Though this may be attributed to the fact that he manages to get out of his coffin before they reach him.
Adaptational Badass: Dracula is still alive when Jonathan slashes his throat and Quincey stabs him, even throwing both of them across the courtyard.That trio of films may have also indirectly led to Universal Pictures choosing to revive their Mummy franchise in 1999-although the critical and commercial failure of Mary Reilly may have influenced their decision to take it in a Lighter and Softer direction, framing it as an action-packed pulp throwback rather than a "serious" period drama. The film's similarly-titled Spiritual Successor Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (which Francis Ford Coppola produced, but didn't direct) was the first of them, soon followed by Tristar Pictures' 1996 Jekyll and Hyde adaptation Mary Reilly. Grant as Seward, Cary Elwes as Arthur, Billy Campbell as Quincey Morris and Monica Bellucci as one of Dracula's brides.Īmong fans of the horror genre, the film is considered rather notable for helping to spark a brief wave of adult-targeted classic horror revivals in the 1990s, many of which tried to replicate its relative faithfulness to the source material and period drama aesthetics. Other actors in the cast include Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing, Richard E. A clerk named Renfield ( Tom Waits) is gibbering in his asylum cell while his replacement, Jonathan Harker ( Keanu Reeves), travels to Transylvania to complete the sale of various properties around London to a certain Count Dracula who is extremely intrigued when he sees a picture of Harker's bride-to-be, Mina Murray ( Winona Ryder), as she looks remarkably like a certain lost love. Enraged, Vlad renounces God and vows to drink the blood of men.įlash forward to England, 1897. Vlad's priests declare that, as her death was a suicide, she is now damned to Hell. In her despair, she throws herself from the castle's walls to her death.
Prince Vlad III Draculea ( Gary Oldman) successfully defends Christian civilization from the Eastern threat, but the Turks take revenge by sending a false message of his death to his wife, Elisabeta ( Winona Ryder), whom he loves dearly. The film opens in Transylvania (Romania), 1462, after Constantinople was captured by the Turks in 1453. Even though it follows the book much more closely than previous Dracula movies as well as many later ones (among other things, it's the only film adaptation to this day to actually maintain the book version of the titular count's death), one of its most obvious features is a romance plot that's not in the book. The 1992 movie adaptation of the novel directed by Francis Ford Coppola from James V.
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