AirDate: 3/20/2019 |
Overview: Which Dracula movie adaptation is most faithful to the original Bram Stoker book?? I wanted a definitive answer, so I selected 12 contenders and put them up to the test. This counts theatrical and television, but no sequels, spinoffs, or spoofs. THE CONTENDERS 1922 - Nosferatu "The silent version" 1931 - Dracula "The Lugosi version" 1931 - Dracula "The Spanish version" 1953 - Dracula in Instanbul “The Turkish version” 1958 - Dracula / Horror of Dracula "The Hammer version" 1970 - Bram Stoker's Count Dracula "The Jesus Franco version" 1973 - Bram Stoker's Dracula / Dracula "The Jack Palance version" 1977 - Count Dracula "The BBC '77 version" 1979 - Dracula "The Frank Langella version" 1979 - Nosferatu the Vampyre "The Nosferatu remake" 1992 - Bram Stoker's Dracula "Coppola's Dracula" 2006 - Dracula "The BBC '06 version” |