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Post #415422

Author
TheBoost
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Dracula
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Date created
20-May-2010, 6:08 PM

(new thread to stop hijacking the "Last Movie Seen" thread)

Finished with Jack Palance's Dracula and I think it might be my new favortie. Fairly faithful (a few big deviations) Palance gives a very very menacing yet charasmatic performance without ever being suave. The reincarnated love angle (with Lucy not Mina) didn't feel as forced or as melodramtic at the Coppola picture.  I really, really dug it. Even the production values, which were fairly high for a US TV Movie, stand up well compared to the ghetto budgets the Jess Franco and BBC Dracula's of the same era were produced on.

 Boost's Dracula List: Most Faithful to Least Faithful to the book

  1. Count Dracula 1977 (Louis Jordan)
  2. Count Dracula 1970 (Christopher Lee)
  3. Dracula 1973 (Jack Palance)
  4. Dracula 1931 (Bela Lugosi)
  5. Nosferatu The Vampyre 1979 (Klaus Kinski)
  6. Bram Stoker's Dracula 1993 (Gary Oldman)
  7. Dracula 1979 (Frank Langella)
  8. [Horror of] Dracula 1958 (Christopher Lee)

 

These are the Dracula pictures I am currently working with to produce an epic "All Dracula Compilation/Comparison" Video, something akin to what HelmetCrow did with the six Star Wars films.

At first I was going to do ALL Draculas including John Carradine, The Monster Squad, Van Helsing, etc, but that got out of hand and I just went with the films that were adaptations of the book.

As I edit and tweak the presentation, I need some recomendations of what music to use. I was going with "Swan Lake" from the Lugosi picture, but decided I wanted something neutral, that wasn't connected with any of the actors who played the Count. Any ideas?