![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() NOSFERATU (1922) - played by Max Schreck.And it's quite a list! Eliminating archival footage in documentaries which come from films I already own in their entirety, these are the Dracula appearances that lie coffined in my video vault: And this sudden Dracula surfeit has coaxed me into taking a look through my vault to determine just how many movies and telly programmes in my possession feature Count Dracula. All three of these I watched when I was a wee lad or else a teenager but never owned until now. despite his personal distaste for silver! A recent, sudden taste for Dracula has resulted in three new acquisitions to my hoary vault of three old, dimly-remembered Dracula movies I've now finally gotten around to grasping on DVD: the Jesus Franco "EL CONDE DRACULA" starring Christopher Lee, the Dan (DARK SHADOWS) Curtis TV version of DRACULA starring Jack Palance and the BBC-TV production of "COUNT DRACULA" starring Louis Jourdan. And perhaps most prolifically, the king of the vampires has certainly lurked amongst the silver screen for much of cinema's history. He's also been a protaganist in countless novels from Robert Lory's wonderful early 70's Dracula paperbacks to Fred Saberhagan's revisionist telling of Stoker's novel "THE DRACULA TAPES" to Kim Newman's superb "ANNO DRACULA". He's been a pez dispenser and a luscious comic book illustrated by the late great Gene Colan (above). Since Bram Stoker published his blockbuster novel in 1897, Count Dracula has been a permanent fixture in the world consciousness. ![]()
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