Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Then Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) asks the paralegal Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) to come to Transylvania to finalise a property purchase, he believes he recognises his deceased wife Elizabeta in a photo of Harker's fiancée Mina (Winona Ryder). He leaves Harker behind in his castle and travels to London in the form of an attractive, charismatic man to win Mina over. He feeds on Mina's best friend Luzy (Sadie Frost), whose sudden lack of blood poses a riddle for Professor Abraham van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins). While Mina falls more and more for the dark prince, her fiancé and the professor are already hot on his heels. A deadly hunt for Dracula begins.

With the gothic horror film Bram Stoker's Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola created what is probably the most successful reinterpretation of the vampire myth. In order to avoid computer effects, he insisted on analogue effects and used methods from the early days of cinema history. The result won an Oscar each in the effects, make-up and costume categories in 1993 and was nominated for its set design. Incidentally, Annie Lennox contributed the end credits song ‘Love Song for a Vampire’.