[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.