Bram Stoker’s Dracula review – Gary Oldman is Pierrot from hell in blood-red 90s take

5 October 2022 · The Guardian

Peter Bradshaw

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Peter Bradshaw revisits Coppola’s Dracula for its thirtieth-anniversary cinema revival. He praises Gary Oldman’s anguished Count and the film’s operatic energy, finding an extravagantly theatrical mixture of silent-cinema imagery, melodrama and horror.

Published 5 October 2022 for the film’s thirtieth-anniversary revival. This is a review of Coppola’s 1992 film, not a new adaptation. The retained Sony artwork depicts that film.

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Gary Oldman as Dracula in promotional artwork for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). © 1992 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. — Gary Oldman as Dracula in promotional artwork for Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).© 1992 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.