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Wowwww the gothic horror vibes were off the charts in this one!! This one freaked me out!!! As I say in the outro, please go easy on me as far as the romance part goes as I was feeling the gothic horror vibes more than anything else. The music, the cinematography, the lore!!! Spooktacular!

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Dan Lapointe

For me this is the definitive Dracula film. Gary Oldman is superb as Dracula. He just shines in every scene he’s in. One of the best gothic horror movies made in the past 30 plus years.

BND

I've never seen this one. The only thing I know about it is that Keanu Reeves puts on a terrible accent 😂 Looking forward to watching this.

Rob Nichols

Good version of Dracula, with some very stylish cinematography and great score. But I prefer the '79 version with Frank Langella and Donald Pleasance, and score by John Williams.

Harvey Lee

Yes it'a quite notorious for that And Winona Ryder puts on an equally rubbish accent 😅 I do impressions as a part of my performance so I can say that (I insist) Putting that aside Gary Oldman is awesome in this holding your attention with blood curdling charisma . Can hardly wait for this !!

Jason Scade

"Listen to them — the children of the Patreon. What music they make!" 🐺 🐺 🐺 🎶 🎵

Harvey Lee

Dracula is a must see for this season , one of the more faithful adaptations of the original novel The Gothic atmosphere is so captivating with great cinematography and cool practical effects ( I can forgive a couple of bad casting choices and accents lol 😉) Apart from that Gary Oldman is so charismatic as Dracula and just pulls your attention right in there with him . Awesome choice Jen I'll be watching this come the spooky evening and expecting you to jump at a few moments ♥️🧛🖤

Banes

I've been hoping you'd watch this - excited to watch when there's time. Wow, I'm curious about your take on the romance part of things, since you say to go easy on you, haha. This movie is pretty awesome, but also kind of terrible in other ways. That's what makes it so worthy of reactions and discussion xD. Love it!!

Banes

Hopefully you'll eventually dig in to the 30's and 40's Universal Horror movies at some point - Frankenstein, Dracula and the rest!

Banes

Hey...now you can watch 'Dracula Dead and Loving It!' as well xD

William Rosmer

this movie and one other have convinced me that keanu just can't do accents

William Rosmer

this is a great adaptation, though they do make dracula a romantic hero instead of an irredeemable monster. i'd argue that's the biggest change from the book.

William Rosmer

The character of Dracula is historically supposed to be Vlad "The Impaler" Țepeș so yes he was impaling people in the opening

Real Raw News

This makes me feel so old since I was 30 years old when I saw this in theatres lol

Kevin Kuenn

"Frig you shadow!" has some real "Piss off ghost!" energy.

Kevin Kuenn

It wasn't all his fault, he had no time to prepare as he was a last-minute replacement for Johnny Depp, who pulled out of the part unexpectedly.

William Rosmer

speaking of Depp is the lead in one of my favorite vampire movies

William Rosmer

van helsing is a public domain character that originated in the dracula novel. the movie van helsing is about him, but it's more an original story about him.

Chaos T

I forgot how good the cinematography and direction is in this film. BTW Jen, it is believed the Dracula character is based on a real figured named Vlad the Impaler who was Prince of Wallachia in the 1400's. Though some of his exploits are highly exaggerated, there is some grain of truth to the monstrous things he did to earn that surname.

Nicholas Bielik

There is a real tension in this version of the story between the original novel's presentation of Dracula and the love story they've invented for this film. They fully make him a monster here, but they also want Mina to fall for him and the audience to be on board with that despite the absolutely horrible stuff we've seen him do. It doesn't really work, so I think Jen's response to all of this is very understandable. IMO the film is better when it leans into the monstrous nature of the character. In the novel, he is also supposed to be suave and charming in his guise in London society but that is just another mask hiding the predator. Despite all this, this is easily one of my favorite Dracula films. The filmmaking and effects work are brilliant, and the cast are great fun to watch (Oldman and Hopkins are especially in top form here). Winona and Keanu are, perhaps, awkward fits (and their accents are not good), but, over the years, I've warmed to their performances.

Ernie McKrackin

I'm with you Jen. I felt Mina was in danger. I was not into the romance at all.

Geoff S.

I'm glad you had that take on Dracula. It's refreshing to see a girl not googly eyed over vampires. The priest in the beginning was also Anthony Hopkins as well as Van Helsing. Renfield is played by singer songwriter Tom Waits. l especially like his albums Rain Dogs and Bone Machine. Vlad III, Vlad the Impaler was a real nobleman in Romania. He is still considered a national hero there for repelling the Ottoman Turks. The stories about him were that he impaled and tortured thousands of people, many for petty crimes. I read that in one town you could leave a golden goblet in the middle of the town square and it would not be stolen because people feared the punishment so much. He even once nailed the Turkish ambassadors turbans to their heads because they would not remove them in front of him. It's also said he dined in a field with thousands of people impaled around his table while dipping his bread in their blood.

Carlisle Richards

Although Dracula is somewhat sympathetic in this, don't worry ... this is more horror and gothic than romance. It's just a retelling of a classic monster. He needs to die, you just understand why he's messed up. The sympathetic figure is Keanu Reeves. 1. Because of that accent, and 2. Because outside of Lucy, he kind of gets the worst of all this.

Yann Laliberte

I am only talking for myself but I really think you shouldn't worry about being honest and giving your real thoughts despite what we think. Personally, I have read the book before seeing the movie and always hated that Mia was so into Dracula but I guess Coppolla wanted to add a love story in his movie. The scene where the behead the vampire Lucy is waaaayyyy scarier in the book by the way. Also, I am more annoyed that you missed "Love song for a vampire" by Annie Lennox in the credit. You would have loved it.

BND

Wow this was great! I thought she was under his spell also until she started saying how she remembers things from her past, like where they used to live and things like that. And then when he was reluctant to bite her and turn her I understood that he really loved her and didnt' want her to be cursed like him.

Jason Scade

Fab rousing reaction! This was amazing in the cinema in 1992. I sold coffin loads of the laserdisc. 12:37 to 12:47 Superb camera trickery when the very ominous looking coach-driver reaches out to pull Harker into the carriage.. his arm stretches an impossible (supernatural) distance in order to reach Harker. 13:10 Yes, it is Dracula in disguise, driving the coach. 13:30 According to Transylvanian superstition mentioned in the book, the blue flame circles rising from the ground mark location(s) of buried treasure and/or a supernatural evil presence. 29:07 Dracula reads Harker's letters telepathically. 32:58 When Harker is exploring the forbidden, surreal rooms of Castle Dracula, he comes across an abandoned vanity/bedroom belonging to one of the Count's vampire brides. He finds and opens a perfume bottle but it defies gravity and drips upwards. The director said he wanted to establish that the laws of physics warp/invert around Count Dracula and within his unholy domain. 47:28 Trick cinematography again, the Count catches Mina's falling item in an impossible (supernatural) manner. 1:29:23 "Oh my God! That cut to the beef! Get out of here!" 😅👍👍 Shout out for Gary Oldman's currently ongoing UK spy series 'Slow Horses'. It's A+++ tier TV. Critically acclaimed. 98% score on RT. Shout out for Anthony Hopkins & Gary Oldham in Hannibal (2001), set 10 years after Dr. Lecter's escape in The Silence of the Lambs. Scored by Hans Zimmer. 💜 Dir by Ridley Scott. It's a beautiful gothic masterpiece.

Stephen Dias

As far as I recall, no, the whole reincarnated love thing is not in the novel. Many of the elements from the novel are in this movie, though. It supposedly gets much closer to the novel than many other depictions. I'm glad they did finally explain the boxes of dirt from his homeland, which is in the novel. As far as Mina (whose maiden name is Murray, BTW--I don't know why the movie doesn't mention it) being released from vampirism once Dracula is dead, they do seem to imply that in the movie as the scar on Mina's forehead (from the communion wafer that Van Helsing placed there) has disappeared. If they had included a scene afterwards (with Mina going out to Jonathan Harker and the others), it would have been more obvious. No, this never felt like a romance to me. I always thought of it more as some kind of mind control.

Kevin Sommerfield

Dracula in this movie is a tragic figure because of his wife, but he was also a ruthless killer who impaled thousands of people BEFORE he became a vampire, so you are definitely right to feel afraid of him. Thanks for the reaction!

Jorge Hernandez

I would say you had the appropriate reaction for a first time viewing. I watch this movie every year around Halloween because it's a favorite of mine. For a long time I watched it and judged Mina harshly for her switch but now I don't feel like that at all. I really enjoy their tragic love story and it makes the movie for me now.

JPDotCom23

You should read the book, the chapter that deals with the Demeter is most frightening, I've yet to see the movie they made of this chapter but as a read, it is quite scary.

JPDotCom23

Parts of the movie were based on Vlad the Impaler, and the love story was added to connect both stories, because people, over time, believed Bram Stoker loosely based Dracula on Vlad the Impaler. The love story was writer James Hart's doing or perhaps Coppola's.

JPDotCom23

I love this movie, am a huge Francis Coppola fan, was very happy and excited he did this and was and is a great movie, saw it in theatres at the time, was and is very stylish and a very guy movie, probably why a lot of guys love it more than girls, we don't require explanation, it's just a pretty cool movie and Gary Oldman was fantastic.

Geoff S.

I'm surprised Jen didn't wait to see who wrote the score. She's usually so in tune with that aspect. His name is Wojciech Kilar a Polish composer. Mostly foreign movies but he did do the music for The Truman Show.

Matt

Great film, I've seen it a few times now and I'm right with you Jen, I've never felt sorry for Dracula and although its intended to be a love story between them I've always just seen it as Mina never truly loved him she was just under his spell

John L

Nah, I don't think you should feel self-conscious about your reaction. But, I also don't think Mina's attraction to him is completely about her own moral failings. I think it has to do with him employing dark powers to make her fall in love with him through force of will. I think she does have sympathy for him, but if her mind were her own - as it is some of the time, when she is reminded of her love for Jonathan - she wouldn't choose to be with Dracula. Dracula also makes Lucy go for him and she is definitely not in her right mind. I don't see it as a romance in the traditional sense at all. Any romance between Dracula and Mina is inherently twisted and I think Coppola portrays that, even if it's not always obvious.

Kit Taylor

Great job Jen, would love to see you watch "Nosferatu", the new one. Johnny Depp's daughter plays the female lead. Willem Dafoe plays Van Helsing. Even though I already knew Mina was his re-incarnated wife, a big clue is that Winona Ryder plays his wife in the very beginning (Elisabeta) as well as Mina.

Adam Harris

Yes, Mina was under Dracula's control, and was being transformed into a vampire, just like Lucy. She didn't really love him, and that's why she couldn't kill Jonathan. The movie adds the reincarnated lover element, but the rest of it is pretty faithful to the original book. Once Dracula was killed, Mina returned to normal. The novel concludes saying that she and Jonathan end up happily married, and they had a son, who they named Quincey after their friend.

Jen Murray

I usually look up the composer before I watch something and I did with this and didn't recognize the name. The music freaked me out, as I said and I didn't want to sit through it any more lol

TigerMyth

Now that you have your Dracula lore initiated. You need to add What We Do in the Shadows as a comedy half hour show when you get to the end of Futurama. Or at least add it to your big list for voting if it isn't already there.

The Irish Buddhist

The cinematography from this Film is quite unique and I do appreciate that in the opening scenes they pull from the origins of Dracula with Vlad (Actual History). The history behind Vlad "The Impaler" is pretty wild and what manifest from it all to what we now know as Dracula is quite interesting. Scary in some respects, but interesting.

rocketdave

Booo, you stopped the movie before the Annie Lennox song.

Erik Lundmark

That was amazing, thank you Jen :-) Your points are valid, imo. If you didn't buy her being Elisabeta incarnate, she would be under his spell and control. I actually think Winona Ryder sells both ideas very well. But yeah it would be hard to see him as a tragic figure if he's controlling her thoughts. But the idea must have been that she is controlled by Elisabeta/herself, and falls in love, as it was always meant to be them, forever. I read the book a couple of months ago for the first time, and wow is it different. Both in content and tone. Not a horrific work, more like a re-telling of a long nightmare (the book is all told through the characters diaries, and newspaper articles). I struggled a bit with the old English (not my 1st language), but not enough to stop me from enjoying it. I highly recommend anyone to read it; I see were the film "Nosferatu" from 2024 came up with the look of their film, that movie looks like the book reads in my head. First chapters with Jonathan and D are amazing, it draws you in... But no, there is no romantic story between Mina and Dracula in the book, to your question. Sadly, I really missed that aspect from the book. I think adding that in was a good idea, I think it made it a better movie, without it it could have turned into a forgettable monster movie. But I also think people have over-sold the idea that this is the most accurate version of the book on screen... Close, but no. But I don't mind at all. Great movie, despite it's flaws. Too much focus is put on the bad accents in this movie, not just by K. Reeves. He was miscast, full stop. But without him on the bill, the movie wouldn't have gotten made; he got the funding to happen by saying yes. Not his fault that he was wrong for the role. Love all the practical effects too, there was (almost) no green screen used, and no c.g.i. Most of it was double exposed film, which enhances the spook-factor to me. It could look this good if it Was made in the 70s... Behind-the-scenes documentary on this movie is a must see for any fan, or movie-maker. Really celebrates movie-making as an art-form. Not enough of that going around these days imo...

Jeremy Nuss

I like your take. I didn’t buy the love story and didn’t know how the book was different. I’m glad you looked it up and feel that I’d like the book better. They should have been more true to the book. Honestly I’m not a fan of this movie.

Julian San

When Jen realized she and Mina have the same last name, I couldn’t stop laughing 🤣

Arkane

Jen, he's Dracula, of course it's creepy. Quite a natural instict given the blood sucking, rat transformations, and a whole lot of evil evil stuff he does in the movie. Not shipping Dracula and Mina is no controversy in my opinion.

Clay F

+1 for Nosferatu (2024)

Clay F

Mina was under his spell – that was no love story. Dracula aficionados like this movie because apparently it is one of the more faithful adaptations of the book. The nudity in the film is said to serve a purpose. In Victorian era England, biting a victim was understood as a penetrative, pseudo-sexual act? "For modern audiences, some other means of conveying this idea was necessary. Coppola [awesome director] 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."

JFM3

As best as I can figure, this IS a tragic love story, and your impression is ALSO correct.