BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA
Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins,
Cary Elwes, Keanu Reeves
Columbia Pictures; Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Rated R; 127 minutes; 1992
Francis Ford Coppola returns to Bram Stoker’s classic novel first published in 1897, for this elegant, erotic retelling of the Dracula legend. By emphasizing the human emotions behind the most terrifying aspects of Stoker’s mythic horror story, Coppola casts intriguing new light on one of the Victorian ages’ darkest novels.