Back in 1979 there was a series called Cliffhangers, with three separate stories being told in serial format. One of the series was a Dracula story, with the Count teaching a night class at a local college. It was cheesy and wonderful, and they did a lot with his age-old loneliness. Michael Nouri made a wonderful Dracula.
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Connie Neil - Sep 28, 2014 4:08:22 pm PDT #27815 of 30000
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Gris - Sep 28, 2014 4:10:21 pm PDT #27816 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I don't think I've seen a single Dracula movie. I own Nosferatu, if that counts, but have somehow missed all of the actual Draculas. Bela Lugosi and forward.
I've read the book, though.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 28, 2014 4:17:58 pm PDT #27817 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Did anyone besides me ever see the PBS Dracula, with Louis Jourdan as the Count? My personal favorite.
I have this on DVD because I heard great things about it but haven't gotten around to watching it yet (and not sure where it's buried in the boxes of DVDs I haven't sorted yet - ahem).
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 28, 2014 4:30:21 pm PDT #27818 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh yes! That one followed the book fairly closely, didn't it?
The Langella version had the creepiest depiction of one of Dracula's victims (Mina rather than Lucy, and Van Helsing's daughter to boot) that I can recall: [link]
It also had that great scene where Dracula fled from a confrontation with Van Helsing by jumping out a window and becoming a wolf in mid-leap: [link]
Frankenbuddha - Sep 28, 2014 5:03:26 pm PDT #27819 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The Langella version had the creepiest depiction of one of Dracula's victims (Mina rather than Lucy, and Van Helsing's daughter to boot) that I can recall
Oh yes, muttering to her father and coming at him looking utterly foul. Deeply disturbing. And they had Lucy as Seward's daughter, I believe. I like those changes, quite honestly. I never quite got the why of all Lucy's suitors in the original. Which, to be fair, they kept in the Coppola version.
Amy - Sep 28, 2014 5:35:30 pm PDT #27820 of 30000
Because books.
I remember seeing what I thought was maybe a British version of Dracula on a hotel TV one summer when I was a kid. It was all very foggy and sort of gray and everyone had an accent.
(My dad used to travel -- sales -- and take us with him, and when he and my mom were entertaining clients, my brother and I watched some questionable TV up in the room. I saw the film of the Hindenburg that way, too.)
quester - Sep 28, 2014 5:48:10 pm PDT #27821 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I described the Langella Dracula as Dracula meets Wuthering Heights in a review I wrote for a school newpaper back in the day.
beekaytee - Sep 28, 2014 5:55:15 pm PDT #27822 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
The Langella Dracula is the one true...though I love some pretty bad versions too.
I have to say that I was shocked one year when I threw a huge Halloween party...like 40 people at once...I put that film on my iMac (that long ago) thinking it would just be in the background.
The entire assemblage ground to a halt, flopped on the floor and remained riveted until the last moment. Somehow I didn't think anyone would be interested.
Instead, some called it their favorite ever and others thanked me for introducing them to it!
Zenkitty - Sep 28, 2014 6:05:16 pm PDT #27823 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The film clip of Mina reminded me. Yes, that was the one true Dracula movie for me.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 28, 2014 6:35:29 pm PDT #27824 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The Langella Dracula is the one true
The ridiculous laser-tastic love scenes lost that movie for me. They looked like a James Bond credit sequence.