Dracula Lives
Friday December 29, 2006 in television | horror
Then I stopped and looked at the Count. There was a mocking smile on the bloated face which seemed to drive me mad. This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless.
Bram Stoker, Dracula.
In 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula was released in the cinema. Francis Ford Coppola’s film claimed to be a faithful adaptation of the 1897 novel and so used the author’s name in the title to advertise this. Give or take some distracting acting styles, ranging from the totally bland (Keanu Reeves) to the completely over the top (Gary Oldman), the film is very close to the original novel. But do we really give a damn?