Bram Stoker's Dracula

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Star(s): Winona Ryder, Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves
Date: 1992
Themes: Vampires and love

Review:

As the title suggests the film is about Dracula (Oldman) who goes in search of his true love who has been reincarnated (Ryder). Unfortunately for Dracula his true love is betrothed to someone else (Reeves) so he invites him to his castle in order to get him out of the way. Dracula begins to woe his past love and succeeds as she too falls in love with him.

Overtime she marries her fiancee to Dracula's despair but because of her love for the vampire she asks to be turned into a vampire too which Dracula allows grudgingly.Her husband realises something is wrong and with the help of some friends and a doctor/vampire slayer (Hopkins) they go in searchof Dracula. Finally, they find him and hurt him but his love kills him mercifully to stop the pain and she is no longer a vampire.

This film is very emotionally depressing and everytime I think of I almost want to burst into tears. The ending is very dramatic and tear-jerking that it takes a very tough-hearted soul not to shed a tear during the credit's themetune.This film gives a different view of vampires - they are not as puny as those in Interview With A Vampire and not quite so evil and heartless as those in the British film Lifeforce.

Links:
Bram Stoker's Novel
Dracula Fan Page