1992 · horror · romance · gothic
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola2h 8m1992
Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.
Our read: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · romance · gothic entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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