The Horror Fantasy Film ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ Re-Released On Its 30th Anniversary

If you live in the U.K., then your life just got a little better or maybe scarier, depending on where you stand when it comes to Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In honor of the film’s 30th anniversary, this modern adaptation of the classic Gothic novel was re-released as a limited-edition theatrical event in select theatres across England for one week only. The screening took place on October 20, 2022, and will feature the original film. Dracula was a 1992 American Gothic horror movie. It stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. in the film the count, Dracula, is a malevolent creature who lives in Castle Dracula, Romania. The movie was released on November 13, 1992. The movie’s budget was $40 million and it grossed $215.9 million at the box office as a result of its release.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Cast

• Gary Oldman as Count Dracula. 
• Winona Ryder as Mina Harker. 
• Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing. 
• Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker.
• Richard E. Grant as Dr. Jack Seward.
• Cary Elwes as Lord Arthur Holmwood.
• Billy Campbell as Quincey P. Morris.
• Sadie Frost as Lucy Westenra.
• Tom Waits as R. M. Renfield.
• Monica Bellucci as Dracula’s Bride.
• Michaela Bercu as Dracula’s Bride.
• Florina Kendrick as Dracula’s Bride.
• Jay Robinson as Mr. Hawkins.

Plot:

In this movie, Jonathan Harker gets kidnapped by Count Dracula on his way to Transylvania for a real estate deal on Carfax Abbey in London. Mina Murray, with Professor Abraham Van Helsing, gets worried and goes to Carfax Abbey to find him and there she encounters a vampire who bites her. She starts feeling weird so Van Helsing takes her home with him. Mina starts getting weird. She gets sick, sees a face in a window, and later she talks to her father who’s still alive from her childhood. Mina goes to see an old gypsy woman who tells her that the vampire is trying to kill her brother and asks Mina to go and tell him about Dracula. Mina’s brother asks for the help of Van Helsing but he refuses to help to say that because the vampires are obeying the master (Dracula) then his help won’t be needed. Mina goes back with Van Helsing and he tells Mina that keeping quiet won’t do any good since Dracula has no way of knowing if they’re still alive or not since they’re locked in their room. 

Who is the director of the film:

Francis Ford Coppola was an American director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for directing classics including The Godfather Part II (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979). Coppola was born on April 7, 1939, in New York City.

What is interesting about the movie?

This 1992 movie was a version of the classic Dracula story by Bram Stoker and featured Gary Oldman as Dracula. This flick was the second adaptation of Dracula and was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film follows Stoker’s original story more closely than any other Dracula film. This is one of many Francis Ford Coppola films that have become classics.