Gary Oldman

Winona Ryder

Anthony Hopkins

Keanu Reeves

Sadie Frost

Cary Elwes

Richard E. Grant

Billy Campbell

Tom Waits

Monica Bellucci

Florina Kendrick

Michaela Bercu

Jay Robinson

I.M. Hobson

Laurie Franks

Maud Winchester

Octavian Cadia

Robert Getz

Dagmar Stansova

Eniko Öss

Nancy Linehan Charles

Tatiana von Fürstenberg

Jules Sylvester

Hubert Wells

Daniel Newman

Honey Lauren

Judi Diamond

Robert Buckingham

Cully Fredricksen

Ele Bardha

Alain Blazevic

Mark Borkowski

Tina Cote

Christina Fulton

Jeffery Thomas Johnson

John F. Kearney

Paul Klar

Michael Laren

Adamo Palladino

Philip Pucci

Heidi Schooler

Damon Stout

Diamanda Galás

Carol Schwartz

John Blake

Kent H. Jorgensen

Florian Ballhaus

Ralph Nelson Jr.

Harry Cheney

Sanford Ponder

Wilma Garscadden-Gahret

Linda Folk

J. Patrick Daily

Mark L. Mangino

Roman Coppola

Greg Cannom

Christopher S. Aud

Michèle Burke

Tom C. McCarthy

David B. Cohn

John Sisti

Cindy Marty

Peter Giuliano

Jeffrey Thorin

David F. Van Slyke

James R. Tynes

David E. Stone

J.H. Arrufat

Mark R. La Pointe

Jeff Gomillion

Kate Davey

David M. Dunlap

Andrew Precht

Mark Gordon

Patricia Churchill

Greg Stewart

Aaron Rochin

Dennis Sands

Jackson Schwartz

Alison Savitch

Catt LeBaigue

Marian Wallace

Wojciech Kilar

Leslie Shatz

Donah Bassett

John F. Reynolds

George W. Scott

Michael Apted

Anne Goursaud

Robert O'Connor

Bram Stoker

Michael Ballhaus

Francis Ford Coppola

James V. Hart

Victoria Thomas

David Williams

Tony Epper

Joey Box

Steven Chambers

Sven-Ole Thorsen

Bobby Bass

Michael Lee Baron

Bobby Burns

Ray Bickel

Clint Lilley

William H. Burton Jr.

Jimmy Ortega

Tommy J. Huff

Clay M. Lilley

Mike Watson

Hal Burton

Cisco Valderrama

R.J. Chambers

Christopher Warren

Gene Warren Jr.

Johnny Knoxville

Fred Fuchs

Mike Mignola

Thomas E. Sanders

Eiko Ishioka

Garrett Lewis

Thomas Rosales Jr.

Susan Landau Finch

Glen Scantlebury

John Veitch

Nicholas C. Smith

Charles Mulvehill

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

American Zoetrope

Osiris Films

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

This Seductive, Thrilling, love story has some Bite! Based from the book and is a true masterpiece. Gary Oldman plays Dracula and simply makes this movie. His obsession with Winona Ryder characters is relentless and heart chilling. Don't worry Keanu Reeves doesn't ruin it, he actually did a great job. Anthony Hopkins plays the role of Dr. Van Helsing. We all know his story now thanks to Hugh Jackman. Some brief nudity and a HOT scene with Winona as she runs though the garden in her PJ's. Not only do I gave Bram Stoker's Dracula 5 stars, BUT I rate it in my Top 10 all-time. MUST SEE!

Andres Gomez

The script is an unevenly good adaptation of the novel. It resolves better Dracula's aims and motivations through the love story.  Also, it provides a more understandable glue to join the 4 men chasing Dracula from a XXth century point of view and removes unimportant characters having a more "round" story.

However, due to some changes certain parts are now incoherent since they were not properly adapted to the other changes. In addition, other parts are totally impossible to follow due to the amount of details only commented quickly along the movie.

Costumes and general artistic work is superb but it drives the movie to some extreme stravaganza that, in the case of the actors' performances make some parts of the movie completely overacted.

In any case, I think this is an iconic movie worth watching more than once.

Although it certainly won't make you easily forget earlier interpretations of the seminal horrific character by Max Schreck, Bela Lugosi, Sir Christopher Lee or Klaus Kinski, Gary Oldman definitely finds a way under your skin. As well, the resoundingly sumptuous cinematography will sweep you off your feet--unless you're dead to begin with... =)

Gets worse on repeat viewings. 

Francis Ford Coppola's take on the Dracula legend sees Gary Oldman as the Count, who as a warrior prince returns from battle to find his true love, who after believing him to have been killed, has committed suicide. Renouncing his Christianity he pledges to return from the death to enact revenge on humanity. Century's later he is back to keep his word but becomes infatuated with Mina (Winona Ryder) who bears a resemblance to his long dead true love.

Forget the Bram Stoker bit, this is liberty taken wholesale, and forget any notion of this being a scary Dracula movie, for this is Gothic romance opulence. There is no doubting that as a production design goes, it's top dollar, costumes, photography, score, sets and puppetry etc, all the money is up there on the screen to please the eyes and the ears. But the narrative shift to make Dracula a tragic longing figure is a mistake, as is several casting decisions and performances. It's actually easier to say who comes out of it with credit, so step up Tom Waits as Renfield and Richard E. Grant as Dr. John Seward. Oldman is committed to the lead role, and has tortured soul down pat, but someone thought it was a good idea to make him an old ponce and stick a set of buttocks on his head! You just can't take the character seriously from the moment he appears on screen.

There's some vampire erotica as Coppola caters for the horny horror faithful, though these scenes play out like an after midnight MTV video, so not really very sexy at all. While there's a lot of fun to be had, yes you read right, with a number of scenes inserted within the dull narrative: did the great Anthony Hopkins just sniff the cheese and Keanu Reeves attempt a posh British accent? Aaargh! It should have been a Gothic classic, but clearly Coppola was out of his depth tackling such a genre. After giving myself over ten years between returning to watch the film again, I can say with confidence that it's a film that gets worse on repeat viewings. That is unless you like unintentional comedy pictures? 3/10

CinemaSerf

Gary Oldman is super in this hammy reimagining of the tale of the legendary Count Dracula. Having lured his lawyer - the unsuspecting, and frankly rather insipid, "Harker" (Keanu Reeves) to his Transylvanian Castle he employs cunning and guile to use him to acquire "Carfax Abbey" in England. He also has designs on the young man's glamorous fiancée "Mina" (Winona Ryder) and is soon set to acquire much more than just the eerie stately pile. Luckily, "Prof. Van Helsing" (Anthony Hopkins) is on hand to help our rather hapless hero and perhaps they can thwart the evil intentions of their vampiric visitor? Francis Ford Coppola presents us here with a highly stylised interpretation of the legend. At times it does border on the Hammer style of production with the gore and peril really unconvincing for most of the film. The heavily made up Reeves is easy enough on the eye, but his accent is tougher on the ears and his performance is more about box office than generating any sense of menace as his red-clothed nemesis marauds around in a wig Marie Antoinette would have found fitting. It does send itself up, and that works - there is plenty that is theatrical about it, and that is what helps make this iteration distinctive. Oldman looks even inch the megalomaniac as he effortlessly glides, purrs and munches his way from Romania to Victorian England. Ryder delivers well - her part has very little substance to it, yet she does rise above the all too obvious damsel in distress persona. There are also valuable supporting efforts from Richard E. Grant and the eagle eyed might spot sword and sandals veteran Jay Robinson as "Hawkins". Wojciech Kilar's score helps create quite an atmosphere too, especially as we enter the last half hour of against the clock drama. I didn't much care for the way the ending is portrayed but after two hours of quickly paced and colourful entertainment, that maybe didn't matter so much. This really does need big screen visuals to have any real impact, and if you can find a cinema screening then this is very much at the better end of the Dracula genre of output - even if it does play rather fast and loose with the book!

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