Favorite version of "Dracula"

[ktanner3]

Next to Sherlock Holmes, Dracula is the most played character in the movies with over 160 films. Of all the film adaptions of him, which is your favorite? For sake of brevity I am only including in this poll the versions of Bram Stokers novel, so movies like VAn Helsing aren't included.(thou I thought the actor who did dracula was pretty good)

My favorite version is still Bram Stokers Dracula 1992, by Francis Ford Coppola. I love how they intertwined Prince Vlad in the back story and Gary Oldman gave what I thought was an Academy Award winning performance.The only thing I didn't like in the movie was the casting of Keanu Reeves. His english accent just couldn't seem to hide his dudeness.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I like the 1992 one. Oldman just owned all.

 

[ktanner3]

I like the 1992 one. Oldman just owned all.

I thought so too. I wanted to get it on Blue Ray,but the reviews for it aren't very good. Guess I'll have wait to awhile longer for a second release.

 

[IJD GAF]

Where is Doctor Acula as played by Zach Braff?

 

[Gil T.Azell]

I'll ad
1979's Dracula Sucks (XXX) it was a funny porn version totally campy.

 

[Level 2 Diagnostic]

How could you not include Deafula?

 

[M'Sharak]

Of those I've seen, the 1931 Lugosi is still the favorite. Stoker's 1897 novel still tops the film adaptations.

 

[Cicero]

I've seen only the 1992 version, which turned me off of horror movies entirely (and all vampire films since except Underworld).

(That's not to say the movie was bad. I was 8 and the movie was really not to my preferences.)

 

[Vanyel]

What? No Blackula?!?

I like Love at First Bite best, but of your list I'll take Bram Stoker's Dracula.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Hm, a playoff between the 58 version, the 77 Louis Jourdan TV version, and the 92 Gary Oldman one.

 

[Kemaiku]

I have loads of them on DVD, even recently got myself the 1992 version Deluxe Edition while it was on offer. Its a tough choice between 1931, 1958 and 1992.

Whereas the 1931 and 1958 versions (I have all the Hammer Horror Dracula series now) are definitely favourites, I still prefer the 1992 Gary Oldman performance, despite Keanu's wooden acting and horrible English accent.

 

[Kegek]

Easily the first Nosferatu; with an honorable mention towards the second Nosferatu.

 

[Captain Dago]

The Coppola movie never did anything for me. My fave is still 1973's version with Jack Palance as the Count. The original Nosferatu comes in second.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Dracula 1931.

Bela Lugosi IS Dracula.

 

[Neroon]

Dracula 1931.

Bela Lugosi IS Dracula.

Bingo. Next question?


But in all seriousness, there are merits in several other versions. Frank Langella's turn in 1979 had an undeniable sexiness not seen in most others. Coppola's version ... although maybe a bit too graphic, has great imagery and Monica Belluci as well as Sadie Frost.

As far as atmosphere... it's a very tough choice between the first "Dracula" and the first "Nosferatu". Genuinely creepy and extremely effective, both of them!

 

[Goliath]

My favourite version is actually the 1931 film with the 1999 soundtrack by Philip Glass.

After more than seventy years, Browning's Dracula is definitely showing its age--the bat is particularly cringeworthy, and it could benefit from the inclusion of new digital effects along with Glass' new music. But Lugosi is still the definitive Count, and some of the movie's lines and scenes have still not lost their macabre power.

I thought Coppola's 1992 film was visually impressive, and featured some great performances, but was undermined by having been "re-imagined" for a modern audience. All that "love never dies" rubbish had clearly been tacked on to appeal to teenage Goth girls: in fact, I thought the movie had some nerve advertising itself as "Bram Stoker's Dracula."

 

[Servo]

As much as I love Lugosi in the '31 version, my vote has to be for Coppola's '92 version.

 

[Neroon]

My favourite version is actually the 1931 film with the 1999 soundtrack by Philip Glass.

Is this something you've melded on your own, or is it available somewhere? It sounds very intriguing.

 

[Kemaiku]

^There are versions of both Nosferatu and Dracula 1931 with new scores recorded for them, I haven't been able to get my hands on any unfortunately.

 

[ktanner3]

My favourite version is actually the 1931 film with the 1999 soundtrack by Philip Glass.

Is this something you've melded on your own, or is it available somewhere? It sounds very intriguing.

It was on the Dracula Legacy Collection that came out back when Van Helsing was in theaters. I wasn't too impressed with it myself because the score seemed to distract from the movie. It never seemed to stop and played continueously at the same volume as other actors voices.