directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Dear witches, vampires, zombies and other creatures, it’s your day! Halloween has come! And since we have so many spooky productions, I have to write about one today. I’ve chosen “Dracula” from 1992. If you expected a really scary film, then I’m sorry, not this year. However, “Dracula” is considered a horror and it may be creepy for the sensitive ones, so I feel obliged to write about it since it’s a damn good production. This time, I’ll let myself skip the description part. I bet everyone reading my post has heard of the story of Dracula, the scary vampire from Transylvania. There are several adaptations of the novel “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, but this one is quite specific, I would say. Instead of making it just a creepy story, Coppola managed to create the whole “Dracula wonderland”, if I may put it this way. I was watching this film as if someone was telling me a legend and I fell asleep imagining everything. Creepy? Maybe a little, but I seriously got into this world deeply. They say that before shooting the film, Coppola asked the main cast to read the whole novel together at loud. Not the screenplay, the actual book. If that’s the secret to prepare your actors well, then dear filmmakers, time to read more! Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves are fabulous as always, but the show belongs to Gary Oldman and I guess we can all agree with that. I can tell he really worked hard to make Dracula so extraordinary. And even though I don’t find this film scary, he gave me the horror chills I hoped for. Besides, I was absolutely moved by the score by Wojciech Kilar, which was really on point. So if you’re celebrating Halloween today, but you don’t like those typical horrors with jumpscares or you simply don’t want to be afraid to go to the toilet alone at night, then “Dracula” is your film tonight. Enjoy and wish you a lot of spooky dreams!
My rating: 7/10
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I have nothing to watch 