[Movies] What is the best Dracula movie?

[Morell]

There is like ton of them and they vary in quality a lot. What is your favorite one?

My personal favorite is BW movie Son of Dracula. (aired 1943) It has classic Dracula style of hunting for blood, but main plot with the girl that invites him in seeking immortality and plotting just as much as the Count was genius idea.

 

[Yazata]

I saw a fragment of the (new?) Luc Besson one. Cool sets and costumes.

 

[TheLastFlame]

My personal favorite is Dracula Untold it is very different from the traditional Dracula movies, but I love the plot of it and enjoy how in it he survives unlike other films. I like the new French Dracula as a whole even though it has its obvious flaws and holes in the story it is still a beautiful film with great acting in my opinion.

 

[emptymylove]

The Nosferatu from Werner Herzog with Adjani and Klaus Kinski.

 

[saharanamun]

Drácula - Bram Stoker (1992)

 

[Morell]

The Nosferatu from Werner Herzog with Adjani and Klaus Kinski.

Awww, that's a great one! Little strange that Orlox was Dracula in this one, as Nosferatu turned into quite different spinoff, but I love this colored version of Nosferatu.

 

[Aldebaran]

Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - It is creepy. I dont think it ever made mainstream success because it is so creepy.

 

[the_snake_charmer]

There is like ton of them and they vary in quality a lot. What is your favorite one?

My personal favorite is BW movie Son of Dracula. (aired 1943) It has classic Dracula style of hunting for blood, but main plot with the girl that invites him in seeking immortality and plotting just as much as the Count was genius idea.

I like Van Helsing the movie

 

[Amadeus]

I like those old classics like the 1931 Dracula with Lugosi. Old school style. Is it the best, don't know about that but the old style is nice. The way they made movies back in the day. Definitely one old legendary masterpiece. Watching that is like going back in time.

 

[Morell]

I like those old classics like the 1931 Dracula with Lugosi. Old school style. Is it the best, don't know about that but the old style is nice. The way they made movies back in the day. Definitely one old legendary masterpiece. Watching that is like going back in time.

Me too. There was something neat about old school BW movies, though I didn't like Frankenstein movies where people were so overreacting that it would make me move out really fast. I still like the bat models they used in Dracula movies, it still looks quite good.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I have a DVD of the original 1920's Nosferatu - and discovered that it's called "Nosferatu" and "Count Orlok" because Dracula was still in copyright
Bram Stoker's widow tried to have every print of the film destroyed - and she nearly succeeded!

 

[Morell]

I have a DVD of the original 1920's Nosferatu - and discovered that it's called "Nosferatu" and "Count Orlok" because Dracula was still in copyright
Bram Stoker's widow tried to have every print of the film destroyed - and she nearly succeeded!

Yeah, and after next movie, the first Dracula movie, the book fell into public domain in USA. So it backfired hard. Lol.

I like the original Nosferatu movie, though when I watched it, it was hard to not be bored, as newer movies are just way more... stimulating. But admiring the handy-work that was done on the movie was enjoyable. I've noticed on the video platform, that there are multiple versions of the music that were made for the movie... as well as multiple "subtitle" screens. Would be reals hame to loose that movie, honestly.

But the Dracula movie of 1931 had awesome Reinfried.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

But admiring the handy-work that was done on the movie was enjoyable. I've noticed on the video platform, that there are multiple versions of the music that were made for the movie... as well as multiple "subtitle" screens. Would be real shame to lose that movie, honestly.

I find it interesting because how films are made was still being decided. In the book, it says something like "the coach travelled at unnatural speed" and in the film, the director has sped the film up, which we (after the Keystone Cops and such) now consider to be comedic. If you want a thing to be menacing on film, you slow it down, or have it happen instantly as a jump scare.

 

[moonbow]

The Nosferatu from Werner Herzog with Adjani and Klaus Kinski.

This. I found it very special for it's deep magical or spiritual feeling, almost like a guidance or teaching. Loved the atmosphere. No unnecessary sex and violence. I liked Bruno Ganz as the hero and I'm thankful it was him, altought he is often overlooked while Kinski and Adjhani are always mentioned.
I don't know if spoilers are allowed here but let me just say this, in a strange way I feel it can be considered a heroes journey. The journey of a seeker to find what he naturally longs for while everyone else is afraid, flat out denies it or is simply incapable to perceive it...
"The Gypsys have been saying that no such castle exists, except maybe in the imagination of man. It's just a ruin, they say, a ghost castle... A traveler who enters into that land of phantoms is lost...and can never return."

"Coachman could you take me to the Borgo Pass? I pay you well."
-"There is no road to the Borgo Pass."
"But it's right there!"
...

"Well, then I'll have to walk!"

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"Last night, after a tiresome journey, I finally reached my destination, the castle of Count Dracula. I had a bad dream. But I hope it will pass. This castle is so strange, at times I wonder if it isn't part of the dream. Everything about it looks so unreal..."

It would be appropriate to talk about a bit more aspects of the movie, especially the ending, but I don't want to spoiler it in case there is still someone who hasn't seen it...

 

[Morell]

"Can't you see? I have no horses."
Yeah, I liked that dialog too.

I'll have to honorably mention Van Hellsing movie here. It made pretty unique Dracula and overall story. Quite enjoyable movie.

 

[querent k]

Obviously Herzog's Nosferatu is an amazing movie, but Dracula looking like a rodent is just silly. The best Dracula look was by Christopher Lee whether or not those Hammer films were good...

 

[moonbow]

Obviously Herzog's Nosferatu is an amazing movie, but Dracula looking like a rodent is just silly. The best Dracula look was by Christopher Lee whether or not those Hammer films were good...

There's rumor that the Producer of the original Nosferatu, Albin Grau, had ties to the german saturnian order and created his vampire based on his wisdom from the order what he thought a real vampire would look like.
I think it's not that silly because it would represent the essence of a normal (unenlightened) vampire quite well. In Herzogs movie it fits nicely because he is a perfect counterpart to the beautiful and "holy" Lucy.

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Also best look not Bela Lugosi...tsk tsk stk
But yeah I think Nosferatu is supposed to look that way for the purpose of the movie.

 

[querent k]

There's rumor that the Producer of the original Nosferatu, Albin Grau, had ties to the german saturnian order and created his vampire based on his wisdom from the order what he thought a real vampire would look like.
I think it's not that silly because it would represent the essence of a normal (unenlightened) vampire quite well. In Herzogs movie it fits nicely because he is a perfect counterpart to the beautiful and "holy" Lucy.

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Also best look not Bela Lugosi...tsk tsk stk
But yeah I think Nosferatu is supposed to look that way for the purpose of the movie.

Yes, Albin Grau was a member of Fraternitas Saturnis, and the look of Orlok in Murnau's silent fim expressionism works. But in 1979 and with speech it doesn't work so well, I think, but the link to the blue rats in the streets is great. Lugosi well, he acted as Dracula, Lee looked like Dracula...