I also dislike how forced the romance in Coppola's Dracula is. Especially considering the character is essentially a rapist and our tragic "hero" is shown to laugh about feeding a baby to his brides. Unless he's changed his name to Soma, Dracula as a sympathetic hero just doesn't work imo. Which is why I like that Kouta Hirano skipped trying to make him sympathetic.
Horror of Dracula and Lugosi version are both good but very slowly paced.
Yeah it's like the very moment he goes from Gary Oldman to Gary Youngman (lol) the character does a COMPLETE 360, and becomes this dramatic and romantic figure, who even seems to show remorse while feeding Mina Harker his blood.
I think most modern audiences would find the 1931 Dracula boring. I saw it in a theater once during a sort of mini Halloween film festival and heard a child complain to their parents "You said it would be scary!"
Man yeah, that is real sad. people have no taste nowadays. Old horror movies were not exploitation slashers, or thrillers, they were just well, "scary stories" or rather, "monster stories". They were rarely ever actually scary. And when they were, they were scary because of suspense and atmosphere.
anyone watch Woman in Black? Sort of like that, although ill admit it relied on jump scares, which weren't really used back then.
Also, the Jesus Franco one with lee, which was faithful to the book to a point, but felt like they blew their budget on lee's count and the gothic castle setting, while everything else looked VERY 60's. or rather, 60's pretending to be Victorian. And the ending felt ridiculously rushed. I was left with some serious blueballs with that movie. I was getting ready for the epic chase to transylfania and all that, and in a few minutes, it's all over. They kill the count in his coffin without a fight.
My favorite Dracula movie?
I know, I'll pick an obscure one-
Malice Mizer's all silent Dracula Movie, Bara no Konrei ~Mayonaka ni Kawashita Yakusoku~
MALICE MIZER Bara No Konrei Part 1okay maybe not my favorite, but it was pretty memorable, if only for the music and atmosphere. (I mean, the whole thing is practically an extended PV for their Bara no Seido album...)
And I'd say Yu-Ki played a pretty good Count Dracula. Or as the movie calls him, "Earl of Dracula".