Dracula

posted 4 years ago by dnewhous (3)
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There is a rare version of Dracula that is a bit of a classic. I have seen it on network TV, so it is not that rare, and maybe a made for TV movie. The version that is most similar is the 1977 BBC production because of the way Dracula looks. He doesn't really die all that badly in a lot of these movies. In the BBC production, it looks way too much like he is conceding to the vampire hunters to bring himself to an end. In this one, he is stabbed by some sort of cross with a pointy end like something out of a Castlevania video game and is more miserable than in other movies. He also uses telekinesis and demonstrates he is stronger than in other movies. The plots of most of the Dracula movies follow the book rather closely - this plot seamed original. But that's a lot to expect of a made for TV movie. I don't remember most of the movie very much. At the beginning I think I remember him looking at a raven haired beauty and looking like he wished he could be human. It was such a genuine look I wondered as a boy if he really were a vampire. Maybe that's where the sensitive vampire cliche came from.

[–] dnewhous (3) 4 years ago

Plotwise the only comparison is Dracula 1972, which features Saruman v Sherlock Holmes. The Hound of the Baskervilles with Peter Cushing is the definitive Sherlock Holmes movie. Saruman was in a lot of Dracula movies. This one is obviously supposed to be "hip." Sherlock Holmes does use a "silver knife" on Dracula at the end. That is a Castlevania weapon.

The first film in the series, the Horror of Dracula, has a big crucifix in it, so it is a little bit like the movie I am looking for.

K, I found it. Dracula has Risen from the Grave. Middle of the Sherlock Holmes series of vampire movies. Death by crucifix impalement. The heroine is blond.

I think there is confusion in the titles because of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which, if anything, is the "Dracula" by being faithful to the source material.

There is a scene in the beginning with a bloody rope that is an allusion to The Speckled Banner.

Darth Saruman went on to be the voice actor for King Haggard in the Last Unicorn.