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Marco Castellini
•A young real estate agent, Jonathan Harker, is sent to Transylvania to handle an important deal with a local nobleman, Count Dracula, who wishes to purchase a large plot of land in London. After meeting the unsettling character, who is none other than a terrible vampire, the young man is ensnared by a group of vampiresses, followers of the count, who attack him, feeding on his blood and leaving him too weak to escape. Meanwhile, Dracula travels to London, to the young Harker's fiancée, attracted by the girl's resemblance to the woman he loved four centuries ago and who, by committing suicide, caused his damnation. The intervention of Van Helsing, a scientist-sorcerer, will save the girl's fate and put an end to the centenarian vampire's deeds. Thanks also to an exceptional cast, with Hopkins (Van Helsing) and Oldman (Count Dracula) leading the way, Coppola gives us a magnificent film, perhaps the best "Dracula" of all time. The director reinterprets Stoker's novel, highlighting the more morbid aspects opposed to the more "sacred" ones and, at the same time, sketching a romantic and melancholic Dracula as never seen before. Despite being a Hollywood megaproduction, the film also offers some excellent gore scenes and good doses of blood, but it is above all the extreme attention to detail (from costumes to sets), the excellent photography, the skillful lighting effects (just think of the count's shadow that moves on its own) and the inspired direction of master Coppola that decree the film's success. High impact is the prologue in which we are shown the deeds of the infamous Count Vlad before his damnation: a plunge into the darkest Middle Ages that no film about Dracula had given us until that moment. Almost a masterpiece, absolutely worth watching!
