One of those movies where the trailer is much better than the movie. The best of the movie's humor is there, you have to trudge through 90+ minutes to see all the imaginative stuff, the gold amidst the dross of endless John Wickian violence with a double dollop of Grand Guignol. Somehow, for what reason this movie goer could not fathom, where the new thing a few years ago was working water torture into scene and after scene Renfield decides (perhaps because it is soccer season) that kicking people heads off is the top of the tree special effect we have all been waiting for. Graphically, for, I guess, comic effect. Along with tearing arms off living humans, for, well, comic effect. Not all bad. Not all grotesque. As I said all the good parts can be watched in the trailer. Liked the actor playing Renfield. Liked the other actors. Can't wait for the puff pieces on how many hours the actors had to sit to be made up to look suitably ghastly.
Which they do.
For you youngsters out there, find Bram Stoker's Dracula. Directed by Coppola pere and starring Gary Oldham, with a very young Keanu Reeves, and the perfect Renfield: Tom Waites.
Which they do.
For you youngsters out there, find Bram Stoker's Dracula. Directed by Coppola pere and starring Gary Oldham, with a very young Keanu Reeves, and the perfect Renfield: Tom Waites.