Who is the best Dracula?

[The Toyroom]

Christopher Lee is the main vamp in my book

[Earth 2 Chris]

^ Lee is still my favorite too, but I can appreciate Langella's take.

I also liked Jack Palance's version, which I saw for the first time earlier this year. His Dracula was the first to be tied directly to Vlad, and have the reincarnated love storyline (which was borrowed from The Mummy, among other things). He played an almost animal-like Dracula. His actions came across more as a product of his nature than pure evil.

Lee continues to be the bad-arse, most evil Count.

Chris

[The Toyroom]

Lee continues to be the bad-arse, most evil Count.

And Peter Cushing is the best Van Helsing

[tllgn]

bela was the best,however a real favorite vampire for me was in the night stalker tv movie,i saw that as a kid and he scared the ----- out of me.he didnt say a word,but was chilling.

[mightyquinn]

Christopher Lee scares me the most, so he's getting my vote. Dooku should have been a vampire!!

[renegade]

Has anyone mentioned Michael Nourie in that short lived 70's TV show chiffhangers? Wish I knew how to get a copy of that short lived show.

[LadyZod]

Do "Fabricated-Americans" count?

Cause no Dracula archtype is better than Greg The Bunny's Count Blah!

[Megotu]

Bob Denver as Gilligan the Vampire in his dream sequence.....I LIVED to see that episode as a rugrat...

[JediJaida]

What about The Count from Sesame Street? I always thought that he had a hidden dark side somewhere, and he spooked me as a kid.

I remember asking my sister, "If he's a vampire, how come he's out during the day?"

She said, "He's a Muppet vampire, he doesn't go poof on account of he's made of foam." or something to that extent.

[PNGwynne]

Is Loius Jourdan's BBC version available? I remember liking him alot--both charming/urbane & evil. Kinf of a Lee-Lugosi blend. And the script was closer to Stoker.


Langella's not bad, but the ending of that film--yechh.

I'd have to say that I don't like my Drac too sympathetic, but I did enjoy the total package of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Dracula aside, I liked the takes on Baron Meister & Count Yorga...

[enyawd72]

Frank Langella all the way. I loved the scene of him climbing face first down the wall, and when confronted with a cross, he grabbed it and it burst into flames.

This Dracula was badass!

[JediJaida]

Well, I checked DVDReview, and it is available.

Bad news: It has three minutes of ads before the opening credits that can't be fast forwarded through or skipped and it has no Extra features at all.

Otherwise, it has a good review.

Dunno if I want it or not, but maybe they'll show it again on PBS.

[Gorn Captain]

Lee did a version that is fairly book accurate, old man at the beginning, even includes the scene of walking up the castle walls. I think it's called "Count Dracula", it's European, it's been years since I saw it. As I recall, it was good, not great.

Yeah, a film that's mostly forgotten, but especially the look of Dracula was very "book accurate"....

[Earth 2 Chris]

^ That was at Wal-Mart recently. I should have bought it. But I heard it was a mixed bag. But I should have, just for another Lee/Dracula movie, especially with a different spin!

Is Loius Jourdan's BBC version available? I remember liking him alot--both charming/urbane & evil. Kinf of a Lee-Lugosi blend. And the script was closer to Stoker.

I'm real interested to see this. I've read it's one of the better interpretations, and before Bram Stoker's Dracula, one of the more faithful adaptations, as far as following the scenes and characters in the book.

Chris

[Orion]

/\/\ Haven't seen that version in many years, but I remember really enjoying it in my youth. Jourdan can certainly act, and the rest of the cast did a good job as well. Version is very faithful to Bram Stoker's original vision.