Bram Stoker's Dracula

Starring: Tom Waits, Sadie Frost, Gary Oldman, et al.

Product Description

From Academy Award®-winning director Francis Ford Coppola (1974 Best Director, The Godfather: Part II) comes the classic and chilling tale about the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian prince (Gary... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 043396514195
• Release Date: September 1997
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Director: Francis Coppola
• Starring: Tom Waits, Sadie Frost, Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Bill Campbell, Cary Elwes, Richard Grant, Anthony Hopkins
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

For the dead travel fast

Not too many movies try to stick close to the story or at least the essence of what the story is about. You get a lot of bloodsuckers without the true story as seen from the time. This presentation kept all the main characters and kept them as they were meant to be. Many of the actual lines from the original story are presented here. The basic story is of Dracula losing his love only to find her again four centuries later. Well, not quite the original thrust of the story, but it fits well as the main thread. Drac goes to London to start a new life and finds food for thought. Munching on Sadie Frost can defrost anyone’s soul. And Winona Ryder makes a tasty Mina. Keanu Reeves picks up a British accent. Two major drawbacks, keeping this from being a top-star movie, are that many of the visual effects are hokey and threaten to undo the pathos of the story. And what is with the dumb-looking Renfield outfits? Secondly, the background music turns out to be foreground music, and the actor's lines get lost in the noise. Of course, the ending does not match the book, but it works for the story being told. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Just a note that if you are buying this for Blu-ray, you are missing the point of the movie. Yes, the blood is bloodier, and you can see the good bumps on naked flesh, but it does not change the story one iota. I only bought a Blu-ray because it is the technology of the time.