Bram Stoker's Dracula | 
| Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  558 reviews
Sales Rank: 7469
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 128 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: COLD51419D
ISBN: 0800177177
UPC: 043396514195
EAN: 9780800177171
ASIN: 0800177177
Theatrical Release Date: November 13, 1992
Release Date: October 7, 1997
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Product Description
The vampire comes to england to seduce a visitors fiance and inflict havoc in the foreign land. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/20/2005 Starring: Gary Oldman Anthony Hopkins Run time: 127 minutes Rating: R Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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With dizzying cinematic tricks and astonishing performances, Francis Coppola's 1992 version of the oft-filmed Dracula story is one of the most exuberant, extravagant films of the 1990s. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder, as the Count and Mina Murray, are quite a pair of star-crossed lovers. She's betrothed to another man; he can't kick the habit of feeding off the living. Anthony Hopkins plays Van Helsing, the vampire slayer, with tongue firmly in cheek. Tom Waits is great fun as Renfield, the hapless slave of Dracula who craves the blood of insects and cats. Sadie Frost is a sexy Lucy Westenra. And poor Keanu Reeves, as Jonathan Harker, has the misfortune to be seduced by Dracula's three half-naked wives. There's a little bit of everything in this version of Dracula: gore, high-speed horseback chases, passion, and longing.
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Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula is a feverishly inventive movie that often overwhelms its own narrative flow, yet proves irresistible to watch. Coppola's baroque, operatic set design, costumes, and cinematography look as lavish as they did on the film's first release. The director's grab-bag of visual effects are still bold and unabashed, if often over-the-top, and the actors still appear caught up in a certain hysterical pitch that feels a little forced but can be a lot of fun to watch. Gary Oldman's imaginative performance as the titular vampire carries the weight of Coppola's vision of Count Dracula as a tragic-romantic hero with Christ-like overtones. Keanu Reeves still looks a little lost in the pivotal role of Jonathan Harker, the London clerk who finds himself a prisoner in a Transylvanian castle while a 400-year-old vampire makes a play for his fiancee back home (Winona Ryder). Anthony Hopkins is fearless as a daft Von Helsing, and Sadie Frost is very good as the doomed Lucy. --Tom Keogh
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 awful June 11, 2009
Cesar M. Cardenas Torres
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The image quality is very poor. I have seen a much better image quality in regular dvds that this bluray. definitely not woth the money.
I mena, the whole idea of buying a bluray is to get the best in image quality, the full HD. Stay away from this item.
 A Halluncinating Dream From Start to Finish May 28, 2009
Grant Alexander
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of Bram Stoker's horror masterpiece is a masterpiece in its own right, and as a film, there is nothing else like it. From start to finish, one feels as if one is watching an erotic, albeit blood-soaked, dream resulting from a little too much wine. One's head spins as the film's dazzling journey and storm sequences swim across the screen, filling one's eyes with too many Gothic images to count. At the end of my first viewing of this film, I didn't know how to process it - the film is such a sensory experience that upon turning off my television, I felt as if I had awoken from a pleasurable yet horrific nightmare. In some ways, the film has the same effect as that of an actual dream - you remember what it is about, but at the same time, like a dream, it presents so many different and conflicting emotions and settings that you cannot really remember the dream clearly at all, but you none the less know that you had it and cannot shake the way that it made you feel. This Dracula has exactly such an effect on one's mind, making it absolutely necessary to watch it multiple times in order to fully appreciate it as not only an artistic triumph but also as an excellent example of sheer film making craft.
Coppola and his designers wisely decided to make everything in the film larger than life and slightly off-kilter, again reinforcing the notion of being asleep, or entranced just like one of Dracula's victims. Even the Victorian costumes and sets are devoid of any gritty realism - one knows where and when the film is set, but there is no way that Victorian England looked so much like an illustration from a novel, but, this is of course to the film's great credit. Also surprising are the film's rather old-fashioned special effects, especially Dracula's sneaky shadow, a homage to the silent Nosferatu film from the '20s. There appears to be almost no use of the computer wizardry that has taken over the film industry in the past decade here, which makes the startling effects that much more real and frightening.
For a Gothic fairytale, however, the main performances are suprisingly genuine, infused with real human pathos and longing. This is especially true of Gary Oldman's no-holes barred performance as the Count. From the moment he appears onscreen in a ridiculous wig and a flowing red robe, Oldman gives what could very easily be a caricature real depth, choosing to underplay many of the character's grander speeches to make them seem real stream-of-consciousness confessions rather than speeches out of a Victorian novel. This is greatly to Oldman's credit as an actor as his delivery perfectly counterbalances his larger-than-life costumes and makeup. This Dracula may not have a physical heart that beats, but he undoubtedly has a spiritual heart and soul. As Mina, the fair lady whom Dracula believes is the reincarnation of his long-dead wife, Winona Ryder actually gives what is a very convincing performance, filled with both desperate longing for something she shouldn't even admit she wants (namely sex) and a desire to remain faithful to the mores of her society (a character trait Ryder would play to marvelous effect the next year in Scorsese's The Age of Innocence for which she was nominated for an Oscar). Many reviewers say that Mina is indeed the reincarnation of Dracula's beloved wife, but to be honest I think differently. Mina's mind is being controlled by the Count, and for most of the film she is very much attempting to keep her sanity - as a victim with limited power, I think Mina would be willing to tell the Count as many lover's vows and declarations as he would want to hear, but, I digress. Anthony Hopkins is wonderful as the half-crazed vampire slayer and doctor Van Helsing, artfully combining camp and realism to give what is a very finely crafted performance. And, as Lucy Westenra, Sadie Frost gives us a Victorian maid plagued by what is essentially erotomania, her ravishment and fatal bite from Dracula seemingly stemming from her desire to be sexually liberated - her later convulsions and cries of pain during her subsequent "illness" closely mimicking those that accompany orgasm. The smaller supporting players do fine, except for Keanu Reeves who is terrible as always, but his blandness works for the most part here: Jonathan doesn't understand what is happening to his dear wife Mina, so, Keanu' dazed look actually comes in handy, even though his line deliveries have about as much passion in them as a Hallmark card.
Coppola's film is not a film for everyone, especially for those who shy away from blood and bare breasts, but, the film is still a triumph of film making and is a must for fans of the horror genre, devotees of Bram Stoker's original novel, or film fanatics in general.
 Vampire are pretty cool! May 19, 2009
E. Tiffa Alton-herrmann (Houston, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As far as a story line goes Dracula hits the spot. There is a lot of good blood and gore but the special effects are kinda cheesy. If you're looking for a good 'B' movie then pick this classic up.
Beautiful May 18, 2009
Robyn L. Brown (Upstate New York)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of my very favorite movies. I have watched it so many times. They could not have chosen anyone better to play the role of Dracula in this movie than Gary Oldman. His intensity and passion in the part never fails to captivate; how he can make this character at once tragic, evil, vulnerable, bitter, tender, frightening, revolting and beautiful. The style of moviemaking, the sounds, the costumes and sets make this film fascinating, lush, and unique. It's not a perfect movie by any means (the rest of the casting is not so good in a couple of cases), but it's still a treasure. I'm simply grateful this film exists.
I have the first DVD release of this, and just got this newly remastered one, so I was able to compare them side by side. The improvement in picture quality on this edition is obvious. Finer resolution, truer colors, deeper shadows. I'm not much into DVD extras, but seeing some of the deleted scenes on the bonus disk was fun. I only wish they would have included the video for "Love Song for a Vampire". But as they say, you can't have it all.
Stoker's Bloodlust Tale! May 10, 2009
James "Scotman" April (Bakersfield, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bram Stoker' Dracula
I recall when this first came out, it was billed as "a love story."
Well, I don't know about that.
I loved the scripted story based on Stoker's novel, Dracula, with Bela Lugosi. The closest I've seen up to that point for a creepy vampire tale was with Jack Palance and Christopher Lee. [And Leslie Neilsen in Dracula: Dead & Loving It, but I digress....].
This film gives rise to a night creature who renounces God when he feels God has taken his wife despite courage in battle. His pasty white skin, Hungarian-style accent, and the wide shadows that seem to pervade the friendliest of places creates a mood, a desire for blood and death.
Winona Ryder in an early role is cute and hypnotic as Mina Harker. A pre-Matrix Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker (who is kept weak with loss of blood by the three sexy vamps, yummy), and a pasty-white Gary Oldman as the Transylvanian aristocrat (aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Count Dracula).
Anthony Hopkins plays a German scientist with an interest in the occult who reprimands and demands throughout this film, a bit of an over-acting style I didn't like all that much.
The moody music, the photography and special effects invite a chilling mood.
Recommended, especially on a cold, lonely night under a full moon (and under your covers)!
Prefer:
Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
Draculas: 4 Film Favorites - Horror of Dracula / Dracula Has Risen from the Grave / Taste the Blood of Dracula / Dracula A.D. 1972 (2DVD)
Comedy versions:
Dracula - Dead and Loving It
Love at First Bite
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