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Dracula
Dec 24, 2018 8:27:49 GMT -5
Post by MS on Dec 24, 2018 8:27:49 GMT -5
Dracula in the upcoming Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss series will be played by Claes Bang.
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Dracula
Nov 17, 2019 0:41:45 GMT -5
Post by MS on Nov 17, 2019 0:41:45 GMT -5
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Post by MS on Feb 7, 2020 9:29:32 GMT -5
Count Dracula (1977): www.youtube.com/watch?v=u36VjXirmlYThis is the 1977 BBC adaptation of Count Dracula. In a curious fact for Doctor Who fans, this preempted a vampire story of Doctor Who due to the possibility of similarities with it. This vampire story will eventually be made into the 1980 story State of Decay. Not bad adaptation of Count Dracula with Louis Jourdan as the Count and this adaption is quite stylish.
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Dracula
Nov 1, 2020 13:01:22 GMT -5
Post by MS on Nov 1, 2020 13:01:22 GMT -5
2020 series
The Rules of the Beast: Series opener. The first episode of the Dracula series by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Terrifying opener especially towards the end when nuns gets killed. Further shocking on how this ends on a cliffhanger.
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Dracula
Nov 25, 2020 2:26:56 GMT -5
Post by MS on Nov 25, 2020 2:26:56 GMT -5
2020 series
Blood Vessel: Middle episode. This does not immediately go into the cliffhanger to the previous episode. Steven Moffat did the same in Doctor Who: The Witch's Familiar which concluded the previous episode The Magician's Apprentice. Dracula is a passenger on the ship the Demeter. I see what Moffat and Mark Gatiss did there as vessel is a also a word for ship and how much Dracula craves blood. Playing Dr Sharma is Sacha Dhawan. This came on January 2 2020 and the previous day Dhawan was in Doctor Who: Spyfall Part One in which his character O was revealed to be the Master. Incidentally the said The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar featured Dhawan's predecessor as the Master, Michelle Gomez. Blood Vessel is not the first time that Dhawan had performed in a narrative written by Gatiss as he was in the Sherlock season 4 opener The Six Thatchers and before that played first Doctor Who director Waris Hussein in An Adventure in Space and Time with Moffat as executive producer. Blood Vessel has a character named Dorabella played by Lily Dodsworth-Evans. Undoubtedly it was Gatiss who named this character as he had used that name before in his Doctor Who episode Victory of the Daleks with Moffat as showrunner, the unseen woman that has Bracewell's love. I was surprised to find playing the Duchess Valeria is Catherine Schell. According to IMDb prior to this she had retired from acting in 1996. Intriguing that Dracula has a conversation with Sister Agatha and cuts to and fro of events of the ship. Enthralling as it sets up Dracula's attack on his fellow passengers and he sure got a surprise at the end.
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Dracula
Dec 8, 2020 12:56:59 GMT -5
Post by MS on Dec 8, 2020 12:56:59 GMT -5
2020 series
The Dark Compass: Finale. The series had started in 1897. Now it jumps 123 years to this year 2020 as that is how long Dracula was in the water after the Demeter before getting out of it. Having played Agatha in the previous two episodes and briefly in this one, Dolly Wells also plays her descendant Zoe Van Helsing, having made her first appearance as Zoe at the end of the previous episode Blood Vessel. As well as Agatha, Dolly Wells is very impressive as Zoe However Agatha still makes an impact here with what she was given here. As well as co-writing this episode, Mark Gatiss, in his acting capacity turns up here Frank Renfield and for this version of Renfield, he is Dracula's lawyer! Horrifying Lucy still being conscious in her body which appeared to be dead as she got cremated at her funeral and what she became afterwards! Enthralling climax when Zoe exposes Dracula to sunlight only for him not to burn up as the legends say.
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Dracula
Sept 16, 2021 7:05:24 GMT -5
Post by MS on Sept 16, 2021 7:05:24 GMT -5
Son of Dracula (1974): Released in 1974, Son of Dracula features Ringo Starr and this mixes in with another legend as he plays Merlin. Son of Dracula is also a musical. Playing the said son of Dracula is Harry Nilsson as Count Downe. Very silly and very unsatisfying. Both the plot and the music have failed to delivered on its purpose.
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Dracula
Nov 20, 2021 10:39:14 GMT -5
Post by MS on Nov 20, 2021 10:39:14 GMT -5
The second episode of The Outlaws (2021-present) marked the first appearance in the series by Claes Bang.
The Outlaws already has in its principal cast Dolly Wells who first appeared in the series in the previous episode, the series opener and she and Bang had worked together in the 2020 series of Dracula in which Bang was the infamous vampire.
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Dracula
Aug 27, 2022 0:24:40 GMT -5
Post by MS on Aug 27, 2022 0:24:40 GMT -5
Dracula (1974): This version of Dracula released of 1974 starred Jack Palance as the famed vampire. Overall not a bad telling of the Dracula story and Palance is quite a choice to play him which is a description was the best I could come up with his performance.
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Post by MS on Oct 7, 2022 5:05:01 GMT -5
The Invitation (2022): Released in 2022, The Invitation is inspired by the novel Dracula. While this was inspired by Dracula, I however felt uninspired by the viewing of this movie. The Invitation is subtle with its connection to Dracula, a connection that took a long while to make. By the time this connection is made I really didn't feel a thing for it. The pace of this movie did not feel satisfying and the ending did not feel solid with me.
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Dracula
Oct 15, 2022 12:06:52 GMT -5
Post by MS on Oct 15, 2022 12:06:52 GMT -5
Dracula Reborn: Released in 2012, this version of Dracula is set in contemporary times. This stars Jonathan Landis as the protagonist Jonathan Harker who had a great life when he met the monster in question. Seeing this on Youtube the description that it got was amusement but frankly there was nothing about this movie to laugh about. I wouldn't say it is bad but it is not spectacularly good either. With the way this movie was heading I probably shouldn't be surprised on how it ended.
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