Count Dracula Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Awful Made For TV Version Of Dracula

this film might be nice if you have seen it many years ago when it origionally aired on the BBC in the 1970's.

however compared to film versions even before that dat it is abysmal, the editing is laughable and the acting performances are horrible.

There is nothing in this i could seek to recomend to anyone, well actually the performance of Dr Van Helsing is pretty good - particularly when compared to Antony Hopkins bizzare lunatic portrayal in the 1994 version of the film.

In conclusion - DONT RENT, if you feel nostalgic go ahead, but if you want another dracula film you havnt seen yet forget about this one...its just not worth it

A faithful and unnerving version.

This BBC adaptation manages to convey the unnerving quality of the story with genuine eerie sequences in a way most of the Hammer films failed to do in their quest for churning out their products as fast as possible. At times it created a mood that approached the brilliance of Herzog’s ‘Nosferatu the Vampyre’ (1979). Performances were good and the count had both the alluring and repellent qualities needed: it would have been good to see Christopher Lee given a film with some decent lines in it like this. The programme is considered to be very faithful to the original book. In terms of story-telling it is very similar to Francis Ford Coppola’s visually stunning ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ but without the stylised approached and budget – but with much better acting than some of the cringe-worthy performances by Reeves and Hopkins that seriously undermined Coppola’s film. On the downside it features the 1970s customary fashion of filming location shots in 16mm and studio shots on videotape that looked jarring at the time and now looks ghastly. Some of the effects shots are dodgy too. Not the best Dracula but certainly a quality production worth watching. Picture and sound are adequate. There are no extras.