Does bram stokers Dracula meet the psychological needs to be classed as a good horror film? Critics say yes I say no. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and screenplay written by James v. Hart, Dracula is a fantasy movie about a vampire who comes to England and finds his lost true love then proceeds to wreak havoc on the foreign town. The movie, which has a 78% on rotten tomatoes and a 7.5/10 on Internet Movie DataBase or IMDB has also won 3 Oscars and 12 other movie awards in multiple other categories, including best horror film by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. The critics raved, “director Francis Ford Coppola wins endless vam-pyrrhic victories (Howe, 1992)” “Overblown in the best sense of the word, Francis Ford Coppola's vision of Bram Stoker's Dracula rescues the character from decades of campy interpretations” (Rotten tomatoes, n.d.). The
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Vlad then vandalizes the chapel and renounces God, in a fit of rage he stabs the chapel’s stone cross and drinks the blood that pours out of it. Vlad turns into a vampire and hundreds of years later travels to England where he finds mina, who he believes is his lost love Elisabeta. Mina eventually returns Vlad’s love and claims she remembers her past life. In the end of the movie Vlad turns mina into a vampire seconds before hunters burst into the room and kill him. In the same chapel where he lost his love hundreds of years earlier he dies, eventually being reunited with Elisabeta. Bram stoker’s Dracula is a bad thriller and a bad romance movie. I say this because at {INSERT TIME} they add suspense and so called thrills by withholding information. In the scene I’m referring to Mina approaches Lucy being attacked by Dracula in the garden, they withhold information by not showing Lucy or Dracula and only showing Mina and her shocked expression surrounded by mist and
Vlad then vandalizes the chapel and renounces God, in a fit of rage he stabs the chapel’s stone cross and drinks the blood that pours out of it. Vlad turns into a vampire and hundreds of years later travels to England where he finds mina, who he believes is his lost love Elisabeta. Mina eventually returns Vlad’s love and claims she remembers her past life. In the end of the movie Vlad turns mina into a vampire seconds before hunters burst into the room and kill him. In the same chapel where he lost his love hundreds of years earlier he dies, eventually being reunited with Elisabeta. Bram stoker’s Dracula is a bad thriller and a bad romance movie. I say this because at {INSERT TIME} they add suspense and so called thrills by withholding information. In the scene I’m referring to Mina approaches Lucy being attacked by Dracula in the garden, they withhold information by not showing Lucy or Dracula and only showing Mina and her shocked expression surrounded by mist and