VAMPIRES: Pt 7 - Dracula (1979) & Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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This week Mike is joined by Telegraph critic Tim Robey to discuss two Dracula adaptations from 1979…John Badham’s DRACULA and Werner Herzog’s NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE.

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0:00.0	Throughout the 1970s filmmakers around the world were creating
0:29.8	interesting, innovative and original vampire movies. In the US, bold new spins on the genre
0:36.3	like Ganger and Hesse, let's get Jessica to death and Martin were pushing the boundaries
0:41.6	of what vampire movies could look and feel like. While over in Europe, films like Daughters
0:47.4	of Darkness and the Blood-Spattered Bride were straddling both Vampire Horror and Arthouse.
0:54.6	In 1979, Bram Stoker's Dracula novel once again returned to the big screen. In Hollywood,
1:02.2	Universal Pictures resurrected their original monster, this time played by Frank Langella in a movie
1:08.6	filled with glossy high-end studio visuals. Meanwhile, over in Europe, a filmmaker from the new
1:15.6	German cinema movement called Werner Herzog remade Nosferatu but lent his own unique chilling
1:23.1	and bleak visuals to create an altogether different and unsettling experience. These two
1:29.8	very different adaptations in 1979 once again proved how varied and how enduringly popular
1:37.7	Bram Stoker's Dracula continued to be. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of
1:47.0	the Vampire movie, and we discuss John Badam's Dracula and Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampire.
2:01.2	Welcome back to the evolution of horror, my name is Mike Munter and as ever I am your host.
2:06.6	If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome in this podcast we explore and dissect
2:11.1	the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jumeras one series
2:16.5	at a time. We are currently in the middle of our eighth season exploring the evolution of the
2:22.2	Vampire movie and this is part seven. And in this week's episode, as that intro suggested,
2:28.4	we are going to be discussing two Dracula adaptations from 1979. John Badam's Dracula starring Frank
2:36.0	Langella and Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampire starring Klaus Kinski. Both of these discussions
2:44.9	will be spoilerific so please try and give these movies a watch before listening to our discussion.
2:50.5	They are both really fun and really interesting movies. So let's get straight into it. I sat down
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