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Dracula

Dracula

1973
Horror
TV Movie
1h 38m
May, 1897. British real estate clerk Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to conduct the purchase of a property in Whitby for Count Dracula. But Dracula is a vampire and allows Jonathan to be taken by his three brides. Five weeks later Dr Van Helsing is called to Whitby to tend Jonathan's fiancée Mina Murray and then Lucy Westenra as they fall inexplicably ill. Tracing the source of the illness brings Van Helsing up against Dracula who believes Lucy to be the reincarnation of his love and is determined to make her immortally his. (moria.co.nz)

Directed by:

Dan Curtis

Screenwriter:

Bram Stoker, Richard Matheson

Starring:

Jack Palance, Pamela Brown, Fiona Lewis, Nigel Davenport, Simon Ward, Penelope Horner

Genre:

Horror

AKAs:

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dan Curtis' Dracula

Country:

UK

Languages:

English, Russian, Hungarian
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Dracula

1973
Horror
TV Movie
1h 38m
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terrymacterrymac
Rated 05 Mar 2020
67
50th
Likeable and makes a reasonable attempt at dealing faithfully with the source material. Palance is very watchable in the role, and the story moves along at a nice pace. Perhaps undone somewhat by its budget, but this is a decent diversion.
Rated 05 Mar 2020
scribScrib
Rated 24 Jun 2022
50
14th
There are good visual elements, but overuse of daytime, lack of effective scoring and severe absence of acting talent hold this back. Palance isn't bad as the Count; it's everyone else that's the problem. That and clunky exposition, focusing on the wrong characters and dragging its heels in act 3. Scenes feed facts rather than pulling you into the narrative or developing characters, giving an experience akin to a wooden stage-play. Credit where credit's due: it's truer to the source than most.
Rated 24 Jun 2022
indyatmnINDYATMN
Rated 24 Dec 2021
74
36th
The prod design, locations, & performances are uniformly of a quality you don't always see even in modern monster movies. At the same time, the pacing is a little too early 70s tv movie & the film doesn't change much of the novel's ill-suited-to-a-film structure (jumping from character to character w/ no arcs) & Curtis seems incapable of staging a decent fight. It's refreshing that Drac doesn't quickly signal his evil & his looking for a lost love is initially compelling, but then it's discarded
Rated 24 Dec 2021
x_humanx-human
Rated 11 Nov 2013
73
38th
Jack Palance makes for one of the more animalistic portrayals of the Count in this fairly accurate adaptation; though it spirals more and more out of sync as it goes on. The production design is very good with some great on location shoots. Unfortunately this suffers from being lesser than the sum of its parts. One problem with it is carries over from the book but is compounded here by the low budget; that an all powerful creature is so easily overtaken.
Rated 11 Nov 2013
moviesinhellmoviesinhell
Rated 25 Mar 2009
63
21st
While modestly mounted and often static, Curtis's version represents a fairly earnest attempt to remain relatively faithful to its source. The production design may be threadbare compared to Coppola's -- Drac's Carpathian castle looks downright cheery here -- but Palance, as might be expected, makes for a singularly intense Transylvanian, ably conveying Dracula's rage and bringing out the famed bloodsucker's inherent pimp qualities as he convincingly abuses his stable of distaff vamps.
Rated 25 Mar 2009
ericamblerericambler
Rated 26 Oct 2022
70
46th
A surprisingly faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel that manages to include a lot of details that even longer adaptations tend to omit. (Drac's let the wolves out of the zoo!) Also enjoy how it approaches the material as a gothic soap opera. It's pretty spot-on and serves as a comfort zone for director Dan Curtis, creator of DARK SHADOWS, who also understands and appreciates the horror pedigree of his writer, Richard Matheson.
Rated 26 Oct 2022
braddad68braddad68
Rated 06 Aug 2020
86
23rd
Pretty good for a TV movie, but nothing was really added to this adaptation and the casting of Jack Palance as Count Dracula was odd.
Rated 06 Aug 2020
stainStain
Rated 04 Apr 2008
50
33rd
Jack Palance is too beefy to play a member of the undead. There are too many other problems for this movie to work, e.g., that the whole thing feels like a filmed stage play. A perfect example of how I used to never watch *any* TV movies while I was younger, 'cause even the productions with pedigree were just too cheesy
Rated 04 Apr 2008

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Directed by:

Dan Curtis

Screenwriter:

Bram Stoker, Richard Matheson

Starring:

Jack Palance, Pamela Brown, Fiona Lewis, Nigel Davenport, Simon Ward, Penelope Horner

Genre:

Horror

AKAs:

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dan Curtis' Dracula

Country:

UK

Languages:

English, Russian, Hungarian
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