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Entries Tagged as 'Bram Stoker'

The Tomb of Dracula (1980, Okazaki Minoru)

September 7th, 2009 · No Comments

I read somewhere the Japanese started producing anime because there was no way to combat live action American imports. With its narration and lame plotting (it somehow isn’t epical–maybe because Tomb of Dracula was produced for television, complete with convenient commercial breaks), it’s an awful way spend ninety minutes. Unfortunately the entire cast isn’t credited, […]

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Tagged: Bram Stoker· Gene Colan· Marv Wolfman· Okazaki Minoru· Toei Inc· Yamazaki Tadaaki· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

Count Dracula (1977, Philip Saville)

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

The biggest problems with Count Dracula are completely unrelated. First, the obvious–the source material. Bram Stoker’s novel is, apparently, unadaptable. To date, no film version has been successful. The problem lies with Stoker’s plotting. After the compelling opening with Dracula in Transylvania, his subsequent disappearance leaves the reader or viewer with a bunch of rubes. […]

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Tagged: Bram Stoker· British Broadcasting Corporation· Gerald Savory· Philip Saville· ★★

Dracula (1931, Tod Browning)

January 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

I never got Dracula. Even as a kid, I never watched it over and over, like I did the other Universal monster movies. When I went back and saw it in the late 1990s–after Ed Wood–Bela Lugosi’s performance horrified me. He makes funny faces and does Charles Atlas exercises for scary body language and woodenly […]

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Tagged: Bela Lugosi· Bram Stoker· Dwight Frye· Edward Van Sloan· Garrett Fort· Hamilton Dean· John L. Balderston· Tod Browning· Universal Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

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