Bram Stoker’s Dracula: 30th Anniversary – UHD/Blu-ray/Digital

Perhaps the best and most elaborate Dracula movie ever produced, and an excellent transfer to Blu-ray format. If you’re a fan of the classic Dracula story, get this movie.

Arrived on time and in the quality that it was listed for when I ordered it. Would definitely order from this place/person again.

This DVD arrived in excellent condition. Gary Oldman is one legendary actor!!

Great Dracula film! One of if not the best Dracula films ever made. Second only to the 1931 Bela Legosi Dracula film from Universal pictures.

Bill Preston Esquire alias Jonathan Harker alias Keanu Reeves is sent to Transylvania to set up a land buying deal in his native England for the mysterious Count Dracula. While he's there the Count notices a picture of Jonathan's fiance, Nina, played by the ever popular shop lifter Winona Ryder (she used to be a thing). Nina just happens to be the reincarnated love of Dracula's life 400 years previously and whose death caused him to go to the dark side. He was already going to have a buffet in jolly ole england, but this gives him an added incentive. Dracula leaves Keanu locked up with his sexy blood sucking wives, which includes the once beautiful and still big bosomed Monica Bellucci biting him where the sun doesn't shine. Once Dracula sails for London, the blood will flow.I remember seeing this movie when it originally came out in 1992 and I don't remember liking it that much. I watched it again when it came out on Blu-ray and had the same reaction. I guess the third time is the charm because this time around on 4K I really enjoyed the movie.Everytime I have seen this movie the thing that really stood out about was the overall look of the film and its gorgeous color palette. Even the times I viewed the film and did not care for it, the style alone was impressive. This stands out even more with the 4K format. Red of course being the main tone used by Coppola.Something I really noticed this third viewing was how this film was a homage to the early 1930s Universal monster films. This was mainly due to the fact that Coppola used sound stages for the entire film, giving it that old timey play feel like 1931's Dracula or Frankenstein. You would think that would make it more claustrophobic. It didn't. I felt it gave the director more control over his vision and contributed a lot to the dreamlike tone poem nature of the movie.As usual in a Coppola production, the cast is first rate. Keanu does an admirable job even though this isn't his usual movie role. Anthony Hopkins steals the show with his weird take on a leg humping Van Helsing who I wondered at times whether HE was a vampire! This was one year after his definitive role in Silence of the Lambs. Gary Oldman eats the scenery with his over the top reptilian romantic lover act.There's a very strong sexual repression theme running through the movie in that everyone in the movie seems to be very badly in need of getting laid. Mina and her friend Lucy constantly seem to long for scoring a home run but the men around them seemed reluctant to take them up on their offer because they are not aggressive enough. It's almost like Dracula has come to give them what they want: Erotic bliss and pleasure. I think mosquitoes and vampire bats inject their victims with some sort of saliva that numbs the piercing of the flesh. Vampires use their seductive charms to make their painful bites seems almost orgasmic. It's almost a promise of freedom to feel the sting of their fangs. Too late their victims realize that they will become slaves to blood lust along with being immortal.Another throwback to the classic days of monster movies was that all the effects in the movie were either practical or done with actual physical film tricks. No CGI, so everything looks organic. You gotta think, this was the year Terminator 2 came out and one year before Jurassic Park.The third time was the charm as far as this movie goes. Thoroughly enjoyed the almost adult scooby doo nature of the film in that Mina and Lucy's friends have to team up to defeat the evil Dracula once and for all!The film won Academy Awards for best costume design, best make up, and best sound effects editing in 1992 and fully deserved those awards.

This is by far the very best Dracula movie ever made. After watching the new Nosferatu and being so bored I thought the movie was more like 10 hours long, I decided to rewatch Coppola's Dracula. This is beyond what a Hollywood movie should be. This is how all movies should be made. The script was full and meaningful. Gary Oldman is 100 out 10. The actress who played Lucy is sultry and is definitely copied poorly in the newer Nosferatu. Without this Dracula, the newer Nosferatu would have nothing to go on. But because I just saw the new Nosferatu today and was so disgusted by my wasted time and money, I immediately bought Bram Stocker's Dracula so at least Nosferatu did something good. Now I have Coppola's Dracula to watch for many years to come and will soon wash the gawd awful stench of Egger's amateurish copy off of me.

The 4k is gorgeous. Really stunning and atmospheric. Nice filmic grain. What i think is also overlooked is the soundtrack. This movie in Dolby Atmos sounds incredible!! Sooo much detail in the sound..it's all around you and adds to the spooky, operatic quality of this iconic movie. A must buy (I bought 2 copies)!!!

This admirable and perhaps unparalleled vampire film brings us both the classic monster and star-crossed lover alike. Iconic horror atmosphere coupled with dark fantasy, romance and a major budget. Wow.To anyone casually strolling up to this film for the first time, I’d remind you that it’s approaching 30 years old and (among a divisive crowd) it should be regarded with respect. I remain pleased with the production to this day, but some of the impressively designed sets (e.g., the altar scene when Dracula drinks the blood of the cross) may strike some as “small.” I hadn’t seen this since my college years (maybe around 2001-2003). I recall loving it and, you know what? I still do—as Dracula did Elisabeta.The introduction to our famous monster’s origins paints suffering in Dracula’s war path to return to his love Elisabeta (Winona Ryder; Beetlejuice, Stranger Things, Heathers), with unsubtle brushstrokes reddening his berserk discovery of her death. Yell at a few priests, you go to confession. Drink the blood of Christ in an act against Christ… you forfeit your humanity.Gary Oldman is one of the silver screen’s great treasures. Manic in Sid and Nancy (1986), terrifying in Leon: The Professional (1994), and embracing cheeky villainy in The Fifth Element (1997; podcast), his range is broad and admirable. Oldman always brings his A-game, yet here things feel even a bit more intense than his oft-dire presence typically permits. Whether emotionally exploding in a cathedral imbibing the Lord’s blood in sacrilege, or questioning the fate of his love mid-blood baptisim, he is wonderful as our stylish Dracula!Director Francis Ford Coppola’s (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) undead adaptation was ambitious. This film really went for it! It may be regarded by some as “a bit much,” but I think its atmosphere conveyed a sense appropriate for horror-fantasy. The opening scene’s religious influences, the horrific mystique of Transylvania, Jonathan’s (Keanu Reeves; Constantine, Knock Knock, The Neon Demon, John Wick) letter-narrated journey to the foreign land, and Van Helsing’s (Anthony Hopkins; Westworld, The Wolfman, Silence of the Lambs) harrowing yet hammed-up accounts of Dracula’s oversea journey all pour over a sense of epic saga.Dracula’s incredibly long robe and almost impishly unmatching shadow, blood geysers bursting from the sides of the bedroom and the Raimi-esque blood vomit, his curiously demonic coachman, the hyper-erotic illness striking its victims and turning Keanu into a sexualized blood bag for the brides of Dracula (including Monica Bellucci; The Brothers Grimm, The Brotherhood of the Wolf, Matrix: Reloaded), and Van Helsing’s garish commentary regarding the mutilation of a corpse all contribute to this incredibly stylish, star-studded and ambitious endeavor.The wonderful make-up for Dracula’s hybrid wolf and bat forms, the skittish wall-crawling (reminiscent of 1990’s Exorcist III and 1988’s Fright Night part II), and the inclusive effort covering all of the classic folklore (e.g., mirrors, stakes, reflections, crucifixes, garlic) contribute to this admirable and perhaps unparalleled vampire film—bringing us both monster and star-crossed lover alike. This delivered a classic horror atmosphere coupled with dark fantasy, romance and a major budget. What can I say? I’m a fan.