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Calendar Events / Announcements '13 I / Re: Dracula Movies
« on: April 30, 2013, 06:39:22 PM »
Willie Loomis, I have never seen either of the Blacula films. I wonder if I'm confused and Ketty Lester (I think I wrote Wells by mistake in the previous post) actually appeared in one of these. William Marshall was such a great actor and I am surprised in retrospect that he committed to these, but perhaps they're better than I have presumed sight unseen.
I love the vampire segment in "House that dripped blood." It's such a cool pastiche on the conventions of the genre and the pairing of Jon Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt makes it such fun.
In terms of more recent films, there are tons I haven't seen--the Blade films come to mind, and so does a John Carpenter film that was supposed to be gore soaked. I am emphatically not a gorehound so when I hear something is generous in that department, I stay away. One 1990s film that I did see in the genre was the Coppola version of Dracula which relied heavily upon the Dan Curtis adaptation of the Barnabas and Josette narrative onto the Dracula material. I did think that was beautifully filmed, with a great performance by Gary Oldman, but the FX just seemed excessive to me--the relentless showboating of FX made it hard for me to take seriously as a story. Another one I have wanted to see is titled, I think, Shadow of the Vampire, and is set around the filming of Nosferatu, apparently heavily fictionalized. I read a great novel with this topic some years back.
Best, G.
I love the vampire segment in "House that dripped blood." It's such a cool pastiche on the conventions of the genre and the pairing of Jon Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt makes it such fun.
In terms of more recent films, there are tons I haven't seen--the Blade films come to mind, and so does a John Carpenter film that was supposed to be gore soaked. I am emphatically not a gorehound so when I hear something is generous in that department, I stay away. One 1990s film that I did see in the genre was the Coppola version of Dracula which relied heavily upon the Dan Curtis adaptation of the Barnabas and Josette narrative onto the Dracula material. I did think that was beautifully filmed, with a great performance by Gary Oldman, but the FX just seemed excessive to me--the relentless showboating of FX made it hard for me to take seriously as a story. Another one I have wanted to see is titled, I think, Shadow of the Vampire, and is set around the filming of Nosferatu, apparently heavily fictionalized. I read a great novel with this topic some years back.
Best, G.