5/11/2023 0 Comments Dracula bram stokerIt’s a prime opportunity to bathe once more in its over-the-top glory. For its anniversary, it’s getting an ultra-HD deluxe rerelease on Blu-ray and will be back in cinemas across the country. Three decades on, the movie still has a passionate fanbase – precisely because it is so singular. It took three Oscars, for best costume design, make-up and sound editing. Earning $215 million worldwide, the movie went on to be one of the most successful projects of Coppola’s career. Sadie Frost as Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker’s DraculaĪudiences felt differently. Unimpressed, critics dubbed the movie “Bonfire of the Vampires” after the notorious 1990 flop The Bonfire of the Vanities. In fact, shadows move of their own accord, freed from the laws of physics to menace the unwary. No colour is left unsaturated, no dark shadow undermilked for its portents of woe. Informed by Italian giallo horror, it turns everything up to 11. They’re still delicious to mimic 30 years on, but it is the sheer beauty of the film that secures its place at the pinnacle of gothic filmmaking.ĭismissed before its release by Hollywood critics, who deemed the production too strange, bloody and violent, Coppola’s take on the classic vampire tale leaves nothing on the table. “I don’t drink… wine.” “Listen to the children of the night… what sweet music they make.” “They say you are a man of good… taste.” Delivered with wry danger by Gary Oldman as the Count, so many lines from the 1992 movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula were instantly iconic.
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