A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.
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- TriviaBased on Raymond McNally and Radu Florescu 's book of the same name, which explores the historical Vlad the Impaler and his influence on the making of Bram Stoker's "Dracula." The film also makes a detour to cover information from Florescu's follow-up book "In Search of Frankenstein." While not mentioned by name, the alchemist referenced who probably inspired Mary Shelley to write "Frankenstein" was the notorious Konrad Dippel. Just as Vlad Tepes has now become essential to the vampire myth, Florescu's research has resulted in Dippel being incorporated into Frankenstein mythology in popular culture.
- SoundtracksMusic for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Composed by Béla Bartók
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Traces the Myths, Legends and Traditions of the Vampire Known as Dracula
This documentary essentially traces some of the myths relating to vampires back to their original Romanian sources and incorporates the legends related to the 15th century Transylvanian warlord Vlad the Impaler-also known as Vlad Dracula. The documentary then details how the writer Bram Stoker used these myths, legends and traditions to come up with the notorious vampire known as Count Dracula in his best-selling novel in 1897. From there it was used in silent films and eventually brought to modern films beginning with the 1931 film "Dracula." And for added effect the documentary is annotated by one of the most popular actors to play the part-Christopher Lee. Now as far as this documentary is concerned, while I liked having Christopher Lee as the annotator and I appreciated some of the clips from his movies, I would have preferred some of the more horrific scenes from these movies rather than the rather lifeless ones presented. Likewise, there have been a number of other movies related to vampires since this documentary was produced which has left much of the analysis here seem somewhat obsolete or out-of-date. Regardless, this documentary didn't really show me anything I didn't already know and for that reason I have rated it accordingly.
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- Uriah43
- Oct 11, 2020
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- La leyenda de Drácula
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- Bran, Romania(Castle of Vlad Tepes)
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- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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