Vampires

"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make!"

So, Waaaayy back in September, October time frame I started reading Bram Stokers Dracula, since it was free on my Nook reader. I've tried reading the book before but it starts out very boring. But after 20 pages or so I started getting into it. It was really cool. So I decided to go back and start watching all the Vampire movies I've missed over the years. Starting first with...

"Nosferatu" (1922): This film was supposedly a copyright infringer of it's day. But you know it's not bad. For it's time it was pretty good.

"Dracula" (1931): This is of course the version with Bela Lugosi. I didn't like this one as much as Nosferatu! I mean it's OK, nice to see people act like in real life versus like they are on a stage, but they changed the story around a bit. And I didn't like the fellow who played Renfield at all! Talk about hamming it up! And the end, it's like it just stopped. Van Helsing ... "Just a moment I'll be along" ... and then it ends!

"Bram Stoker's Dracula" : This is of course the version from Francis Ford Coppola. Now this one has the production values, but yetch what they did to the film! They ruined it. But it was fun to see Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Anthony Hopkins ruin a film. And at least 3 of them are good actors!

So by Halloween I was throughly up to date on my Vampires. But I still keep an eye out for interesting things and that's when I came across...

"Dracula - Dead and loving it!" : with Leslie Nielson. I can't believe it but Mel Brooks did a great job! Now the story was like the 1931 version but it works well enough and the story and gags rolled along nicely.

So there it is. I know more about Vampires than I ever expected I would. And all in all it made for a fun Halloween 2010!