dracula

[micheal2818]

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HELP, i=I have been looking for a dracula / vampire film
for many years the only thing i remember about the movie is the finall seen. [ after they kill dracula the girl he changed becomes human again. they are standing on an old sailing ship
(like mayflower) docked. she is confused and scared and gives (i think her father) him a hug as the sun rises. She looks up see's
dracula in bat form fly away, smiles and her fangs are back.]

please if anyone recognises this fim please tell me.

[DraculaInDallas]

sounds like Frank Langella's version of Dracula....circa 1979 I think?

[phantomstranger]

This sounds to me to be the 1979 Dracula with Frank Langella. But it's not a bat that flies off at the end, it's Dracula's cloak blowing in the wind.

[horror_master]

Sounds kinda of cool

[ShankS]

Starsky&Hutch.

[movieman64]

I agree with the 1979 version of Dracula, they are sleeping together in a coffin in the ships hold, a fight breaks out, Langella gets hooked to a hoist and is pulled up the mast into the sunlight.

Pretty good version, as least I like it, they show it on AMC all the time.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by movieman64
I agree with the 1979 version of Dracula, they are sleeping together in a coffin in the ships hold, a fight breaks out, Langella gets hooked to a hoist and is pulled up the mast into the sunlight.

Pretty good version, as least I like it, they show it on AMC all the time.


this was my first vampire movie .. i always liked it.

the slo-mo walking down the outside wall of the house was the coolest thing i ever saw up to that point.

Langella was a cool Dracula too .. i always pictured Dracula to look like that from then on.

[movieman64]

Being a Hammer film fan, Christopher Lee is one of my favorite Dracula actors. I think the Dan Curtis TV production with Jack Palance was a good version too.

Dracula is a Count, not a throat ripping monster as he is portrayed in some versions. I also think many people place "Dracula" and "Vampire" movies into the same group, which for me they are completly diffrent.

[The_Return]

Originally posted by movieman64
Being a Hammer film fan, Christopher Lee is one of my favorite Dracula actors. I think the Dan Curtis TV production with Jack Palance was a good version too.

Dracula is a Count, not a throat ripping monster as he is portrayed in some versions. I also think many people place "Dracula" and "Vampire" movies into the same group, which for me they are completly diffrent.

Well, Dracula IS a Vampire. Cant really be debated. Maybe not like all vampires, but he's still a Vampire.

[movieman64]

I agree that Dracula is a Vampire, but the movie(s) about, and thusly entitled "Dracula" are much diffrent then the films about "Vampires", The Lost Boys, The Forsaken, JC's Vampires, IMHO, but are usually all piled in one big mess.

[allmykids]

Vampire movis are my Fav. Interview with a vampire and Bram Stoker Are The Best!!

[movieman64]

Originally posted by allmykids
Vampire movis are my Fav. Interview with a vampire and Bram Stoker Are The Best!!



Good examples of a Vampire film, and a Dracula film. Gary Oldman plays such sinister roles, and played a good Dracula, IMO. I loved the sets/locations in IWAV, but Cruise and Pitt are not as convincing in their Vampire roles for my taste. Kirsten Dunst played a great part, kids in horror movies always creep me out.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by movieman64
Good examples of a Vampire film, and a Dracula film. Gary Oldman plays such sinister roles, and played a good Dracula, IMO. I loved the sets/locations in IWAV, but Cruise and Pitt are not as convincing in their Vampire roles for my taste. Kirsten Dunst played a great part, kids in horror movies always creep me out.

interview was too caught up in being 'pretty'
pretty brad pitt .. pounting at the camera .. a waste of his talents.
And Tom Cruise .. couldnt talk with fangs in his mouth.
I thought it was a bloated mess .. i couldnt get involved because all of the characters were unlikable.

Coppolas Dracula was more true to the book but the casting of Keanu and Winona was a huge mistake.
Oldman was a decent dracula but I'll never understand the people who say he was a sexy dracula .. he looked like a scruffy weed. I was really turned off by this film ... Hopkins playing another oddball ... fresh from playing lector in 'Lambs.

i dont know ... langellas dracula was so simple and to the point.

maybe you just always like your first one the best ...

[Death By Jell-O]

I dunno.....The first Dracula movie I saw was the original with Bela Lugosi....To me he is Dracula.....So suave.....

Never saw IWAV........Didn't appeal to me for some reason...

Bram Stoker's was good......I liked it, but still not all it was cracked up to be.......

[allmykids]

Originally posted by movieman64
Good examples of a Vampire film, and a Dracula film. Gary Oldman plays such sinister roles, and played a good Dracula, IMO. I loved the sets/locations in IWAV, but Cruise and Pitt are not as convincing in their Vampire roles for my taste. Kirsten Dunst played a great part, kids in horror movies always creep me out.

I thought brad Pitt was great as a vampire!!

[evil_blonde]

I somewhat liked Bram Stokers...
A little... hard to believe in some places, but I guess that's because it's old right? Heh...

[urgeok]

Originally posted by evil_blonde
I somewhat liked Bram Stokers...
A little... hard to believe in some places, but I guess that's because it's old right? Heh...


??? i found it to be EXTREMELY hard to believe in all places.
its a work of fiction about vampires.
What's to believe ?

[movieman64]

Originally posted by Death By Jell-O
I dunno.....The first Dracula movie I saw was the original with Bela Lugosi....To me he is Dracula.....So suave.....

Never saw IWAV........Didn't appeal to me for some reason...

Bram Stoker's was good......I liked it, but still not all it was cracked up to be.......



I thought Lugosi’s role was great, so many actors who have played the role since have adopted his thick accent in their performance, what a tribute. The film itself was more of a play made into a film IMHO.

[Tat2]

Christopher Lee is my all time favorite Dracula. The Hammer films beat the snot out of the others (Not including "The Satanic Rites of Dracula" which was kinda lame). I really liked the Jack Palance version also.

Even though Dracula is a Vampire, I don't lump Dracula and Vampire movies together. I like films like Vampires and The Forsaken to, maybe it is easier if you seperate Dracula from the rest.

For all of the Vampire/Dracula fans out there, check out a new book called "The Vampire Book - The Encyclopedia of the Undead - second edition" It has 920 pages of all things Vampire related...Cool as hell!

I like everything Vampire and Dracula related. I even liked "Shadow of the Vampire" with Willem Defoe. Guess its because I liked the Original Silent Version of Nosferatu.

[movieman64]

We just had a discussion on another thread about Dracula and Vampire movies all thrown in together. I agree there is a difference, although they are all technically vampires. Palance played a great Count in his 1973? Made for TV version, Coppala took a lot of inspiration from this movie.

[cheyenne3918]

Hello everyone. You can't get more "classic horror" than Dracula, maybe that's why there have been so many spin-offs. Stoker's book remains one of the most atmospheric and creepy I have read to this day and if you haven't yet read it, shame on you! Get ye hence and buy a copy.

Discussing the many actors who have played the Count is a bit like comparing all the actors who have played Bond - it's all a matter of taste (pun intended).

Lugosi was excellent, in a class of his own; his real-life eccentricity couldn't fail to shine through his performance.

I'm afraid Palance made me giggle. As did the actor who played him in Count Yorga (somebody refresh my mem'ry please).

Lee, to me, is the definitive Dracula, whether he likes to be reminded of the role or not. I have been fortunate enough to meet him several times when I was on the committee of the Dracula Society many years ago. Some might be interested (or not) to know his fave topic of conversation is - not movies, but GOLF.

[Tat2]

Count Yorga was played by Robert Quarry, released by American International Pictures.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by cheyenne3918
Lee, to me, is the definitive Dracula, whether he likes to be reminded of the role or not. I have been fortunate enough to meet him several times when I was on the committee of the Dracula Society many years ago. Some might be interested (or not) to know his fave topic of conversation is - not movies, but GOLF.

that doesnt suprise me in the least (golf)
Must have been amazing to work with him ..

Get a chance to ask him if he was close to Peter Cushing ?

[cheyenne3918]

Thanks for that Tat2. Robert Quarry that was indeed the guy.

Hi urgeok, regarding Peter Cushing, no I never did mention him to Christopher but I did know the lady who ran his fan club for many years, and she used to describe Cushing as religious, something of a loner, and utterly devoted to his wife. When she died, his entire world fell apart.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by cheyenne3918
Thanks for that Tat2. Robert Quarry that was indeed the guy.

Hi urgeok, regarding Peter Cushing, no I never did mention him to Christopher but I did know the lady who ran his fan club for many years, and she used to describe Cushing as religious, something of a loner, and utterly devoted to his wife. When she died, his entire world fell apart.


well, there's something you'll never hear in hollywood.

sad but touching..

[Tat2]

Originally posted by cheyenne3918
Thanks for that Tat2. Robert Quarry that was indeed the guy.

Hi urgeok, regarding Peter Cushing, no I never did mention him to Christopher but I did know the lady who ran his fan club for many years, and she used to describe Cushing as religious, something of a loner, and utterly devoted to his wife. When she died, his entire world fell apart.


No problem. I am a variable warehouse of usless knowledge!:D

[phantomstranger]

For some reason I really hated "Bram Stokers Dracula". I'm a lifelong fan of the character and have read the book and seen dozens of film versions but this film left me cold. I thought it was miscast and the reincarnation love story was stolen right out of "Dark Shadows". To me the best Dracula was Christopher Lee in "Horror Of Dracula" and Bela Lugosi in the 1931 Universal classic.

[Gojira]

Well my favorate Dracula movie is Hammers 1958 movie Dracula with christopher lee and Peter Cushing. The 1958 movie was advertised here in the USA as Horror of Dracula so as not to confuse the public with Universals 1931 Dracula movie. The 1st Dracula movie ever made was in Russia in1920. The 2nd Dracula movie was made in Hungry titled Drakula it stared Paul Askonoas as Dracula. Then in 1922 in Germany Prana Studios wanted to make a Dracula movie. They were stopped when Florence Stoker Bram Stokers widdow threatend to sue if the name of the movie was not changed. Prana made the movie and retitled the movie Nosferatu. Nosferatu is a movie about a Vampire named Graf Orlok not Dracula and actor Max Shreck played the role of Graf Orlok. However in 1931 Universal studios bought the rights of Dracula from Florence stoker and made 2 Count Dracula movie in 1931 an english version with actor Bela Lugosi and a spanish version with actor Carlos Vallarias. Hammer studios made a deal in the late 1950s and bought the rights of a few of Universals movie monsters one of them being Dracula. Hammer then hired actor Christopher Lee to play the role of Dracula. Lee was Dracula in 7 Hammer movies from 1958-1973. Other notible Draculas were Frank Langella in 78or 79 and Gary Oldman in Bram Stokers Dracula in 1992.