Not the stuff of which legends are made

Rating: 3/10 (28 October 2007)

"Bram Stoker's Dracula" (the film's full title) is based on the legendary nightmarish creation of Bram Stoker's amazing imagination. This movie is reputed to be the closest anyone has come to the original story of the Transylvanian bloodsucker, 'Prince Vlad the Impaler', better known as 'Dracul'.
The cast are competent, and Gary Oldman is uncanny and eerie as "Dracula" (as he was in "J.F.K." as 'Oswald'). If you like the dark, macabre and surreal, you'll enjoy Coppolla's obsessive love story. For me though all the overpowering evil was a little too much. Not the stuff of which legends are made.
Sunday, January 10, 1993 - Hoyts Forest Hill Chase