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Remember watching him in Broen a while back.
Better than most I'd say. But I'm worried about this new project.
My dream would be Jason Isaacs in a faithful adaptation.
Wonder if he could be a good casting as a Bond villain too, come to think of it.
Could do. Let's see first how he turns out as Drac.
It s a good one, but I like the orignal even better.
The premiere on this movie was intended to occur in late 1973, but the spot was taken by a speech by President Nixon concerning Vice President Agnew s resignation, so it was rescheduled for early 1974.
Coppola used two elements from this tv production: That Dracula and Vlad the Impaler (the historical Dracula) was one and the same, as well as Mina being Dracula s long diseased wife reincarnated.
Due to Coppola copyrighting the title BRAM STOKER S DRACULA in the early 90s, subsequent releases of the Palance version have been retitled DAN CURTIS DRACULA, or simply DRACULA.
I like the 1922 version as well but for me the 1979 film betters it slightly due to the music, the cinematography and its overall strangeness. All these elements contribute to a brilliantly eery atmosphere with Klaus Kinski, Bruno Ganz and Isabelle Adjani all giving suitably mysterious performances.
My top three would also include Hammer’s Dracula (1958) and I’ll add Dracula A.D. 1972 for sheer entertainment value.
Dracula and Vlad being one and the same person, or even Dracula being inspired by Vlad, is maybe the biggest literary misconception of the history of horror.
I don t know. I think that honour goes to Frankenstein as the name of the monster.
Palance was offered to return as Dracula several times over the next decade, but declined. A shame, he was a damn good Dracula.
Which I reckon is one of the reasons why some of those recent attempts to tell "the true story of Dracula" are simply horrendous.
At least the historicity of these characters are at best uncertain. Dracula has the same name as a historical character. Or the surname said true character had. Turns out it's pretty much all Bram Stoker knew about Vlad Tepes. Stoker didn't even know his true name was Vlad!
A cut version was released in Italy in 1975 with the title DRACULA CERCA SANGUE DI VERGINE E...MORE DI SETE!!! (Dracula is searching for virgins blood and...he s dying of thirst!!!)
It's a bit more outlandish in the gore department. Udo Kier, Arno Juerging and Joe Dallesandro are in both films. They wrapped FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN at lunchtime, the three actors got haircuts that hour and reported to the set for BLOOD FOR DRACULA immediately.
I love both films. They're a bit odd and are an acquired taste, really. Very much a different take on those stories, yet to me, still feel classic. Perhaps it's the visual design?
Udo Kier is great and apparently starved during filming to get the right effect for his Dracula.
I think the Dracula film is the better of the two, but the Frankenstein movie is a lot of fun. Very over the top.
Oh yes, it is. It's almost the same film. I have watched both films a few times now and I keep having trouble telling them apart. It's more of the same. :)
Directed by Roy Ward Baker, and featuring John Forbes-Robertson as Dracula and Shen Chan aka Chan Shen as his alter ego Kah, both dubbed by David de Keyser, who also provided the voice of Draco in OHMSS. Julie Ege, who played Scandinavian Girl in OHMSS also has a prominent role as a Scandinavian Baroness.
Lee refused to return for this one, understandably as it must be the dumbest of them all. He played in another Hong Kong martial arts craze film instead that year-TMWTGG.
Pre title sequence set in Transylvania in 1804 and the rest in China in 1904.
In the Far East it was released under the title THE 7 BROTHERS MEET DRACULA and DRACULA AND THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES
This did so poorly that the planned sequel KALI: THE DEVIL BRIDE OF DRACULA, to be shot in India, was cancelled.
Funny how there are two distinctly different cuts of LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES. It was completely re-edited for the U.S. and released as THE SEVEN BROTHER MEET DRACULA. I believe the U.S. version was about 20 minutes shorter and quite incoherent. The VHS edition from 1998 had both cuts. Wish I still had that.
Wasn't it The Seven Brothers and their One Sister meet Dracula ? Anyway, stupid title either way. But still, great posters !
But you see, even if Sir Christopher didn't play Dracula for Hammer, he wasn't really over with the character :
I must say that I never saw the movie, but I've read the novel, which wasn't bad at all. Which is normal, given that it was written by Patrick Cauvin, who at the time used his real name, Claude Klotz. The story in short : in the 17th century, a young woman entered the castle of Dracula. Instead of biting her... Well, let's say that nine months later, she gave birth to Valentin, before dying. Later, in the 20th century, both vampires had to flee Romania, and found refuge in Paris. But Valentin soon discovers that the life of a migrant worker is not fun and games. It could even be insufferable if he didn't fall in love qith a charming french girl. Along his misadventures, he'll discover that love renders him human. And his father ? At the end of the novel, we'll discover that he became an actor, playing the vampire for the silver screen (and one day, dying, burned by the morning sun, because he stayed too long with an aspiring actress who wanted a part in his next movie).
The novel is in fact quite good. I don't know how faithfully the movie adapted it. It was directed by Édouard Molinaro, famous for his comedies, and featured Bernard Ménez as Valentin, and Marie-Hélène Breillat as the girl he falls in love with. The novel itself was published under two different titles : Paris Vampire, and, to capitalize on the movie (901 652 seats at the french box-office) Dracula Père et Fils.
Next, I'll talk about Dracurella, who deserves a mention.
I believe it was promoted as THE SEVEN BROTHERS AND THEIR ONE SISTER MEET DRACULA, but on the screen it read THE 7 BROTHERS MEET DRACULA
DRACULA FATHER AND SON is an oddity. Apparently in the original French dubs, Lee never felt he was actually playing Dracula. However when the film was dubbed for English speaking audiences it was turned into a Dracula film. His costuming is quite different to his Hammer Dracula movies.
And two years prior to that, in 1974, came SON OF DRACULA directed by Freddie Francis, a musical comedy starring Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr. Ihaven t bothered watching it, but Dan Meaden plays Dracula-the father of Nilsson s character Count Downe.
Freddie Jones was in this as well as SON OF DRACULA and THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA.Nadim Sawallha who played Aziz Fekkesh in TSWLM has a part.
I believe Frampton is in it as well as Ringo.
OLD DRACULA I saw on TV several times as a kid and always wished I were watching a real Dracula movie instead. I'd probably at least appreciate it more now, but I do remember it being pretty bad.
Just found it. It actually has an interesting look to it. Ringo looks funny.