Okay, it's been done before, but: Scariest Dracula Movie of all Time?

[KoKo]

Including TV? I hope I didn't miss a post about this in the last few weeks. And, I know it's been "beaten to death." If so, just ignore/snore.

[proud patriot]

1. Nosferatu (sp?)

I saw that movie when I was 10 years old
and it scared the crap out of me

[Another Bill C.]

4. I bought Nosferatu on DVD

I can't get anyone to watch it with me. My daughter wouldn't let my grandsons see it. Maybe it takes a certain eye to appreciate it.

[KoKo]

6. I've never seen Nosferatu! Isn't that the first "silent" version?

Is it available for rent?

[supernova]

11. Nosferatu

is the first silent film about the dracula legend. It's a german film by F W Murnau. It's one of my favs, but not to everyone's liking. And no, he's not a bit sexy here. x(

You can get it locally here at VisArt Video, well in Durham and Chapel Hill at least.



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/

[KoKo]

12. Thanks, I don't know why I never watched it. If I can't find in Raleigh

well check out Vis Arts......:-)'s

[wryter2000]

2. Actually

I find Dracula more sensual than scary. (Obviously, I'm not including Nosferatu in here.) And all the good ones are incredibly sensual. Lugosi set the standard, imho. In that one, there's also the scene in which Dracula's wives attack Renfield. The seduction of (more accurately) Harker in the PBS version with the Frenchman (blanking on the name) is even more explicitly sexual.

Of course, the sexiest Dracula of all time was Frank Langella. Oooooh, bite me....pleeeeeze!

The Francis Ford Coppola Dracula had some very silly things about it, but it was especially lush.

That didn't answer your question, but I sure had fun...:bounce:

[KoKo]

5. Yes! The Louis Jourdan PBS Dracula. Scariest and most sensual.

I've been trying to find this one, and the only source is in England, although Blockbuster has it up on their site with a "not available" disclaimer. Have always wondered why it wasn't repeated on PBS.

The Bela Lugosi "Dracula" was the scariest when I was a child. There been some other good ones, but the Jourdan is my favorite.




Starring Louis Jourdan as Count Dracula with Frank Finlay, Jack Shephard, Susan Penhaligon and Judi Bowker.

The BBC’s lavish production returned to Stoker’s original novel in which Count Dracula travels from Transylvania to England
where he faces his nemesis, Professor Van Helsing. A classic battle between good and evil ensues... but how do you kill an
opponent who is already dead?

2002 sees the 25th anniversary of possibly the eeriest, most erotic and highly acclaimed screen versions of Dracula ever produced.
Count Dracula was made by the BBC in 1977 and featured movie icon, Louis Jourdan as literature’s most transfixing
Transylvanian, supported by stars such as Frank Finlay, Jack Shephard, and Seventies femme fatale, Susan Penhaligon.

Widely and loudly acclaimed upon broadcast, Count Dracula has spent a quarter of a century in the crypts, but now it rises again
to be released for the very first time on DVD and video.

In 1977, Louis Jourdan commented, ‘People will be expecting blood and fangs and they will have all that. But… our version is
based on Bram Stoker’s book.’ A version of Dracula that was based on the novel and not merely a re-hash of every vampire
adventure since Bela Lugosi first donned cape and scowl in 1931 was something of a risk, but the reaction was universally
positive: ‘Bram Stoker’s original tale is back with us,’ declared Michael Church in The Times, ‘And with what panache. There
was scarcely a slack second in Gerald Savory’s dramatization, and for a two-and-a-half-hour blockbuster that is saying a lot.’

[Girlfriday]

3. No Dracula movie has ever scared me but......

...I loved Andy Warhol's with Udo Kier - "these whores are killing me!"

7. metaphor

that thing they just showed on cable about George Bush and 9/11

"Babylon System is the Vampire
Sucking the children day by day
Me say the Babylon System is the Vampire
Sucking the blood of the sufferers
Building church and university
Deceiving the people continually
Me say them graduating thieves and murderers" -- Bob Marley

[supernova]

8. I think of Dracula as more sexy than scary

There is even a whole subset of literary critcism devoted to the concept that the dracula thing represents the liberation of repressed female sexuality (she gets bit, and enjoys it, goes off to join him), and the "fear" here is really from conformist society represented by the scared as lilies males in the story.

Victorian corsets and manners, 'nuff said. Is an eternity of living at night really so bad when compared to that?

Granted, this may be reading more into the story than Bram Stoker originally intended. Afterall, he was just trying to get rid of an upset stomach! But it makes Dracula so much more fun to watch. LOL!

[underpants]

9. Love at first bite

Starring George Hamilton

[number six]

10. The first Hammer

It's gotta be Christopher Lee. That guy is Dracula. Albeit, they made about 10 more through the sixties and seventies like Taste the Blood of... and Satanic Rites of... that were just the campest shit ever.