Here Be Vampires!

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Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

I was fortunate enough to see much of the production of Coppola's Dracula firsthand - it is one of my favorite movies, and a REMARKABLE demonstration of classic in camera effects and overall craftsmanship.

I'd love to have a movie night at our house, to watch "Martin" followed by Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" - it's a fantastic Bluray now

The old school in-camera effects, the costume design, and general sumptuous visuals make this movie worth revisiting, but I hated what they did with the character of Lucy (turning her into a blatant c**k-tease), and the whole reincarnated-love-from-my-past angle is completely alien to Stoker. (Which wouldn't matter if they hadn't made such a big deal out of supposedly being a faithful adaptation.) But any movie with Tom Waits as Renfield deserves a look.

I haven't seen Martin in a long time, and only once, at the dawn of the VHS era. I'll have to put that in the queue again soon.