Dracula

If The Nightmare Before Christmas hadn't come out the following year, this is the movie that would have driven Hot Topic sales for the rest of the '90s. Undeniably stylish, but oh my laws is this movie silly.

Not bat. Not bat at all.

The performances are really bad, I mean reallllly bad. Keanu, of course, is the stand out as Harker. Watching him slip in and out of an English accent was sad and hilarious at the same time. Even Tom Waits was awful and he's never awful so I don't know what the hell was going on. Some odd directing choices and some poor writing keep this from being great, it looks beautiful but it was lacking. Also, nice job making Dracula look exactly like the emperor from Star Wars, real creative!

Coppola shows brilliant craftmanship and uses every bit of his mise-en-scène to create an eerie, erotic and strangely beautiful atmosphere, reflecting the love between Dracula and his beloved Elisabeta. What an interesting and complex love story. Twilight fans, this is true horror love! Also, this film is yet another proof of Keanu Reeves' poor, poor acting skills.

Keanu Reeves' accent and squirting nipple are possibly the highlights of this, and help set an expectation for the rest of the film. I dunno if it is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but I think it helps to approach it on the assumption that it is. It does look splendid, however, and it's the fact that everything is so unsubtle that makes it so watchable. I can't recall the novel very well, but there's enough of it here to remind me of it...perhaps a fully accurate version would be a bit dry?