Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Posted 28 November 2010 | Movies

Dracula (also known as Bram Stoker’s Dracula) is a 1992 American Gothic horror-romance thriller co-written, produced, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula and Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, also featuring Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker, and Sadie Frost as Lucy Westenra. Dracula was greeted by a generally positive critical reception and was a box office hit. The film’s score was composed by Wojciech Kilar and featured “Love Song for a Vampire” by Annie Lennox as the closing credits theme.

The story begins when a young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to the gloomy village of Transylvania in the mists of eastern Europe. Shortly after his arrival to this place with its cursed past around every corner, Jonathan finds himself at Castle Dracula following a strange carriage ride past blue flames and wolves. Once there he is captured by Dracula’s vampire brides and imprisoned by the undead vampire himself, who then travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker’s betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina’s closest friend, Lucy Westenra. After Lucy’s murder, her friends gather together and attempt to drive Dracula away and end his reign of bloody terror for good.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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