Favorite Dracula Film

[captainsolo]

Horror of Dracula no contest.
Closely followed by Dracula (1931).

[Darkstream]

This thread should have had a poll:

• Nosferatu (1922)
• Dracula (1931)
• Drácula (1931) - Spanish Version
• Horror of Dracula (1958)
• Dracula (1979)
• Nosferatu (1979)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
• other

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by MattJ1991

I don't know how anything can top this honestly.

....just most other DRACULA FILMS......

[Darkstream]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

....just most other DRACULA FILMS......

[The Sovereign]

This is tough because I don’t think any of the Dracula films run away with it. Still, there are a number of really good ones. I’d put Horror of Dracula at the head of my list, followed by Dracula (1979).

[Magic Dusty]

My favorite is Bram Stoker's Dracula, but I have seen very few. A video that compared every Dracula ever made actually said the film stuck to the original novel a lot of times. I haven't read the novel but I'd say the biggest difference was the love story probably.

Originally Posted by BluCollector13

I'll also throw my support out to "Bram Stoker's Dracula". Even its flaws are minuscule when compared to what a visually stimulating experience Coppola makes from start to end, aided by the raw versatility of Gary Oldman's performance, Wojciech Kilar's score and arguably the greatest costumes ever created for a film by the late Eiko Ishioka.

Did you mean it has the greatest costumes any film ever made got, or just any costumes done by Eiko Ishioka?

[Gizz]

[don3663]

Does Werner Herzogs Nosferatu count, if so that. 31 is a close second.

[Damon1281]

Gary Oldman.

[EvaDK]

Originally Posted by don3663

Does Werner Herzogs Nosferatu count, if so that.

Absolutely. It's based on Murnau's film, which was an unofficial adaption of Stoker's novel.

[StarRingLords]

While I like the 1931 and 1992 versions I am still waiting on a more faithful adaptation.

[Winslow Leach]

I just thought of another favorite: BLOOD FOR DRACULA (1974), a.k.a. ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA. Great film starring Udo Kier as the Count.

[Winslow Leach]

Which Dracula Film is Most Faithful to the Book? - YouTube

[TheWildWhelk]

They way Stoker's novel is written explains why it was so difficult for film-makers to do a straight-up adaptation of it, which is why i'm going with Bram Stoker's Dracula and the BBC Count Dracula with Louis Jourdan.

[spider-neil]

It wasn't a movie but I absolutely loved the back and forth between Dracula and Van Helsing in the BBC three part series. Loved episode 1 and 2.

[CreasyBear]

If Bela Lugosi had been in the Spanish film, you'd pretty much have a definitive Dracula.

[Evangelos]

Bram Stoker's Dracula for its unhinged visual creativity.
Coppola was firing on all cylinders with that one,too bad he left Frankenstein.

I tend to enjoy most of the Draculas though,it's my favourite novel

[BluCollector13]

Originally Posted by Magic Dusty

Did you mean it has the greatest costumes any film ever made got, or just any costumes done by Eiko Ishioka?

In a way, both, but in this instance, my comments were saying Ishioka's work in "Dracula" is the all time greatest costumes ever made for film.

* incidentally, another Coppola movie would also be in the running, Milena Canonero's work on Sofia's "Marie Antoinette".

[Chaotic]

1992

[Mikezilla3k]

Originally Posted by CreasyBear

If Dwight Frye had been in the Spanish film, you'd pretty much have a definitive Dracula.

Agreed.