and the movie was a smash and led to Universal becoming "the horror studio" for a while, as they made other horror classics like FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY and THE WOLF MAN. Many later Dracula movies remained more faithful to the play than the book. This film's selling point was that it was the first Dracula movie to follow the book's storyline more closely. I think they oversold this marketing angle - Dracula and Mina aren't reunited lovers, for one thing, and Dracula is not a tragic figure or an antihero in the book but a bloodsucking monster. I know lots of folks love Anthony Hopkins here but I think he plays Van Helsing all wrong. To me the real star of this film is the direction. It just looks gorgeous. Coppola used outdated cinematography techniques to give it a classical, old-fashioned feel, and that combined with the radically strange costuming and set design gives it an unforgettable look and feel. And the score is fantastic as well.
Patrick Flanagan
2021-10-08 07:40:47 +0000 UTC"Someone told me Dracula is the second most portrayed character..." That was me! I said that! I'm basically a YouTube star now! LOL (first is Sherlock Holmes for anyone curious) So since you asked about Dracula's "origin story": this was pretty much it. Dracula began as an 1897 novel by Bram Stoker, and this movie is probably the most faithful adaptation of the novel ever made. It's still not totally faithful - for instance the whole bit about Mina being the reincarnation of Dracula's love from a past time is not in the book (that may have been taken from The Mummy with Boris Karloff). But it's reasonably close. The most famous and iconic version is still the 1931 film starring Bela Legosi. It's... not a great movie, but it is a great performance. Legosi is THE Count Dracula that every cheap Halloween costume is based on and that Count von Count is supposed to sound like. As for other versions I'm sure many here will recommend the 1958 version starring Christopher Lee (Saruman in the Lord of the Rings) as the Count. Although I haven't seen it, I understand the 1979 Frank Langella version is possibly the most romantic. And if you're a reader, my vote would be to just read the original novel. It's still a page-turner despite its age, and because the various film adaptations always change so much it's still surprisingly fresh. And then of course there are comedy versions - Love at First Bite is still easily the best - and a whole genre of vampire movies which use Dracula as inspiration for original characters - The Lost Boys and Interview With The Vampire are probably the best of those.
Robin T
2021-10-08 07:38:27 +0000 UTCI don't know Dracula movies that well, so I couldn't recommend another version of it. But if you want a movie with a good romantic love story that also fits for Halloween, please react to Ghost. I can't recall if I recommended it before, but I think you'd love it, and it has just the right mix of everything you want.
Raven Dark
2021-10-08 07:31:07 +0000 UTCToday was my Friday, I'm a few chardonnays in, this is gonna be a fun watch 🤓
Joe D. MacGuffinstuff
2021-10-08 07:25:46 +0000 UTCShort and sweet description. My guess is it was okay? :) The scariest thing about this movie was Keanu doing an english accent....Badly.
Brian McGovern
2021-10-08 07:21:46 +0000 UTC
