The Greatest Vampire Flick Ever

Rating: Null/10 (8 December 2000)

This is a great, if not equally appreciated, movie. The sets look true to the period, as are the clothes, the plot is a lot closer to the original novel with all of Mina Westernra's finally added and just the right amount of light nudity to hold a guy's interest (Oh boy,Am I going to get mail on that comment!). The only thing I didn't like was the lack of how Dracula got to be a vampire; because he wished it ? Winona Ryder and Sadie Frost are sexy, and Keanu Reeves pulls off a fair if not befuddled performance as if he's still rather distracted by his scene with the female vampires. "Were two of them glued together at the crotch ?" Cary Elwes is one of the heroes, but at times Anthony Hopkins' Van Helsing looks like Hannibal Lecter ! The score in the theater,though, was deafening, but is appreciated much more on video. Gary Oldham makes me forget he once played Lee Harvey Oswald, but then he is almost indistinguishable as the young or old Dracula. His wig was lampooned hysterically by Leslie Nielsen in "Dracula:Dead and Loving It." This movie goes to the top of my favorite vampire movies list near "Lemora" and "Interview of the Vampire," but I just have to ask: would it have hurt to leave Winona or Sadie as a vampire ?