Coppola directs with all the stops out, and the actors perform as if afraid they will not be audible in the other theaters of the multiplex. The second commentary track stitches together comments from Coppola, visual effects director Roman Coppola, and makeup supervisor Greg Cannom to give a comprehensive account of the film’s more technical aspects. Lavish and luxurious, Coppola's magnificent ode to Bram Stoker's epistolary novel is the auteur's last great feature, a flawed but fabulous fable that puts the heart back into this ancient icon, giving audiences a reason to actually care about the fact that everybody seems to want to shove a stake in it.

Meanwhile, Mina’s journey finds her developing many of the same erotic tendencies as Lucy under Dracula’s tutelage, the ramp up in her seductiveness once again mirrored in the costumes that she wears.So it should come as little surprise that, in the film, the sexually available Lucy is Count Dracula’s (Gary Oldman) first victim.

Even the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi was not totally accurate to the story, and cherry-picked around the character’s mythos. The film was nominated at BAFTA in four categories: Costume Design, Make Up Artist, Production Design, and Special Effects.The Ultra HD Blu-ray delivers a fabulous native 4K presentation, replete with lashings of filmic grain and texture, and adding in Dolby Vision HDR to this reissue for good measure, providing the cherry on an already delectable cake. Tod Browning’s famous 1931 film starring Bela Lugosi wasn’t recognized come Oscar time; the same goes for films like “Horror of Dracula” from 1958 starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and “Dracula” from 1979 starring Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier. As we enter the spooky season, big fans of all that go bump in the night take time to reflect on scares of the past and how they have aged over the years. It was an unusual story-telling aid at the time, but it replicated Stoker’s novel, like a series of journal entries.

I actually think if they shifted the casting a little and let Cary Elwes play Harker with Richard E. Since 2001, we've brought you uncompromising, candid takes on the world of film, music, television, video games, theater, and more. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is thrilled to announce that director Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar-winning classic will be available to own on 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray in a Limited Edition Steelbook with brand-new extras on 10th October, exclusively from Zavvi.Sony's 4K re-release of Bram Stoker's Dracula is a bit of a slim excuse of a "30th Anniversary" celebration which those who already picked this up may find precious little reason to double-dip on, but the addition of Dolby Vision and a couple of new extras to an already near-perfect package - 4K video, Atmos audio and extras - certainly leave this the definitive version to own for those who don't already.

Dracula was shot with all manner of cinematic techniques as already detailed, including rear projection, multiple exposures, miniature effects, compositing images with a forced perspective, matte paintings, front projection and reverse motion. Black levels are off-the-charts fabulous, the miniatures and elaborate sets all look stunning, and the thirty-year-old classic has simple never looked any better. Detail is excellent, displaying no signs of excessive DNR application, no unruly waxiness or softness, and a fine layer of suitably filmic grain pervades, lending texture to the entire piece. Dialogue remains clear and coherent, and well prioritised, and that score, that score haunts the proceedings, with plenty of literal thunder to engage the LFE.

Take a trip back to the Academy Awards ceremonies of the recent past with Gold Derby’s Oscars Playback series. However, the movie keeps us entranced with its visually stunning depiction where every corner of the screen is a triumph. The script itself is a triumph for the character considering that it stays the truest to Stoker’s 1897 novel. We definitely see that in a few scenes, both implied and explicit where you can feel the sexual tension along with the “will they, won’t they” energy. Toys” would have been a wild choice here given the bad reviews and box office for the Barry Levinson fantasy film, but any of the other three period films nominated — “Enchanted April,” “Howards End” and “Malcolm X” — would have been shoo-ins to take the gold trophy.