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Dracula

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Original title

Dracula

Year

1979

Running time

109 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

John Badham

Screenwriter

W.D. Richter. Novel: Bram Stoker

Cast

Music

John Williams

Cinematography

Gilbert Taylor

Producer

Universal Pictures, The Mirisch Corporation

Genre

Horror. Fantasy | Vampires

Movie Groups

Dracula | Bram Stoker Adaptations

Synopsis

When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He makes friends with Dr Seward who runs the local asylum and with his daughter Lucy, her friend Mina, and with Jonathan Harker, Lucy's solicitor fiance. But almost immediately, Mina dies from loss of blood, and just possibly this may not be a coincidence.

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Rankings Position

#37 Best Vampires Movies & Series

Awards: 1979: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): Best Horror Film. 5 nominations

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Critics' reviews

"Some interesting creative choices make this more a curio than a great film. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Kim Newman: Empire
"A handsome, moody rendition, more romantic than menacing."

Variety Staff: Variety
"Langella offers the best interpretation of Stoker's villain since Christopher Lee (...) But the decision to create such a sympathetic vampire leaves the film short of suspense"

Time Out
"The film is a triumph of performance, art direction and mood over materials that can lend themselves so easily to self-satire."

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Virtually every big action scene is confusingly staged and clumsily edited. It is particularly sad to report that Olivier is terribly misused."

David Ansen: Newsweek
"From opening wolf howls through ominous, ambiguous concluding images, it sustains an exciting, witty, erotically compelling illusion of supernatural mystery and terror"

Gary Arnold: The Washington Post
"The mood varies so drastically from episode to episode, that the pace becomes pointless, even taxing, after a while."

Janet Maslin: The New York Times

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