Dracula? Or a bit like it?

[di1411]

Yes, I know it was previewed as being heavily 'updated', but I have a feeling that Jonathan Harker survived in the original? Isn't this one hell of a twist from the original? (if you saw it, you'll know what I mean)

[chaotica]

Yes he survives in all the versions except this one..which was appalling tv and not a patch on the the beebs 77 version..This one was a cross between the Gary Oldman movie and some crap beeb drama .Wish I hadnt sat through it now .very disappointed.

[andy-hughes]

I quite enjoyed it, but I found the 're-arrangement' of the plot a little hard to deal with. I'm not sorry I watched it - Mark Warren played the part very well, but i wouldn't need to see it again in a hurry.

[China Doll]

Hi DI,

I was just coming to post on this while I chew on my sandwich here...

I have to say that I found this version of Dracula the biggest pile of pish I have ever had the misfortune to sit through. I have no problems with people taking a bit of creative license as long as it lives up to or is better than the original (the latter is very rare). What I watched last night was the destruction of one of the worlds greatest love stories, the dumbing down of the tale of the unknown, the murdering of any form of passion in the characters and the destruction of desire.

I'm going to have to disagree with Andy and say that Mark Warren was a disgrace as Dracula, there was no substance to him. Dracula is a deeply mysterious, magnetic character. Even if they played down the sexual side and the love story there was nothing deeper than a puddle about this character. I was not engrossed in his layers and I felt nothing but indifference.

Mena was a simpering, wet lettuce. There was nothing to find in her character or performance.

All in all I have absolutely nothing good to say about this version. I sat through it hoping that at some point it would come in to it's own. It never did. A truely shocking and disatrous version.

< Comes down off soap box some what cleansed. Thanks people for listening >

[jamesy boy]

I thought it was pretty well acted, but was rushed...they should have stuck to the book more, and getting rid of Renfield but making Van Helsing a simliar character was a big mistake.
And what was that '24' style shaky camera about?

[fat rascal]

too true Chaotica, the bbc '77 one was excellent... louis jordan(?).was superb as the count... and it kept faithfullt to the book... you just can't go off killing harker.