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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]
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.
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.)
I described the Langella Dracula as Dracula meets Wuthering Heights in a review I wrote for a school newpaper back in the day.
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!
The film clip of Mina reminded me. Yes, that was the one true Dracula movie for me.
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.
I don't really remember the movie itself, but I do remember liking Langella's Dracula.
Did anyone besides me ever see the PBS Dracula, with Louis Jourdan as the Count? My personal favorite.
That's a great mini-series, and one of the most faithful to the novel.
For all the changes that the Langella version makes to the plot, it's one of the best versions for sumptuous gothic atmosphere and actually creepy bits. Lucy the vampire is delightfully ghoulish.
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.
The Eldergoth Cabal That Does Not Exist is going to send you a sternly worded letter. Please open a window for the bat messenger, and take down all wreaths of garlic.
I saw Dracula Dead and Loving it.