The popular attention the vampire has enjoyed over the course of the history of film making is inversely proportional to the lack of enthusiasm it has generated among the critics. Nevertheless, the same as western or detective movies, the genre of horror in general and vampires in particular, have always had an unmistakeable authorial category. 

´Filmoteca Canaria´ organises a cycle dedicated to the vampire and its reflexion (who said that vampires have no refexion?)  in the cinema.

DRACULA (1979)

Original title: Dracula

Country: UK

Director: John Badham

Scrrenplay: W.D. Richter, based on the thetrical play by Hamilton Deane & John L. Balderston

Music: John Williams

Photography: Gilbert Taylor 

Cast: Frank Langella, Kate Nelligan, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Trevor Eve, Jan Francis

Duration: 109 minutes Colour VOSE

Synopsis:

Count Dracula, a person who is as attractive & seductive as he is dangerous & devoid of any scruples, establishes a friendship with Dr Seward and all those around him. Shortly after, Mina, an acquaintance of the doctor, dies mysteriously without a drop of blood in her body. Her father, Abraham Van Helsing, sets out to avenge the death of his daughter. Badham´s film, one of exacerbated romaticism, is different to other versions, both before & after, from its very opening sequence. The exceptional musical score was by John Williams, featuring without doubt one of his better compositions.   

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