Dracula
Regie:
Jonny CampbellCamera:
Tony Slater LingActeurs:
Claes Bang, John Heffernan, Dolly Wells, Joanna Scanlan, Morfydd Clark, Lujza Richter, Petra Dubayová, Matthew Beard, Lyndsey MarshalSamenvattingen(1)
Een onconventionele non helpt een gekwelde advocaat de details van zijn gedoemde zakenreis naar het kasteel van graaf Dracula op een rijtje te zetten. (Netflix)
Recensie (2)
There are old-fashioned gore effects in a line working with the original material, but referring to the Hammer adaptations in visuals and B-movies, plus cuts to a line in a convent that is conceived in a completely different way. On top of that, the traditional "Gatiss-Moffat" messing with the vampire rules, rubbing up against and alluding to the Universal era, Coppola's version and much more, including the great Dracula-Agatha duo, but not working against each other. She would need a completely differently styled vampire against her, and he would need a differently styled hunter with regard to the "very charismatic fun-loving overworked bastard" stylisation. I haven't been this torn in a long time; I both appreciated and more or less liked every aspect of it (and enjoyed some of it like a gourmand), but I still had trouble finishing it because of the disjointed hodgepodge of it all. ()
Claes is a great Dracula (except for that first version of the Romanian Borat), but the only time I buy this cardboard B-movie crap is when the Count is pulling off the lines of a villain from the pulp district. Otherwise, it's an ugly-looking, flimsily-mashed-together joke. ()