In 1992 director Francis Ford Coppola directed his own adaptation of

Bram Stoker's Dracula. Featuring an all-star cast that included Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves,

Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins, this promised to be one of the biggest and most faithful

screen adaptations of Dracula to date. But Coppola's version did take some of its own liberties.

It added an extra layer of eroticism and sensuality. Coppola was also insistent that he didn't

want to use any kind of contemporary visual effects and instead only used antiquated special

effect techniques from early cinema, including matting, rear projections and forced perspectives.

This gave the movie a unique, timeless quality, something that almost feels as if it could have

been made in the early 20th century. But it also felt as though it had borrowed elements of every

Dracula adaptation that had come before, the striking nightmarish visuals of Nosferatu,

the charismatic but terrifying central performance akin to Legosi or Lee and the sensuality

and romanticism of John Badams' 1979 film. The result was one of the most striking and successful

Dracula adaptations to date and one that has not been matched in the last 30 years.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the vampire and we discuss France's Ford

Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name

is Mike Munster and as ever I am your host. If you're tuning in for the first time,

then welcome. In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror

genre by looking at particular sub-genre's one series at a time. We are currently in the middle

of our eighth series exploring the evolution of the vampire movie and this is part eight.

This week's episode is sponsored by $20 Patreon subscriber John Kins and in this week's episode,

as that intro suggested, we are going to be exploring the last Dracula adaptation of the series.

This is France's Ford Coppola's movie from 1992. This will be a spoilerific discussion

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