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Which of these movie Draculas from movies based on the original novel is your favorite?

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I picked this poll for a couple reasons.  1.  This conversation in the Horror Movies 101 group turned towards discussing the greatest Draculas.  2.  There was recently a vampire poll/tournament put on by Spout in which I think many people were a little disappointed that Twilight fans overwhelmed it.  In this poll it won't be the tournament format and since it's just Dracula, the Twilight guy won't be included.

Please vote only once in each poll.

Movies referenced in this poll:
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Dracula (1979)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Dracula (1931)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Nosferatu the Vampire (1922)
Dracula (1931)
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)

Re:Which of these movie Draculas from movies based on the original novel is your favorite?

Although I picked Kinski, I also wanted to give credit where credit is due to Gary Oldman.  What a transformation!

But Kinski's vampire was really 3 dimensional, especially since most of the other characters in that film were so flat.

my favorite scenes are 1) when he is moving the coffins off of the ship with this funny little walk  to the church and 2) when he is running through the deserted streets of the town, bounding and leaping with such exaggeration. Too funny!

Risselada:

I picked this poll for a couple reasons.  1.  This conversation in the Horror Movies 101 group turned towards discussing the greatest Draculas.  2.  There was recently a vampire poll/tournament put on by Spout in which I think many people were a little disappointed that Twilight fans overwhelmed it.  In this poll it won't be the tournament format and since it's just Dracula, the Twilight guy won't be included.

Please vote only once in each poll.

Movies referenced in this poll:
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Dracula (1979)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
Dracula (1931)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Nosferatu the Vampire (1922)
Dracula (1931)
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)

Re:Which of these movie Draculas from movies based on the original novel is your favorite?

I would have to go with the original Nosferatu.  Max Schreck was incredibly creepy and twisted, and had none of the sex appeal bestowed on later vampires.  He was truly a 'creature of the night', and not the suave over sexed vampire we see emerge after Bela Lugiosi's excellent performance.  I think the silence of the film, puncuated only by the bleating, frenzied organ music really adds an element of creepy.  Schreck was forced to rely on visuals to convey the derranged nature of his Dracula.

For those interested, the entire film is available here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6185283610506001721

Risselada:

Nosferatu the Vampire (1922)

Re:Which of these movie Draculas from movies based on the original novel is your favorite?

Definitely going with Max Schreck. Nosferatu, the Symphony of Horrors is just too darn good, especially since it was first. The first time I saw the film it was actually a version of the film in which some company had scored the film with a remixed techno-goth-heavy metal orchestrated soundtrack that was a little off-putting, but gave it a modern twist that was actually pretty interesting and made it all that more chilling. However, seeing the film as it was intended did the exact same thing which I felt was incredible.

Re:Which of these movie Draculas from movies based on the original novel is your favorite?

I voted for the Chinese guy cuz I can pronounce his name correctly, and because I just started learning Chinese, and somehow it feels right to do this, even though I know it's probably not the best choice. (Someone's got to vote for the asian dude!)

Re:Which of these movie Draculas from movies based on the original novel is your favorite?

seely:

I would have to go with the original Nosferatu.  Max Schreck was incredibly creepy and twisted, and had none of the sex appeal bestowed on later vampires.  He was truly a 'creature of the night', and not the suave over sexed vampire we see emerge after Bela Lugiosi's excellent performance.  I think the silence of the film, puncuated only by the bleating, frenzied organ music really adds an element of creepy.  Schreck was forced to rely on visuals to convey the derranged nature of his Dracula.

I answered Kinski, but haven't seen some of these.  It seems like so far the horrific and repulsive Draculas are beating out the sex appeal Draculas.  I will have to admit that if you are going to be honest to the book though, Dracula was quite a charming character most of the time.

Re:Which of these movie Draculas from movies based on the original novel is your favorite?

   Anytime this question comes up I will have the same answer.   Christopher Lee is my favorite "Dracula" all time!   And I HAVE seen all the other ones you listed (except for the Chinese guy!   WTF is up with THAT?) more than once.

   It doesn't hurt that Lee is one of my favorite actors and I don't mind watching him in ANYTHING.   (check out Howling 2 or  The Man With The Golden Gun  or  LOTR  or  Serial  or  To The Devil A Daughter  or ANY of the old Hammer Films...) .   Lee's "Dracula" was much more savage and animalistic than any of the others.    And his 6 foot + frame made quite an imposing character.   And his confrontations with Peter Cushing's "Van Helsing" were VERY physical and athletic and entertaining!   Although he wore the tux and cape made popular by earlier "Dracula's", Lee's "Dracula" was NOT a suave gentleman at all.   He played "Dracula" as more of a bloodthirsty animal!   VERY vicious and violent and animalistic!   As I have said before...   When he crouches down with arms outstretched in the "attack" position and his eyes turn BLOOD RED and he bares his gleaming white fangs and HISSES at you, you just KNOW he is pissed!

   Christopher Lee is, and probably always will be, my favorite "Dracula" ...

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Re:Which of these movie Draculas from movies based on the original novel is your favorite?

Can you believe that I've barely seen any of these Draculas?  Except Bram Stoker...I've seen that one.  Hey, I'm not up for scary movies so much, k?  K.  So, I could either pick Gary Oldman by default (he's pretty fantastic anyway) or vote for Christopher Lee because I like that guy too. 

Yeah....Christopher Lee.  It's the deep baritone voice.

Re:Which of these movie Draculas from movies based on the original novel is your favorite?

Bela Lugosi of course (i'm his only vote so far)!  by the way, where's George Hamilton? Love at First Bite

Re:Which of these movie Draculas from movies based on the original novel is your favorite?

wonga:

Bela Lugosi of course (i'm his only vote so far)!  by the way, where's George Hamilton? Love at First Bite

Are you sure you voted for Bela?  Currently he has no votes still!

Sorry I didn't include Love at First Bite becuase I didn't realize to what extent it modeled the original novel.  But I haven't seen it and didn't look into it too much.  I see there is a Renfield character in the movie though.