Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992

type: Movie

language: Bulgarian

duration: 128 min

genre: horror

theme: vampire

director: Francis Ford Coppola

Score: 7 / 10

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by James V. Hart, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. The film stars Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and Keanu Reeves, with Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Billy Campbell, Sadie Frost, and Tom Waits in supporting roles. Set in 19th-century England and Romania, it follows the eponymous vampire (Oldman), who falls in love with Mina Murray (Ryder), the fiancée of his solicitor Jonathan Harker (Reeves). When Dracula begins terrorizing Mina's friends, Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Hopkins), an expert in vampirism, is summoned to bring an end to his reign of terror. Its closing credits theme "Love Song for a Vampire", was written and performed by Annie Lennox.

Plot

In 1462, Vlad Dracula returns from a victory in his campaign against the Ottoman Empire to find his beloved wife Elisabeta has committed suicide after his enemies falsely reported his death. A priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church tells him that his wife's soul is damned to Hell for committing suicide. Enraged, Vlad desecrates the chapel and renounces the Christian God, declaring he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness. He then drives his sword into the chapel's stone cross and drinks the blood that pours from it, becoming a vampire.

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author	James V. Hart
award	Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling Academy Award for Best Sound Editing Saturn Award for Best Costume Saturn Award for Best Director
contentLocation	London Transylvania
director	Francis Ford Coppola
editor	Anne Goursaud Glen Scantlebury Nicholas C. Smith
events	human sexuality libido New Woman rivalry sexual desire sexual morality sexual repression vampire
genre	horror
keywords	abraham van helsing arthur holmwood best friend brides of dracula chant christian god communion wafer count dracula damn hell his brides his campaign jack seward john seward jonathan harker kukri lucy westenra mina harker mina murray morning murder night attack at târgoviște ottoman empire quincey morris r. m. renfield real estate renfield ring of fire romani romani people romanian orthodox church sail solicitor stabbed in the back suicide terrorize van helsing vlad dracula vlad the impaler warn
musicBy	Wojciech Kilar
nomination	Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Editing BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss Saturn Award for Best Costume
producer	Charles Mulvehill Francis Ford Coppola Fred Fuchs
productionCompany	American Zoetrope Osiris Films
publisher	Columbia Pictures
recordedAt	Bulgaria Holy Trinity Chapel
theme	vampire