Category Archives: Dracula

Dr. Stanley and Dr. Gillota present in LAE Faculty Forum Dr Continue reading →

AMCs new adaptation of Anne Rices Interview with the Vampire has been getting terrific reviews. Its a wonderful take on the popular novel, previously adapted as the 1994 film of the same name, and its streaming on AMC Plus. If youre one of its legions of new fans, you may be planning your next obsession. Continue reading →

Fresh from directing the latest series ofGangs of London, horror aficionado and friend of Empire, Corin Hardy (The Nun,The Hallow), is hosting a Halloween horror weekend at The Picture House Cinema in Uckfield. Dubbing it the Horrorthon,hes lined up a terrifying mix of classic horrors, many of which are celebrating landmarkanniversaries and theres also an all-ages animated spook-fest featuring a Tim Burton double bill, so smaller family members dont feel left out. Halloween is very important to me, Hardy says Continue reading →

Francis Ford Coppolas vampire tale is now revived in cinemas for its 30th anniversary, with Gary Oldman the fierce and anguished count who hundreds of years ago renounced God and embraced an eternity of parasitic horror in his rage at the unjust death of his countess (played by Winona Ryder). Dressed like the Pierrot from hell in his vast Transylvanian castle, Dracula then buys property in Victorian London, and appears there in the style of a sinister young dandy, on the scent of a woman who looks exactly like his late wife: the winsome Mina (Ryder again), fiancee to the equally demure young lawyer who journeyed to Romania to draw up Draculas contracts: Jonathan, played by Keanu Reeves. This Dracula isnt from Coppolas great 70s/80s period, but it has a melodramatic and operatic energy and draws on the look and feel of Hollywoods pre-Code salaciousness and the silent movie madness of Nosferatu though the expressionist shadows are blood-red, not black. Continue reading →

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings Alexandra Cassavetes Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore Johnny Depp This years 125th anniversary of Bram Stokers Dracula signals many things to many audiences. Along with the publics consciousness and willingness to succumb literally and figuratively to blood lust, and all things remotely Gothic (see this space soon for my David J from Bauhaus interview about this very thing), the need to feed, beyond the Halloween holiday is tied to sexuality, homoeroticism and medical issues such as that of tuberculosis in the 19th Century leading to post-mortem identifications of ordinary citizens as vampires. Continue reading →

Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldman in Bram Stokers Dracula. ( 1992 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.) Lots of people have wanted to put the story of Bram Stoker's Dracula(back in UK cinemas in 4K now for its 30th anniversary) on the big screen, but at the beginning of the 1990s, James V Harts screenplay was languishing in development torpor when Winona Ryder read it and decided it had to be made. Continue reading →

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A GUEST on Antiques Roadshow was left dumbfounded after learning how much their third edition Bram Stoker book could be worth at auction. Book specialist Matthew Haley was presented with a copy of The Mystery of the Sea on a recent episodefilmed in Scotland. Continue reading →

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If you are anything like me, you are always looking for an excuse to head to the theater. From the big screen, to the semi-comfortable seating, and even the sense of community you get when the crowd is fully engrossed in what they know is something special, despite all their recent hardships, movie theaters still hold a particular magic that just cant be recreated at home Continue reading →