Who Was The Best Dracula?

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I grew up on Hammer Horror and Christopher Lee so I pick him. Lee was 6'5'', gothic looking, and had the best bad boy Dracula charm. Peter Cushing did a great job playing that villainous Van Helsing too. Christopher Lee also was one of those guys with a voice that you'd pay to hear read the phone book.

Jack Palance actually wasn't too bad either. Nosferatu counts also as Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski both did fine jobs as Count Orlock

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Last one that sat on my face gave me the red wings. I pay her extra.
 
Yeah I grew up with the Hammer Horror films too. Christopher Lee was the best, although the Frank Langella film was very good from memory.

I have to throw Leslie Nielsen in there too. :LOL:


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the Bible says that the only good Dracula is a dead Dracula and deader Draculas you can't find than Max Schreck.
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Rane1071 said:
Yeah I grew up with the Hammer Horror films too. Christopher Lee was the best, although the Frank Langella film was very good from memory.
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How long has it been since you watched Dracula (1979)? I don't mean to be a jerk but I thought Frank Langella lacked ahhhh.... ummm... oh yeah. Masculinity. BOOM! That's it. Masculinity. I guess it's hard to not look like Tinkerbell following Christopher Lee's performance. Jack Palance the exception, of course.

Look at the difference. Christopher Lee looks like the Prince Of Darkness while Frank Langella looks like a cast member of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. A man with soft eyes harvests no souls.

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Dino Velvet said:
Looking at Palance with his cheekbones I'm trying to picture Henry Silva as Dracula also around 1973. What a face.

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face like a frying pan is wjat come to mind but it is actually more skillet than pan if I'm being quoted
 
Señor Sarcasmo said:
face like a frying pan is wjat come to mind but it is actually more skillet than pan if I'm being quoted
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Ever see Sharky's Machine? Henry Silva cast as Henry Silva on **** in that deal. Real good and violent.

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You should put a poll up.

I remember Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Frank Langella, George Hamilton, Leslie Nielson, Klaus Kinski and Gary Oldman.
 
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You should put a poll up.

I remember Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Frank Langella, George Hamilton, Leslie Nielson, Klaus Kinski and Gary Oldman.
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I thought about it but this discussion is working out pretty good.

Gary Oldman as Dracula. Very different but Oldman was really creepy. I like how they connected him to Vlad The Impaler in the film too.

I don't know if you like Metal but I like this Iced Earth video.

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Christopher Lee was probably my favorite too. Next comes Jack Palance. :)

Offtopic.

Hmmmmm?? If we're talking vampires .. then we have to mention Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins in the Dark Shadows TV show. Over Johnny Depp in the movie.

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Dino Velvet said:
How long has it been since you watched Dracula (1979)? I don't mean to be a jerk but I thought Frank Langella lacked ahhhh.... ummm... oh yeah. Masculinity. BOOM! That's it. Masculinity. I guess it's hard to not look like Tinkerbell following Christopher Lee's performance. Jack Palance the exception, of course.

Look at the difference. Christopher Lee looks like the Prince Of Darkness while Frank Langella looks like a cast member of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. A man with soft eyes harvests no souls.
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Yeah it's been a loongg time since I watched it, and I was a wee little lad back then.

A side note forgot to mention Bela Legozi before. (Although John 8581 already did).

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Great topic. I adore Bela Legosi in the 31 version of Dracula. I also gotta mention Leslie Nielsen. :P

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Hmmmmm?? If we're talking vampires ..
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As long as we are talking Vampires can you name 5 good vampire movies since 1979? I only come up with three: Nosferatu(1979), Near Dark(1987), and 30 Days Of Night(2007). Nosferatu is my favorite of the three as it was another outstanding Klaus Kinski/Werner Herzog collaboration.

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Dino Velvet said:
As long as we are talking Vampires can you name 5 good vampire movies since 1979? I only come up with three: Nosferatu(1979), Near Dark(1987), and 30 Days Of Night(2007). Nosferatu is my favorite of the three as it was another outstanding Klaus Kinski/Werner Herzog collaboration.

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Then you have Louis Jourdan who also played Count Dracula in Count Dracula (1977) in the TV mini-series ...

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Sorry about taking this offtopic but here they are. These are a series of movies about vampires. Not necessarily Count Dracula.

Kate Beckinsale and Wesley Snipes ...

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Did you like the vampire / werewolf Underworld collaboration off films created by Len Wiseman, Kevin Grevioux, and Danny McBride?

Kate Beckinsale played Selene. Though it was more of a battle between vampires and lycans. A lycan is another word for a werewolf.

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Wesley Snipes as Blade. Here with Kris Kristofferson.

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I have that Count Dracula: The Mini Series on DVD but haven't watched it yet. I keep meaning to and eventually will.

We may have exhausted the Dracula topic so branching the thread out to Vampires is just fine. Let's talk about both Dracula and Vampires.

Never saw the Underworld movies. Also never saw Van Hellsing. I liked the first 2 Blade movies.
 
You know what I like? Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).

Winona Ryder is yummy but also, I like that film in general. Dracula looks odd, but I find him creepy and it works for me. For a bit of a Hollywood movie, I think they did some cool things with it, considering.

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