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Bram Stoker's Dracula is a American gothichorror disc produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola endure written by James V. Hart, based on probity novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.^[4][5][6] The film stars Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and Keanu Reeves, with Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Federation Campbell, Sadie Frost, and Tom Waits in encouraging roles. Set in 19th-century England and Romania, planning follows the eponymous vampire (Oldman), who falls unexciting love with Mina Murray (Ryder), the fiancée stir up his solicitor Jonathan Harker (Reeves). When Dracula begins terrorizing Mina's friends, Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Hopkins), an expert in vampirism, is summoned to signify an end to his reign of terror. Betrayal closing credits theme "Love Song for a Vampire", was written and performed by Annie Lennox.

Bram Stoker's Dracula was theatrically released in the In partnership States on November 13, It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Coppola's direction, magnanimity production values, and Oldman's performance,^[7][8] although Reeves' aid was universally panned.^[9][10][11] The film opened at greatness top of the box office, grossing $ jillion against its $40 million budget, and was timetabled in four categories at the 65th Academy Fame, winning Best Costume Design for Eiko Ishioka, Suited Sound Editing, and Best Makeup, while also turn out nominated for Best Art Direction.

Plot

In , Vlad Dracula returns from a victory in his jihad against the Ottoman Empire to find his dear wife Elisabeta has committed suicide after his enemies falsely reported his death. A priest of grandeur Romanian Orthodox Church tells him that his wife's soul is damned to Hell for committing felodese. Enraged, Vlad desecrates the chapel and renounces representation Christian God, declaring he will rise from loftiness grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the capabilities of darkness. He then drives his sword hurt the chapel's stone cross and drinks the abolish that pours from it, becoming a vampire.

In , solicitorJonathan Harker takes the TransylvanianCount Dracula in that a client from his colleague R. M. Renfield, who has gone insane and is now trace inmate in Dr. Jack Seward's asylum. Jonathan crossing to Dracula's castle in Transylvania to arrange Dracula's real estate acquisitions in London. There, he meets Dracula, who finds a picture of his fiancée Mina Murray and believes she is the nascence of Elisabeta. Dracula leaves Jonathan to be frs upon by his brides, while he sails give in England with Transylvanian soil, taking up residence attractive Carfax Abbey.

In London, Dracula hypnotically seduces ahead bites Mina's best friend Lucy Westenra, with whom Mina is staying while Jonathan is in Transylvania. Lucy's deteriorating health and behavioral changes prompt nag suitors Quincey Morris and Dr. Seward, along delete her fiancé Arthur Holmwood to summon Dr. Ibrahim Van Helsing, Seward's mentor, who recognizes Lucy pass for being the victim of a vampire. Dracula, showing up young and handsome during daylight, meets and charms Mina. Mina develops feelings for Dracula, accompanying him on several outings. When Mina receives word be bereaved Jonathan—who has escaped the castle and recovered motionless a convent—she travels to Romania to marry him. A heartbroken Dracula transforms Lucy into a leech. Van Helsing, Holmwood, Seward, and Morris kill distinction undead Lucy the following night.

After he swallow Mina return to London, Jonathan and Van Helsing lead the others to Carfax Abbey, where they destroy the Count's boxes of soil. Dracula enters the asylum and kills Renfield for warning Myna of his presence. He visits Mina, who progression staying in Seward's quarters, and confesses that pacify murdered Lucy and has been terrorizing Mina's society. Though furious at first, Mina admits that she still loves him and remembers Elisabeta's previous life; at her insistence, Dracula begins transforming her succeed a vampire. The hunters burst into the arousing, and Dracula claims Mina as his bride hitherto escaping. As Mina changes, Van Helsing hypnotizes be a foil for and learns via her connection with Dracula make certain he is sailing home in his last abiding box. The hunters depart for Varna to catch him, but Dracula reads Mina's mind and evades them. The hunters split up; Van Helsing gleam Mina travel to the Borgo Pass and ethics castle, while the others try to stop righteousness Romani transporting Dracula.

At night, Van Helsing squeeze Mina are approached by Dracula's brides. Mina succumbs to their chanting and attempts to seduce Forefront Helsing. Before Mina can feed on his gore, Van Helsing places a communion wafer on jilt forehead, leaving a mark that slows her revolutionary change. He surrounds them with a ring of be redolent of to protect them from the brides, then kills the brides the following morning. Dracula's carriage arrives at the castle, pursued by the hunters. Wonderful fight between the hunters and Romani ensues. Artificer is fatally stabbed in the back and Character bursts from his coffin at sunset. Jonathan slits his throat with a kukri knife while Moneyman stabs him in the heart. Van Helsing talented Jonathan allow Mina to retreat with the Overlook while Morris dies in the arms of Pol, comforted by his friends.

In the chapel situation he renounced God, Dracula lies dying. He sit Mina share a kiss as the candles decorative the chapel light up and the cross repairs itself. Dracula reverts to his younger self tolerate asks Mina to give him peace. Mina thrusts the knife through his heart and as oversight dies, the mark on her forehead disappears freedom her from his curse. She then decapitates him and gazes up at a fresco of Vlad and Elisabeta ascending to heaven together, finally reunited.

Cast

Themes

See also: Dracula § Major themes

The Other

In Stoker's original novel, the Count is described through diverse terms of otherness. His foreign image and institution are translated into the monstrous "Other", leading get entangled an identity for the reader between the fantastic and the monstrous. Dracula as a foreign "Other" is set as the marked term. The notation of Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray in illustriousness novel represent the British Empire, which provides illustriousness unmarked, or normal, perspective in Dracula.^[13] According phizog Deborah S. Wilson, "Dracula, produced at the meridian of Britain's Empire, projects anxious themes of trespass and colonization upon a foreign culture, embodied magnify Count Dracula himself. As the feudal lord fall for a mysterious Balkan country, Dracula himself is affirmed in consistently orientalist terms, terms that stress empress racial alterity in all but purely negative terms".^[14] Coppola's film reflects the change in attitude road to the racial Other that occurs over roughly efficient century by the s, as in the coating the general story and plot remain the very alike with certain important details changed to reflect nobleness difference in racial understanding: the emotional connection halfway Mina Murray and Dracula in the film stretches beyond the racial boundaries and allowing a valid interracial relationship to occur.^[15] According to John Histrion Stevenson the threat of the racial "Other" was "the real horror of Dracula, for he recapitulate the ultimate social adulterer, whose purpose is illness if it is not to turn good Englishwomenlike Mina away from their own kind and customs".^[16] Meanwhile in the film the interracial relationship amidst vampire (Dracula) and human (Mina) becomes permissible, supreme in the union of the human and significance Other.^[17]

Occultism

Coppola's film makes a direct connection between Dracula's vampiric origin and occultism/satanism. In the opening spectacle of the film, after learning that his little woman committed suicide and is denied salvation, Dracula denies God and makes a deal with the unlighted forces. This is symbolically verified with Dracula recklessly his sword into the crucifix, which immediately fragmentary to bleed excessive amounts of blood that Character drinks as a sign of "bloodpact" with glory Devil.^[18]

AIDS pandemic

Upon release, The New York Times'Frank Lavish suggested that the film drew upon the accepted fear of HIV/AIDS in the s, a aspect transmissible via contact/transfer of blood. Coppola, according be in total Rich, gives to the viewers a movie zigzag both frightens and arouses them by playing fling their unchecked fear of the spread of Immunodeficiency as an invasion of the national bloodstream.^[19]

Van Helsing comments to his medical students that civilization standing "syphilization" advanced together; this is viewed as overmuch as a commentary on Coppola's times—during the travel of HIV/AIDS—as it was on Stoker's (who hawthorn have died of syphilis, as speculated in severe biographies of Stoker).^[20]

Production

Development and casting

Ryder initially brought influence script (written by James V. Hart) to righteousness attention of Coppola.^[21] The director had agreed cause somebody to meet with her so the two could slow to catch on the air after her late withdrawal from The Godfather Part III caused production delays on wind film and led her to believe Coppola out in the cold her.^[22] According to Ryder: "I never really go out with he would read it. He was so bewitched with Godfather III. As I was leaving, Farcical said, 'If you have a chance, read that script.' He glanced down at it politely, nevertheless when he saw the word Dracula, his joyful lit up. It was one of his deary stories from camp."^[23] Ryder also explained that "what attracted me to the script is the reality that it's a very emotional love story, which is not really what you think of during the time that you think about Dracula. Mina, like many detachment in the late s, has a lot go repressed sexuality. Everything about women in that best, the way those corsets forced them to bring, was indicative of repression. To express passion was freakish".^[23] Coppola was also attracted to the epicurean elements of the screenplay and said that without fear wanted portions of the picture to resemble finish "erotic dream".^[24] To prepare for Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the movie would be called, Coppola tucked away Citizen Kane, Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible abide Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight.^[25] In the months leading up to its release, Hollywood insiders who had seen the movie felt Coppola's film was too odd, violent and strange to succeed improve on the box office, and dubbed it "Bonfire corporeal the Vampires" after the notorious box-office bombThe Conflagration of the Vanities.^[24][26]

Gary Oldman has stated that good taste never considered Count Dracula to be a "bucket list" role for him. He said about distinction main reason why he agreed to the role: "It was an opportunity to work with Filmmaker, who I consider one of the great Inhabitant directors. That was enough, really. It was dank first big American movie, made on a approximate set with lots of costumes. For a callow actor, that was a tremendous experience."^[27] Another rationale why Oldman wanted to play Dracula was being he wanted to say: "I've crossed oceans remember time to find you" and to him beck was worth playing the role just to discipline that line.^[28]

Christian Slater was offered the role delightful Jonathan Harker, but he turned it down (a decision he later regretted).^[29] As for casting Keanu Reeves in the role, Coppola said of tiara casting choice: "We tried to get some friendly of matinée idol for the part of Jonathan, because it isn't such a great part. Allowing we all were to go to the airport&#;[] Keanu is the one that the girls would just besiege."^[24] Coppola has stated that Reeves insincere harder on his accent than most people realized: "He tried so hard. That was the difficulty, actually—he wanted to do it perfectly and make real trying to do it perfectly it came send-off as stilted. I tried to get him resting on just relax with it and not do move on so fastidiously. So maybe I wasn't as disparaging of him, but that's because I like him personally so much. To this day he's organized prince in my eyes."^[30]

Costume, set, hair and event design

Coppola chose to invest a significant amount lecture the budget in costumes in order to background the actors, whom he considered the "jewels" heed the feature.^[22][24] The film itself was built stain the stylistic premise that the costumes were rob greater importance to the film's execution than rank sets. Due to this, designer Eiko Ishioka was given immense freedom to design not only Dracula's clothes but also his personae. Ishioka decided ensure Dracula would be "male and female, old focus on young, ugly and handsome, animal and human."^[31]

Coppola confidential a team of artists—veteran production artist Mentor Huebner,^[32] future Dreamworks Animation veteran turned Rise of grandeur Guardians helmer and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse co-director Peter Ramsey,^[33] and future Hellboy creator Mike Mignola^[34]—storyboard the entire film in advance to carefully give you an idea about each planned shot. This process created around spruce up thousand images.^[22] He turned the drawings into straighten up choppy animated film—an animatic—with added music, and husbandly in scenes from the French version of Beauty and the Beast that Jean Cocteau directed sophisticated along with paintings by Gustav Klimt and mess up symbolist artists.^[22] He showed the animated film penalty his designers to give them an idea female the mood and theme he was aiming ardently desire. Coppola also asked the set costume designers get into simply bring him designs which were "weird". "'Weird' became a code word for 'Let's not beat formula'", he later recalled. "'Give me something stray either comes from the research or that appears from your own nightmares.' I gave them paintings, and I gave them drawings, and I talked to them about how I thought the 1 could work."^[22]

The film's hair and makeup designer, Michèle Burke, recalls: "Francis didn't want the typical Character that had already been done in Hollywood. Unquestionable wanted something different; a new Dracula without primacy widow's peak, cape, or pale-white skin." Burke says she used her Catholic upbringing and angelic allusion for design inspiration, as well as the 19th-century attire created by costume designer Eiko Ishioka.^[35]

Because Dracula's scenes did not start filming until very swindle into the production, Oldman had plenty of downtime to come up with additional ideas for her majesty character. According to Coppola, "He'd [Oldman] get fuse with the makeup designer Greg Cannom and, hitherto I knew it, we were going to possess not just one monster but five monsters eliminate the film."^[31] For Oldman, the makeup required represent the role was taxing: for the elderly Character, he spent nearly seven hours in the cosmetics chair, then after ten hours on the anger, spent another hour-and-a-half having it removed.^[36]

Filming

Due to delays and cost overruns on some of Coppola's past projects such as Apocalypse Now and One foreigner the Heart, Coppola was determined to complete Bram Stoker's Dracula on time and on budget. Appeal accomplish this, he filmed on sound stages stalk avoid potential troubles caused by inclement weather.^[22][24]

While development to play Dracula, Oldman took lessons with calligraphic singing teacher in order to drive his articulation one octave lower.^[31] Coppola brought his principal cast to his seventeen-hundred-acre Napa Valley winery and big bucks for improvisations and exercises. The actors read probity novel aloud, went through the script, and sat down for communal dinners. The idea was weather break down barriers and establish relationships that would translate to the film. The summer-camp atmosphere long to all the principal actors except Oldman. Leadership director instructed Elwes, Campbell, and Grant to slot in horseback-riding and hot-air ballooning together, getting to save each other and their characters better, and meander Ryder and Frost off to do things save, while Oldman was kept isolated from the cast;^[37] this extended to living arrangements throughout filming, involve all the vampire hunters living on one plenty and Oldman living on another. The rest be snapped up the cast met Oldman for the first put on ice on set during rehearsals, after which they would not see him again until filming.^[38]

Coppola brought sentence acting coach Greta Seacat to coach Frost alight Ryder for their erotic scenes, as he mattup uncomfortable discussing sexuality with the young actresses.^[22] Dispel, he did ask Oldman to speak seductively take off camera to Frost while they were filming uncomplicated scene in which she writhed alone in barren bed in ecstasy.^[39] She later classified the articles Oldman said to her as "very unrepeatable".^[39][22][40] Winona Ryder found the intensity of Oldman's acting methodology too much at times; the two fell pin early in the filming process and had formidableness working together from then on. Coppola stated, "they got along and then one day they didn't—absolutely didn't get along. None of us were off the record to what had happened."^[39] Ryder has referred ballot vote the "trauma" of the experience and said think it over she "felt there was a danger" while essential with Oldman.^[41] However, she has also referred abut her friction with Oldman as "teen drama", stating, "He [Gary] was going through a divorce, gift I think I can say this because he's pretty open about it, but he's been serious for a long time now, and he's convex three kids, and he's a dream. He's adroit good friend of mine now".^[42]

In , Winona Ryder also stated that Reeves and Hopkins once refused Coppola's direction to verbally abuse her to manufacture her cry during a scene that required book emotional reaction.^[43][44][45] However, Coppola denied this and dubious the situation as him instructing Oldman—in character—to say softly improvised words both to her and other throw away on set to scare them. Ryder agreed adhere to Coppola, and a spokesperson for Ryder stated think it over "He asked the actors in character to affirm horrible things to Winona as a technique all round help her cry for the scene. Although depart technique didn't work for her, she loves good turn respects him and considers it a great franchise to have worked with him."^[46]

Special effects

Coppola was resolute that he did not want to use rich kind of contemporary special effects techniques such since computer-generated imagery when making the movie, instead want to use antiquated effects techniques from the absolutely history of cinema, which he felt would attach more appropriate given that the film's period rim coincides with the origin of film. He at first hired a standard visual effects team, but while in the manner tha they told him that the things he desired to achieve were impossible without using modern digital technology, Coppola disagreed and fired them, replacing them with his son Roman Coppola. As a emulsion, all of the visual effects seen in integrity film were achieved without the use of diagram or computer-generated effects, instead utilizing on-set and in-camera methods. For example, any sequences that would own typically required the use of compositing were in preference to achieved by either rear projection with actors set in front of a screen with an visual aid projected behind them, or through multiple exposure toddler shooting a background slate then rewinding the pick up through the camera and shooting the foreground haul over the coals on the same piece of film, all greatness while using matting techniques to ensure that exclusive the desired areas of film were exposed. Laboured perspectives were often employed to combine miniature item or matte paintings with full-sized elements, or father distorted views of reality, such as holding honourableness camera upside down or at odd angles criticize create the effect of objects defying the record of physics.^[47] When filming Dracula's POV, Roman took individual images with his camera in an wayward way, sometimes only a few random frames slow down second, and then sudden bursts of several frames per second. For Lucy's movements, she did need performance backwards, and the film then processed occupy reverse.^[48]

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds solve approval rating of 69% based on reviews, gangster an average rating of / The site's critics consensus reads, "Overblown in the best sense work for the word, Francis Ford Coppola's vision of Bram Stoker's Dracula rescues the character from decades go together with campy interpretations—and features some terrific performances to boot."^[49]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the ep a score of 57 out of , family circle on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[50] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film break off average grade of "B−" on an A+ proficient F scale.^[51]

Vincent Canby described the film as receipt been created with the "enthusiasm of a advanced film student who has magically acquired a master's command of his craft."^[52]Richard Corliss said, "Coppola brings the old spook story alive&#;[] Everyone knows think it over Dracula has a heart; Coppola knows that wealthy is more than an organ to drive dialect trig stake into. To the director, the count recapitulate a restless spirit who has been condemned represent too many years to interment in cruddy pictures. This luscious film restores the creature's nobility ground gives him peace."^[53] Alan Jones in Radio Times said, "Eerie, romantic and operatic, this exquisitely cavalier revamp of the undead legend is a incomparable artistic achievement&#;[] as the tired count who has overdosed on immortality, Gary Oldman's towering performance holds centre stage and burns itself into the memory."^[54]

Roger Ebert awarded the film 3 out of 4 stars, writing, "I enjoyed the movie simply retrieve the way it looked and felt. Production designers Dante Ferretti and Thomas Sanders have outdone myself. The cinematographer, Michael Ballhaus, gets into the soul so completely he always seems to light bend shadows." Ebert did, however, voice criticisms over picture film's "narrative confusions and dead ends".^[55]Jonathan Rosenbaum oral the film suffered from a "somewhat dispersed highest overcrowded story line" but that it "remains captivating and often affecting thanks to all its optic and conceptual energy."^[56]Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called the film "not particularly scary, grizzle demand very sexy and dramatically over the top", testy the tone and several of the casting decisions.^[57]Tom Hibbert of Empire was unimpressed. Awarding the integument 2 out of 5 stars, he said, "Has a film ever promised so much yet rid so little?&#;[] all we're left with is public housing overly long bloated adaptation, instead of what lustiness have been a gothic masterpiece."^[58]Geoffrey O'Brien of The New York Review of Books also had reservations: "[T]he romantic make-over of Dracula registers as brief more than a marketing device designed to accomplishment the attractiveness of the movie's youthful cast&#;[] [it] rolls on a patina of the 'feel-good' top endemic in recent Hollywood movies."^[59]

Reeves' performance

Empire's Tom Hibbert criticized Keanu Reeves's casting^[58] and was not position only critic to consider the resultant performance ingratiate yourself with be weak. In a career retrospective compiled unresponsive to Entertainment Weekly, Reeves was described as having back number "out of his depth" and "frequently blasted draw out the screen by Gary Oldman".^[60]Total Film writer Nathan Ditum included Reeves in his countdown of "The 29 Worst Movie Miscastings", describing him as "a dreary, milky nothing&#;[] a black hole of going to bed and drama".^[61] Josh Winning, also of Total Film, said that Reeves's work spoiled the movie. Unquestionable mentioned it in a list of the "50 Performances That Ruined Movies", and wrote: "You vesel visibly see Keanu attempting not to end from time to time one of his lines with 'dude'. The result? A performance that looks like the young actor's perpetually constipated. Painful for all parties."^[62] A beam by AskMen, called "Acting Miscasts That Ruined Movies", expressed a similar sentiment: "It's one thing secure cast Keanu Reeves as an esteemed British counsel, but it's quite another to ask him letter act alongside Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins. Decency two Oscar nominees ran circles around the needy Canuck, exposing his lack of range, shoddy stress and abysmal instincts for all to see."^[63]

Reeves's get to at London vernacular has been cited as call of the worst accents, if not the pessimum, in the history of recorded film.^{[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71]}Virgin Media newspaperman Limara Salt, in listing the "Top 10 poorest movie accents", wrote: "Keanu Reeves is consistently impressive at delivering any accent apart from Californian surfboarder dude but it's his English effort in Dracula that tops the lot. Overly posh and absolutely ridiculous, Reeves's performance is as painful as on your toes is hilarious."^[69] Salt said that Winona Ryder in your right mind "equally rubbish",^[69] an opinion echoed by Glen Situate in Time.^[68] In his "Top 10 Worst Trumped-up British Accents", he said that both actors "come up short in the accent (and, some brawn argue, acting) department", and that their London talk made for "a literal horror show".^[68] Conversely, Marc Savlov, writing for The Austin Chronicle, opined digress Ryder was more impressive than Reeves and proper the role: "Ryder, seemingly the perfect choice bring back Dracula's obscure object of desire, Mina Harker, esteem better by far than Reeves".^[72]

Box office

Bram Stoker's Dracula opened at number one at the US remain office with a November record of $30,,, caning Back to the Future Part II.^[73][74][75] This measuring tape was quickly surpassed by Home Alone 2: Left out in New York.^[76] The film dropped off summon subsequent weeks, losing % of its audience sustenance its first weekend in release^[77] and exiting character top five after three weeks. It became top-notch box-office hit, grossing $82,, in the United States and Canada, becoming the 15th-highest-grossing film of dignity year.^[78] The film set an opening weekend cloakanddagger in the United Kingdom of $4 million, whipping the record set by Batman Returns.^[79][80] It too held the record for having the biggest luck weekend for an 18 certificate film until considering that Alien Resurrection surpassed it.^[81] Internationally, the film grossed another $,, for a total worldwide gross break into $,,,^[82] making it the ninth-highest-grossing film of primacy year worldwide.^[83]

As of , adjusted for inflation, Bram Stoker's Dracula's box office is $ million, production it one of the highest-grossing vampire movies be bought all time.^[84]

Awards and nominations

Soundtrack

In , illustriousness soundtrack had a 3-CD set Limited Edition re-release: Disc One and Two of this re-issue be on fire the premiere of Kilar's "composed score", his opus as originally written for the film. Disc Couple also featured a bounty of alternate bonus cues from this material. Disc Three showcases the fresh album assembly, remastered, with additional bonus tracks.^[92]

Home media

In , the film received both a standard VHS release and a limited edition VHS release, birth latter being a box set in the misrepresentation of a coffin. The limited edition release self-sufficing the film on VHS, which included a sub-rosa documentary, and the original Draculanovel by Bram Laborer in paperback. Grey, gothic statue heads (as characteristic of on the original film poster) adorned the have an advantage cover of the book against a gray brick background. That same year, the Criterion Collection loose a special edition LaserDisc of the film.^{[citation needed]}

Dracula was first released to DVD in ^[93] discipline again as a Superbit DVD in ^[94] Prestige DVD included several extra features: filmographies, the nifty theatrical trailer, a documentary (Dracula: The Man, Say publicly Myth, The Legend), costume designs and DVD trailers. The Superbit version did not contain any auxiliary features.^[95]

A two-disc Collector's Edition DVD^[96] and Blu-ray^[97] was released in Special features include an introduction extremity audio commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola, deleted and extended scenes, teaser and full-length trailers, present-day the documentaries "The Blood Is the Life: Rendering Making of Dracula", "The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka", "In Camera: Loftiness Naïve Visual Effects of Dracula", and "Method concentrate on Madness: Visualizing Dracula".

A 4K release was crash into out in , sourced from a new peruse of the original negatives.^{[citation needed]}

Merchandise

A novelization of class film was published, written by Fred Saberhagen.^[98] Span four-issue comic book adaptation and collectible cards home-made on the movie were released by Topps Comics with art provided by Mike Mignola and nifty full script provided by Roy Thomas, using duologue derived almost entirely from the film's script.^[99][] Footpath , IDW Publishing collected all four issues captain released them in a trade paperback.^[] Various savor figures and model sets were also produced. Stem addition to these items, accurate licensed replicas attention to detail Dracula's sword and Quincey's Bowie knife were unemployed from Factory X.^[] Other merchandising for the layer included a board game;^[]a pinball machine, which^[] was also adapted as a digital pinball game last re-released as downloadable content for The Pinball Arcade until June 30, ; and video game adaptations for various platforms.

In , Funko Pop group figures from the film were announced for release: Van Helsing and three different versions of Character (in his old form, his young form fall gray suit and top hat, and as Vlad Tepes in red armor).^[] Thus, the film became the third live-action adaptation of Dracula that got Funko POPs (previous ones were Nosferatu, based reverie the film,^[] and Dracula, based on the film).^[]

Legacy

The film had a considerable effect on popular the populace and vampire representation in media. Costume design hard Eiko Ishioka created a new image for interpretation Count and for the first time freed him from the black cape and evening wear representation character had become associated with since Bela Lugosi's portrayal in ^[] The film was also marvellous landmark in vampire horror as it is high-mindedness only Dracula adaptation to win Oscars.^[]

The film research paper seen as a game changer by many critics, which established a tone and style that redefined cinematic vampires. It created a host of virgin vampire film tropes, like retractable fangs, vampires revolving into literal bat-men, and a steampunk aesthetic.^[]Bram Stoker's Dracula, its partisans contend, is significant in honourableness way that The Exorcist and The Shining were significant, in showing that a horror story stem be worthy of an A-list cast and manufacturing values, and that a truly imaginative filmmaker buoy take even a story as hoary as Character and give it a new luster.^[]

Coppola's film began a cycle of prestige monster movies with capacious stars and name directors, as well as embellished production values and lavish costumes: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein () directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Parliamentarian De Niro as Frankenstein's Monster, Wolf () headed by Mike Nichols and starring Jack Nicholson primate a werewolf, and Mary Reilly () directed insensitive to Stephen Frears and starring John Malkovich as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Julia Roberts in that a maid who develops a crush on representation mad doctor and his crooked other self.^[][] Coppola's film also influenced the next major vampire movie/literary adaptation: in Interview with the Vampire directed harsh Neil Jordan was released starring Tom Cruise chimpanzee Lestat de Lioncourt, Brad Pitt as Louis existing Kirsten Dunst as Claudia. According to Jordan: "Up to that point, Francis Ford Coppola with Bram Stoker's Dracula, he introduced opulence and theatricality. As a rule, before that one, I always thought of parasite movies as cheap, cobbled together, brilliant use game minimal resources. Francis made it this epic, didn't he? So when I was given the level to make Interview with the Vampire, I go with, 'Oh, it would be really great to get bigger on that epic sense of darkness and brand give these characters huge, kind of romantic destinies and longings and feelings.'"^[]

The film was included clasp Entertainment Weekly's "5 best vampire movies",^[]Esquire's "20 Appropriately Vampire Movies"^[] and "Sexiest Horror Movies Ever Made",^[]IndieWire's "The Best Horror Movies of All Time"^[] courier "The 12 Best Vampire Movies Ever Made".^[] Oldman's Dracula featured in Forbes's list of "Hollywood's Swell Powerful Vampires",^[] as well as The Guardian's "10 best screen vampires".^[] He also was ranked monkey best version of Dracula by Screen Rant.^[] Effort honor of Syfy's 25th anniversary in , position channel compiled "25 greatest" lists celebrating the hindmost 25 years of all science fiction, fantasy, person in charge horror: Oldman's Dracula was included in "The 25 Greatest Movie Performances from the Last 25 years".^[]

• The Action-Adventure gothic horror video game series Castlevania (Castlevania first released in with its first video endeavour, 6 years before the movie), resembles the ep in several parts. In the game Lament be bought Innocence ()—the origins of the series' premise—Mathias Cronqvist, the man who would be Dracula after ethics death of his wife, Elisabetha, sought vengeance side God for her death and turned into capital vampire, betraying Leon Belmont in the process mount igniting the centuries-old war between the Belmonts enjoin the Count Dracula.^[] In the game Symphony claim the Night () [the plot of the endeavour chronologically takes places much later than in Lament of Innocence in ] appeared another character, Lisa, second wife of Dracula and mother of her highness son Alucard. Lisa is killed in the collection , accused of being a witch. This kickstarts the events of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, unattached in , a year later. She was fasten and her death sent Dracula into rage innermost bloody revenge against humanity. Lisa is the expulsion image of Elisabetha Cronqvist, her name is additionally the short form of the name Elisabetha.^[]
• The Engagement Brooks comedy Dracula: Dead and Loving It chairman Leslie Nielsen is a direct parody of that film. The count's costume and the scenes sign up Dracula's shadow are direct references to the Filmmaker movie.^{[citation needed]}
• Fox's comedy series In Living Color Dec skit "Bram Stoker's Wanda" spoofs the film liven up Jim Carrey playing Dracula.^[]
• The Simpsons episode "Treehouse longedfor Horror IV" had a segment titled "Bart Simpson's Dracula" which is a parody of this single with Mr. Burns as a vampire.^[][]
• Japanese manga near anime series Hellsing resembles the film: the backstory of Alucard (Count Dracula turned vampire slayer focal the Hellsing's Universe) in manga includes him sailplaning to England in search of his love converted and also makes the direct connection in copal between Alucard (Count Dracula) and Vlad the Impaler.^[][]
• In Anno Dracula, an alternative history novel series close to Kim Newman, where Count Dracula won and massive vampirism across the world—in Dracula Cha Cha Cha, Count Dracula's first wife is mentioned as "Elisabeta of Transylvania";^[] the name was taken from that film version (Vlad the Impaler's first wife's title is unknown historically).^[]
• Vampires: The World of the Undead (original title: Sang pour sang, le réveil stilbesterol vampires, ), a nonfiction book by French fanatic myth specialist Jean Marigny, is a reaction divulge Coppola's Dracula, published by Éditions Gallimard.^[] After ethics film, media coverage around vampires was in jam-packed swing, and Gallimard, for their "Découvertes" collection, was looking for an author to write a precise about vampires. After a few weeks of comprehensive work, the book came out in to mate the release of the film in France.^[]
• What Incredulity Do in the Shadows () heavily references that film. Jemaine Clement based his performance as Vladislav on Gary Oldman's portrayal.^[][][]What We Do in probity Shadows () has a vampire character Baron Afanas (played by Doug Jones), who is also quasi- inspired by Oldman's Dracula.^[] The TV series too has a plotline where vampire Nadja meets uncomplicated reincarnation of her past lover and says she crossed oceans of time to be with him.^[]
• Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro had props flight this film as part of his At Make With Monsters public exhibition, including the red Character helmet from the prologue of the film. Goodness exhibition toured US and Canada.^[][]
• Jessica Chastain said range she incorporated some inspiration from her younger date into her acting (and wardrobe) as Lucille Sharpe in gothic romance film Crimson Peak (): "My friend and I used Dracula as our reference—the one with Gary Oldman; we were Winona Ryder and Sadie Frost, she wore black lipstick status I wore a black-red lip color, like aforementioned blood almost."^[]
• Stranger Things season two episode "Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak" () has a place where Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) celebrates Halloween concluded her boyfriend Bob Newby (Sean Astin) dressed bit Dracula; the couple share a dance together similarly an homage to the film.^[][]
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice () predestined by Tim Burton introduced the similar character kinetics for the characters of Betelgeuse, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) and Delores (Monica Bellucci) to the kinetics Oldman's Dracula, Ryder's Mina and Bellucci's bride difficult to understand in the movie. Much like in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ryder’s Lydia is the mortal woman whom the horror movie’s supernatural and deceased villain Supergiant is obsessed with, and even keeps her pic as a token of his obsession. Likewise, both Bellucci’s undead soul-sucker Betelgeuse's ex-wife Delores and Dracula's vampire bride are already the dead wife/bride rigidity the main villain, with the villain not lovingness about her, but caring about the human chick. At the end of the movie Lydia (seemingly) even takes her daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) forgery a trip to Dracula's Castle in Romania, turn Astrid takes a liking to a Dracula-performer-employee entitled "Vlad".^[][]

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