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Christopher Lee is looking very 1970s cool in this documentary portrait of the world's favorite vampire. Himself a great interpreter of the role, Lee performs multiple duties here: he narrates, appears in clips from Hammer films and Jess Franco's Count Dracula, and plays evil tyrant Vlad the Impaler in new footage. The rest of the film is a cobbled-together look at origins of Dracula, both historical (the life of bloody Vlad is recounted) and literary. The latter includes a brief account of Bram Stoker's source novel, plus a sidebar for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In fact, along with some good Transylvania footage and folklor
Christopher Lee is looking very 1970s cool in this documentary portrait of the world's favorite vampire. Himself a great interpreter of the role, Lee performs multiple duties here: he narrates, appears in clips from Hammer films and Jess Franco's Count Dracula, and plays evil tyrant Vlad the Impaler in new footage. The rest of the film is a cobbled-together look at origins of Dracula, both historical (the life of bloody Vlad is recounted) and literary. The latter includes a brief account of Bram Stoker's source novel, plus a sidebar for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In fact, along with some good Transylvania footage and folklore, there are many peculiar sidebars, including a dramatization of a modern blood-drinker. It's all pretty slapdash, but undeniably a useful introduction for people unaware of the Dracula family tree. Plus, you get to see how truly hideous-looking a vampire bat really is. No wonder they've been demonized. --Robert Horton
The true story of the real Dracula, filmed in Transylvania. Yes, there really was a Dracula. The legend of Count Dracula, the vampire who slept in a coffin by day and sunk his teeth into pretty, young necks by night, is based on a real person. He was responsible for torturing and killing at least 100,000 people, usually by impaling his victims on sharp spikes. Christopher Lee appears in a role he was famous for--Count Dracula--as he tells the story that weaves historical fact, movie history and literary characters together into one sinister theme.
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Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Release date: 19 July 1999
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0014381554724 UPC: 014381554724
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