While horror continues to boom in 2023, two releases based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Renfield and The Last Voyage of the Demeter – have seriously underwhelmed at the box office.
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At this point, horror fans have plenty of big screen adaptations of Bram Stoker’s classic novel, Dracula. Both Universal Studios and Hammer Films gave us beloved versions of the character. Filmmakers from Andy Warhol to Francis Ford Coppola to Werner Herzog have put their own twist on the iconic character. Prequels, sequels, comedies, animated versions […]
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a timeless classic of Gothic horror. It has inspired countless adaptations and re-imaginings on the big and small screen alike. To date, it’s estimated that the character Count Dracula has appeared somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 different movies. Arguably, Dracula remains the archetypal horror villain as he continues to inspire […]
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At the time of its release, Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a risky venture. Coppola was coming off the disappointment of The Godfather Part III, which capped off his mafia trilogy on a somewhat sour note. And Dracula hadn’t been on the big screen since the moderately success 1979 adaptation starring […]
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Fun little piece of trivia – Dracula author Bram Stoker was Irish. It’s a fun tidbit that Irish writer and director Chris Baugh puts to good use in his horror-comedy, Boys From County Hell. But if Baugh uses Stoker’s Irish legacy, it’s only as a springboard to tell his own story. What Boys From County […]
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