Bram Stoker's Dracula

"Love never dies."

1992 2h 8m EN

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7.4

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69%

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7.4

IMDB

★7.4TMDB · 5,948🍅69%Rotten Tomatoes●57Metacritic★7.4IMDB · 267,072

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Synopsis

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Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.

“Love never dies.”

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Cast

Gary Oldman
Dracula
Winona Ryder
Mina Murray / Elisabeta
Anthony Hopkins
Professor Abraham Van Helsing
Keanu Reeves
Jonathan Harker
Sadie Frost
Lucy Westenra
Cary Elwes
Lord Arthur Holmwood
Richard E. Grant
Dr. Jack Seward
Billy Campbell
Quincey P. Morris

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: James V. Hart
Languages: Latin, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 5.4× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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34 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 5 languages: Latin, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, English.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, shot by Michael Ballhaus. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Wojciech Kilar. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Anne Goursaud shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

ERA

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Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Love never dies.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Francis Ford Coppola directs. Michael Ballhaus behind the camera. Wojciech Kilar scores. Anne Goursaud cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Latin, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, English.

Trivia

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1Made its money back 5.4× over at the box office.
234 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Dialogue crosses 5 languages: Latin, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, English.
4Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, shot by Michael Ballhaus. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Wojciech Kilar. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Anne Goursaud shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Love never dies.".
9IMDB entry: tt0103874 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 14 themes, including "adultery", "london, england", "transylvania", "vampire".
11Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus
Original score: Wojciech Kilar
Editing: Anne Goursaud
Production design: Thomas E. Sanders
Costume design: Eiko Ishioka
Makeup / hair: Michèle Burke
VFX supervisor: Alison Savitch
Sound: Leslie Shatz
Stunt coordinator: William H. Burton Jr.
Runtime: 128 min · 2h 8m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $40,000,000
Box office: $215,862,692
Return: 540% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Rotten Tomatoes: 69% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 57/100
IMDB rating: 7.4/10 · 267,072 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

Won 3 Oscars. 30 wins & 21 nominations total

Saturn Award for Best Costume
Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Academy Award for Best Costume Design
Saturn Award for Best Director

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What people are saying

J4stringthang2014-02-06
This Seductive, Thrilling, love story has some Bite! Based from the book and is a true masterpiece. Gary Oldman plays Dracula and simply makes this movie. His obsession with Winona Ryder characters is relentless and heart chilling. Don't worry Keanu Reeves doesn't ruin it, he actually did a great job. Anthony Hopkins plays the role of Dr. Van Helsing. We all know his story now thanks to Hugh Jackman. Some brief nudity and a HOT scene with Winona as she runs though the garden in her PJ's. Not only do I gave Bram Stoker's Dracula 5 stars, BUT I rate it in my Top 10 all-time. MUST SEE!
Andres Gomez2014-10-06
★ 8/10
The script is an unevenly good adaptation of the novel. It resolves better Dracula's aims and motivations through the love story. Also, it provides a more understandable glue to join the 4 men chasing Dracula from a XXth century point of view and removes unimportant characters having a more "round" story. However, due to some changes certain parts are now incoherent since they were not properly adapted to the other changes. In addition, other parts are totally impossible to follow due to the amount of details only commented quickly along the movie. Costumes and general artistic work is superb but it drives the movie to some extreme stravaganza that, in the case of the actors' performances make some parts of the movie completely overacted. In any case, I think this is an iconic movie worth watching more than once.
talisencrw2016-03-07
★ 9/10
Although it certainly won't make you easily forget earlier interpretations of the seminal horrific character by Max Schreck, Bela Lugosi, Sir Christopher Lee or Klaus Kinski, Gary Oldman definitely finds a way under your skin. As well, the resoundingly sumptuous cinematography will sweep you off your feet--unless you're dead to begin with... =)