Who's your favorite big screen Dracula?

[gwynplaine]

Another great Dracula was jack Palance

I think Daniel Day Lewis also played Dracula on stage in London, now that would have been cool to see

 

[Young Superman]

I think Michael Shannon would make a good Dracula.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Udo Kier is hilarious in Blood for Dracula. It's almost like Tommy Wiseau as Dracula.

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[CountOrlok]

Another great Dracula was jack Palance

My god, Palance is the most AWFUL Dracula I have ever seen.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Lugosi. All other Draculas are compared to him and for good reason. Our entire image of Dracula is not Bram Stoker's, it is Bela Lugosi's interpretation of the character as visualized by Tod Browning. It arguably changed vampires from an image of death to an image of sex in pop culture and makes an early talkie still worth revisiting 80 years later.

I am not even sure Browning deserves much credit. Lugosi played the character on Broadway prior to being cast in the film.

 

[gwynplaine]

My god, Palance is the most AWFUL Dracula I have ever seen.

I liked him, but maybe because I'm a big Palance fan. I also thought he was a good jeckyll/Hyde in another Dan Curtis production, but true the films themselves weren't that great.

 

[gwynplaine]

t: (At least the Gene Page Soundtrack was pretty awesome.)

 

[Eddie Dean]

All joking aside, William Marshall is actually pretty good in it. Definitely better than what the movie calls for.

 

[gwynplaine]

True. I might be wrong but wasn't he like a great Shakespearean stage actor or something?

 

[Defacto]

No love for Werner Herzog's Nosferatu?

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Gary Oldman

 

[DACrowe]

I am not even sure Browning deserves much credit. Lugosi played the character on Broadway prior to being cast in the film.

Well I am not sure if it is Browning or the DP (can't recall his name at the moment, of course he was a German import from the expressionism movement), but the way Lugosi was photographed and the environment of the first 20 or so minutes of that movie is stunning. Lugosi played other vampires on the screen, but none were filmed so otherworldly or terrifically. But yes, Lugosi and Dwight Frye are what elevate that movie into being a classic.

 

[Rowsdower!]

I have to say I'm not a fan of Oldman's Dracula. I love Gary Oldman as an actor but something about that movie never worked for me. Everybody pokes fun at Keanu Reeves' performance, but I honestly didn't find any of the other actors much better and the movie just feels cheesy to me. Hopkins is especially awful. He came off like he was just screwing around.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Well I am not sure if it is Browning or the DP (can't recall his name at the moment, of course he was a German import from the expressionism movement), but the way Lugosi was photographed and the environment of the first 20 or so minutes of that movie is stunning.

Karl Freund, director of The Mummy.

 

[Soapy]

Lugosi.

If I was going to cast a new Dracula, I would probably go for Mads Mikkelsen.

 

[dark_knight08]

My favorite big screen Dracula is tie between Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman.