Dracula (1979)
Directed by John Badham
In 1913, charming, seductive, and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride.
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His strong eye for shadows and love for a more patient pacing help build suspense and make even the most potentially campy concepts—like a Tyrannosaur-velociraptor hybrid lowering itself down from the roof above a young girl’s bedroom window, a la John Badham’s Dracula —have a delicious menace.
The character of Buckaroo started as a sprig of an idea in the mind of W.D. Richter, who found a screenwriting hot hand in the late 1970s with reinventions of “Dracula” and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” as well as the Robert Redford prison drama “Brubaker.”
Since 1979, we’ve seen from other studios 1992’s “Dracula” from Bram Stoker with Gary Oldman, 2000’s “Dracula 2000” from Wes Craven with Gerard Butler and 2012’s “Dracula 3D” from Dario Argento with Thomas Kretschmann.
It’s largely pointless to compare Horror of Dracula with the old Universal Dracula.
As such, however, Terence Fisher�s 1958 Horror of Dracula stands as the most faithful screen adaptation of Stoker�s novel to date, while Murnau�s classic Nosferatu remains unchallenged as the very best.