I do know somebody, someplace, shall be shocked that I’ve Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” on the prime of the listing, however I stand by this alternative, rattling it! Coppola’s 1992 vampire extravaganza is a symphony of horrors; an enormous, daring, bloody, erotic, gothic, over-the-top spookshow stuffed with mind-blowing sensible visible results (no digital trickery right here; all of the particular results are executed in-camera).
Coppola and screenwriter James V. Hart take Bram Stoker’s textual content and rework it right into a sprawling romantic epic, the place Dracula (as performed by Gary Oldman sporting numerous types of make-up) is a tragic determine in search of his long-lost love. He is nonetheless a monster, thoughts you, however you kind of perceive the place he is coming from. This sympathetic tackle the character is much faraway from Stoker’s ebook, and but, the movie additionally stays nearer to its supply materials than most different “Dracula” diversifications. A stacked solid (together with a scene-stealing Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing), beautiful costumes courtesy of Eiko Ishioka, and a killer, bombastic musical rating through Wojciech Kilar, all come collectively to create the last word vampire film. Hollywood hasn’t churned out something even remotely near this since its launch.
We spoke extra about Dracula and our favourite vampire films on right now’s episode of the /Movie Day by day podcast, which you’ll be able to hearken to beneath:
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