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* Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ) – attempt at filming the story quite close to Stoker's novel, but merging the medieval story of Vlad Tepes ; starring Gary Oldman as Dracula.
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Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Illustration from The Dark Blue by D. H. Friston, 1872
He is known for his roles as Westley in the cult classic The Princess Bride, Arthur Holmwood in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and for his role as Dr. Lawrence Gordon in Saw.
Elwes also appeared in such films as Francis Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Crush, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Twister, Liar Liar, Cradle Will Rock, The Cat's Meow and Kiss the Girls.
There are three types of epistolary novels: monologic ( giving the letters of only one character, like Letters of a Portuguese Nun ), dialogic ( giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Letters of Fanni Butlerd ( 1757 ), and polylogic ( with three or more letter-writing characters, such as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ).
* Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ) uses not only letters and diaries, but also dictation cylinders and newspaper accounts.
In 1992, Coppola directed and produced Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Adapted from Bram Stoker's novel, it was intended to be more faithful to the book than previous film adaptations.
* Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is told in the form of numerous documents, including journals and newspaper articles.
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Le Fanu's short story collection In a Glass Darkly ( 1872 ) includes the superlative vampire tale Carmilla, which provided fresh blood for that particular strand of the Gothic and influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).
The first vampire-themed movie was made during this time: F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu ( 1922 ), an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).
* In Bram Stoker's Dracula, several characters make phrenological observations in describing other characters, as does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.
In the English-speaking world, Vlad is best known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula ; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law.
This marked the first in a series of collaborations between Waits and Coppola, with Waits appearing in cameos in Coppola's movies The Outsiders ( 1983 ), Rumble Fish ( 1983 ), and The Cotton Club ( 1984 ), and a major role in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
1992 also saw Waits featuring in Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, as the possessed lunatic Renfield.
Transylvania is often associated with vampires ( chiefly due to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and its film adaptations ) and the horror genre in general, while the region is also known for the scenic beauty of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history.
However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula that is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and which provided the basis of modern vampire fiction.
However, it is also a playful take on an old archetype, the vampire ( the reader is even treated to Neville ’ s reading and put-down of Bram Stoker's Dracula ).
Of course, the difference lies in order of power — while many D & D adventures focus on allowing a band of heroes to prevail over a Dark Lord ( much as in the spirit of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula ), no such victory over the Dark Powers is conceivable.
This is the case in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Poncy bugger owes me £ 11, for one thing ," because Dracula tossed Spike's signed copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula in a fire in 1898.
Later influential works include the penny dreadful Varney the Vampire ( 1847 ); Sheridan Le Fanu's tale of a lesbian vampire, Carmilla ( 1872 ) and the masterpiece of the genre: Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).
One of its lines Denn die Toten reiten schnell (" For the dead ride fast ") was to be quoted in Bram Stoker's classic Dracula.
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Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker.
In the late 19th century, Bram Stoker released one of the most widely recognized and successful novels in the epistolary form to date, Dracula.
The most famous Gothic villain ever, Count Dracula was created by Bram Stoker in his novel Dracula ( 1897 ).
The Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror novel Dracula.
* 1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
King acknowledges the influence of Bram Stoker, particularly on his novel Salem's Lot, which he envisioned as a retelling of Dracula.
This story was to greatly influence Bram Stoker in the writing of Dracula.
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* Boy's Life ( 1991 )-Winner of the 1991 Bram Stoker Award and the 1992 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
* 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Tom McCarthy, David Stone
The Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman — named after Anno Dracula ( 1992 ), the series ' first novel — is a work of fantasy depicting an alternate history in which the heroes of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula fail to stop Count Dracula's conquest of Great Britain, resulting in a world where vampires are common and increasingly dominant in society.
First published in October 1992, Anno Dracula has won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award, the Lord Ruthven Assembly's Fiction Award, and the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel, and was short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
Of the film's cast, two actors had previously appeared in vampire movies: Udo Kier played Count Dracula in Blood for Dracula ( 1974 ) as well appearing in Blade ( 1998 ) as Dragonetti and Cary Elwes played Arthur Holmwood in Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ).
His success with this series was such that he was hired to write the novelization of the 1992 movie Bram Stoker's Dracula.
* Bram Stoker's Dracula ( with James V. Hart ), ( Signet / New American Library Nov. 1992 ); Novelization of the Francis Ford Coppola film.
* Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ) ( directed by Francis Ford Coppola )
* Anthony Hopkins in Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 )
Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula suggests that Renfield ( portrayed by Tom Waits ) was Harker's predecessor as Count Dracula's agent in London ; it is implied that this is the reason for his present madness.
He then played a vampire hunter in Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
For example Halloween ( 1978 ), Ghostbusters ( 1984 ), Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ), Armageddon ( 1998 ), and The Rock ( 1996 ).
Mina was portrayed by American actress Winona Ryder in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola film adaptation of the book, in which she is portrayed as the reincarnation of Dracula's centuries-dead wife, Elisabeta.
* 5 jaar wanorde ( 5 years of mayhem ) is a two-part documentary about Urban Dance Squad by director Bram van Splunteren for VPRO's Onrust, originally broadcast in 1992.
* Billy Campbell in Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 )
The Mega-CD port of Silpheed features polygon ships over a pre-rendered video background ; this method is also seen in other video game titles, such as Namco's StarBlade in 1991, Sony Imagesoft's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992, and Micronet's A / X-101 in 1994 for the Sega CD.
He oversaw the in-camera visual effects for his father's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula.
* Dracula: At one point, Rebecca says, " Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman ... they're vampires ", to which Angel replies, " I thought Frank Langella was the only performance I believed ..." They refer to three actors who have played Dracula, Lugosi in Dracula in 1931, Langella in 1979's Dracula and Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992.
Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula recreates several scenes from Black Sunday nearly exactly as they were filmed, in homage to Bava's film.
In Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula, the brides were played by Monica Bellucci, Michaela Bercu and Florina Kendrick.
The theatrical poster for Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ).
* In the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ), Count Dracula calls his wolf pet by the names strigoi and moroi.
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