Bram Stoker's Dracula (30th Anniversary Steelbook) [4K UHD] [Region Free] [Blu-ray]

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So it should come as little surprise that, in the film, the sexually available Lucy is Count Dracula’s (Gary Oldman) first victim. All of this allows Coppola to bring something new and delightfully decadent to the material, akin to the bottle of absinthe Dracula and Mina share, even if Bram Stoker’s Dracula, like the Stoker novel, ultimately reconciles itself with the status quo. One of the most high-profile releases in the fall of 1992 was Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of “Dracula,” starring Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves. With rose-tinted familiarity, the supporting performances all feel quaintly charming thirty years on - eminently forgivable even - but there's no denying the hilarity of that damn accent. Seven years on, and fans of the film should already be very familiar with it, but if not, then you're in for a real treat, with - much like the video - the production itself providing the nuances required to bring this engaging, evocative track to life.

Again it’s visually arresting and I think for all of the stumbles Coppola makes, he makes up for it with two or three great decisions. But when Winona Ryder, of all people (she's one of the major reasons why The Godfather Part III ended up so flawed - her last-minute departure seeing understudy, Coppola's own daughter and now celebrated director in her own right Sofia Coppola, brought in to replace her, with fatal results), brought a Dracula script to his attention, Coppola was back! I don’t think they anticipated my dedication to living up to my end of the bargain as I dutifully read the book while at summer camp that year and loved it. Detail is excellent, displaying no signs of excessive DNR application, no unruly waxiness or softness, and a fine layer of suitably filmic grain pervades, lending texture to the entire piece.In an interview with Fangoria after the film’s release, Winona Ryder, who played one of the main leads in the film, Mina Harker, presented Coppola with the screenplay written by James V. The sets are grand opera run riot - Gothic extravaganza intercut with the Victorian London of gaslights and fogbound streets, rogues in top hats and bad girls in bustier.

Aladdin” would be winning Academy Awards in other categories, and I can’t imagine many were hoping to make a Steven Seagal action movie like “Under Siege” an Oscar winner.Meanwhile, Mina’s journey finds her developing many of the same erotic tendencies as Lucy under Dracula’s tutelage, the ramp up in her seductiveness once again mirrored in the costumes that she wears. With a splashy end-of-the-year release, solid box office and positive reviews from most of the nation’s film critics, it was clear awards were just around the corner; the question was if the film would only be recognized in technical categories or if it could also place in top categories like acting, directing and picture. Similarly, in Sound Effects Editing, the other two nominees “Aladdin” and “Under Siege” didn’t pose much of a threat. To celebrate this film’s 30th Anniversary, Sony curses physical media fanatics with a new two-disc 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray SteelBook release.

But by forcing Dracula into this mold of being a misunderstood romantic, it deadens the seriousness and horror of his atrocities and is incongruous with the rest of the film. The movie also depicted the scene from the book where Jonathan Harker was dominated by three vampire women, a concept that was unheard of in the late 1800s. With an all-star cast, the film may not be the definitive adaptation, but it’s one hell of a piece of 90s horror cinema. Being an R-rated film, I wasn’t immediately allowed to see it so my parents bought me off with the condition that if I read the book then I could see the new movie.As anybody familiar with the fictional but likely all-too-close-to-the-truth Paramount+ TV Show, The Offer, will probably know too well, the decade of making cinema-defining classics like Apocalypse Now and The Godfather Part I and Part II was not a particularly forgiving one for Coppola. Coppola directs with all the stops out, and the actors perform as if afraid they will not be audible in the other theaters of the multiplex. Nevertheless, the ways in which Bram Stoker’s Dracula chooses to implement these aspects are very different. In 1992, a Dracula movie was released that has been the source of both positive and negative reviews. using a Wide Colour Gamut (WCG), High Dynamic Range (HDR10 and Dolby Vision), and is encoded using the HEVC (H.