Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Storyline
When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker—the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta—obsessed vampire hunter, Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
Directors
Cast
Cary Elwes, Richard E. Grant, Gary Oldman, Monica Bellucci, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Cully Fredricksen, Anthony Hopkins, Sadie Frost, Billy Campbell, Nancy Linehan Charles, Jules Sylvester, Tom Waits, Daniel Newman, Jay Robinson, I.M. Hobson, Maud Winchester, Honey Lauren, Michaela Bercu, Florina Kendrick, Laurie Franks, Octavian Cadia, Robert Getz, Dagmar Stanec, Eniko Öss, Tatiana von Furstenberg, Hubert Wells, Judi Diamond, Robert Buckingham
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Reviews
78
Interestingly, Coppola has eschewed state-of-the-art special effects in favor of a panoply of archaic film-school tricks -- reversing the film, multiple exposures, playing with the shutter speed -- that give his Dracula a stylized, almost hyper-real clarity and a wonderfully singular weirdness.
75
Oldman and Ryder and Hopkins pant with eagerness. The movie is an exercise in feverish excess, and for that if for little else, I enjoyed it.
70
The New York Times
Dracula has the nervy enthusiasm of the work of a precocious film student who has magically acquired a master's command of his craft. It's surprising, entertaining and always just a little too much.
70
It's sexy and bloody and, to my amazement, R-rated, but in a stylized, Grand Kabuki manner that lifts the action (including the sex and violence) from our normal sphere of reality to the realm of timeless, primal tales.
70
Coppola brings the old spook story alive -- well, undead -- as a luscious, infernal romance.
