DVD : Bram Stoker's Dracula (Collector's Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396129160
Format: Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 02, 2007
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 2732
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: November 13, 1992
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Product Description:
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/25/2008 Run time: 127 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com essential video:
With dizzying cinematic tricks and astonishing performances, Francis Coppola's 1992 version of the oft-filmed Dracula story is one of the most exuberant, extravagant films of the 1990s. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder, as the Count and Mina Murray, are quite a pair of star-crossed lovers. She's betrothed to another man; he can't kick the habit of feeding off the living. Anthony Hopkins plays Van Helsing, the vampire slayer, with tongue firmly in cheek. Tom Waits is great fun as Renfield, the hapless slave of Dracula who craves the blood of insects and cats. Sadie Frost is a sexy Lucy Westenra. And poor Keanu Reeves, as Jonathan Harker, has the misfortune to be seduced by Dracula's three half-naked wives. There's a little bit of everything in this version of Dracula: gore, high-speed horseback chases, passion, and longing.
Amazon.com:
Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula is a feverishly inventive movie that often overwhelms its own narrative flow, yet proves irresistible to watch. In the high-definition transfer on this two-disc Collector's Edition, Coppola's baroque, operatic set design, costumes, and cinematography look as lavish as they did on the film's first release. The director's grab-bag of visual effects are still bold and unabashed, if often over-the-top, and the actors still appear caught up in a certain hysterical pitch that feels a little forced but can be a lot of fun to watch. Gary Oldman's imaginative performance as the titular vampire carries the weight of Coppola's vision of Count Dracula as a tragic-romantic hero with Christ-like overtones. Keanu Reeves still looks a little lost in the pivotal role of Jonathan Harker, the London clerk who finds himself a prisoner in a Transylvanian castle while a 400-year-old vampire makes a play for his fiancée back home (Winona Ryder). Anthony Hopkins is fearless as a daft Von Helsing, and Sadie Frost is very good as the doomed Lucy.
The second disc in this set includes several good documentaries, including a featurette on the making of the film, involving past and present interviews with the principal artists involved. (Coppola and screenwriter James V. Hart speak persuasively about their commitment to bringing Stoker’s vision to the screen, rather than another revision.) Another documentary, "In-Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Dracula,'" is a fascinating overview of Coppola’s sometimes-frustrated effort to get the timeless special effects he was seeking. There are also quite a few deleted scenes among the special features, the best of which is an alternative cut to the film’s bloody ending. --Tom Keogh
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I will refrain reviewing the film here (as obviously it's one of my favorites or I wouldn't have purchased it on Blu Ray) but instead concentrate on the transfer and content, which I found satisfactory but not exceptional.
Firstly, the deleted scenes were a great addition to the Blu Ray disc. I only wish there were more! Being the nerd that I am, I had purchased a companion book to the film back in 1992 that had the whole script and now finally I get to see those scenes I had only previously ... Read More
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If you're a vampire legend fan this is a must see. With an all star cast, sets, music, direction and costumes to boot, this is about a close as you're going to get to the real tale of the Prince of Darkness.
Gary Oldman is outstanding as the old and young Vlad Tepes III (Dracula) and Sir Anthony Hopkins is at his usual best as Professor Van Helsing. Keano reeves and Winona Ryder are great as the two lovers stalked by the count...
What makes this DVD set even more fantastic ... Read More
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The Bottom Line:
This version of Dracula is stylishly put-together but marred by poor performances (Reeves and an over-the-top Hopkins) and the lack of a soul beneath its slick interior.
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Good film but it is a shoe in for the prize of worst blu-ray transfer ever.
Total garbage picture quality. If you have the dvd you don't need this. Whoever was in charge of transfering this to blu-ray should never be allowed to do so again.
Colors are off, image detail is non existant and blacks are crushed to the point they have little to do with actually being black.
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I love the novel Bram Stoker's Dracula. I have read it more than any other book in my collection, and in fact have a leather bound gold gilded pages version of the classic.
FFC does a brilliant job with bringing the written word to life. Each paragraph in each chapter is brought to stunning reality by this visual masterpiece of a translation. My favorite aspect of the novel is the voyeuristic feeling the reader gets from reading all of the accounts of the count....Copalla manages to bring the same ... Read More
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