Dario Argento's Dracula 3D (2012)
 

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20204

This sounds like a terrible, terrible idea!!!!:doh:

3D-Definetly.But I think an Argento take on the oft-filmed tale would be interesting indeed.:nod:

As long as he had free reign and no studio interference.....

Well, one thing's for sure. It cannot be worse than Giallo



(Hopefully)

When's that out on DVD?

Until I see it,I'll give the old dog the benefit of the doubt....:behindsofa:

It's on Amazon mate - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Giallo-Adrie...3777691&sr=1-1 though I don't know much about this DVD.

It's a lot of fun....unintentional fun that is.

Cheers Kyle! :)

Thirty quid with a cover like that?

Looks like something you'd get free in a woman's weekly mag.....One of those attrocious afternoon tv movies.....:puke:

I predict another Phantom of the Opera fiasco! :fear: :laugh:

A faintly interesting idea...if Dracula wasn't so done-to-undeath. I mean, wasn't Coppolla's Bram Stoker's Dracula painful enough?

But then Dario has always loved the classic tales.

I'd rather he did some more Poe - I reckon Pit And The Pendulum lends itself to some sweet 3-D shots!

:pound: :pound: The cover is terrible! There was a better poster for the film, several yellow knifes, I believe.

AND the DVD has permanent Polish subtitles! Pah!

Urgh! Ford Coppolla's Dracula was terrible! I hate that film with a passion. :laugh:

I'm with you on the Poe idea however - can't go wrong like a nice bit of Poe.

I'd love to see Argento try his hand at a zombie movie. :nod:

Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes? YES! Yes. Yes. Yes. YES YES YES YES! Yes, yes, yes, yes. YES! Yes!



Me too.

Coppola's Dracula bull?-Bollocks! A visually sumptuous film.Fantastic.;)

Another Phantom fiasco B.E.?

I'd go more towards Andy Warhol's Dracula.....:nod:

A visually sumptuous (some might say "over-stylised" instead!) film containing abysmal performances from Oldman, Hopkins, Reeves and Ryder which goes on for sodding ever and contains not a tenth of the fun, frissons or visual glory that Terence Fisher managed to get into 80 minutes.

Dreadful stuff!

:laugh:

Hopkins was only ever bettered by Cushing as Van Helsing!

Not anywhere near the same league as Fisher,but still class all the same...we'll just need to agree to disagree.:happy:

I like Edward Van Sloan in the Universal ones, and Frank Finlay was pretty good in the hugely underrated Louis Jourdan version.

Laurence Olivier was outright appalling. :ack:

Coppola's Dracula is an amazing film. One of the better horror films of the 90s.

I have to agree, brilliant movie - small issue with a certain miss-cast Reeves aside - it's one of 90's horror finest achievements.

Great, great, great score too.

Yeah I like Coppola's Dracula too. Easily the best Dracula film in the last 20 years. :nod:

I hope DA goes back on form with this. He needs to!

Here here, on paper this has the potential to be the comeback he needs - though saying that, so was Mother of Tears!

I just want to know if Asia is going to be naked in it?

I'll second that.

Also, who could he cast? I'm all for him approaching Max von Sydow for Van Helsing.

That would inherently make it the greatest Dracula film EVER.

I'm also a fan of Coppola's version of Stoker's novel despite Keanu Reeves -- I love that cut when the film goes from Lucy being beheaded to Van Helsing serving up a bloody steak!

I hate 3-D with a passion and think that this could be worse than Mother of Tears and Phantom of the Opera combined. It's actually quite sad when you think what's happened to Argento's career of late as we used to think about how great his next film would be but now it's a case of damage limitation and wondering how bad it could be.

I think Dracula is all wrong for Argento as his films and more about the visuals than the narrative and this story is all about the different forms of storytelling and how each character describes what's happening. It's too wordy for Argento who, as has been said, would be the perfect guy to direct a zombie movie.

the producers are the guys who produed Bruno Mattei's dv films.

I still think Mother Of Tears is great! Certainly Phantom Of The Opera was cack, and Giallo was below par (due to Adrien Brody mostly), but I just don't get what people have against Mother Of Tears!

My only problem with Mother of Tears is as it pales in comparison to Suspiria and Inferno. It's not Dario Argento at his best and, if it was directed by anyone else, it really wouldn't be considered as anything better than an average horror film.

It's interesting enough and directed with all the visual flair you'd expect from an Argento picture, but it doesn't hold a candle to the first two instalments in the trilogy.

Back in the early 80s people said the same thing about Inferno in relation to Suspiria...I think I'll wait a few years then see what people think! :lol:

Good point. I'll give it until 2020 and, if it is then recognised as a horror masterpiece, I'll admit I was wrong!

In the meantime, it probably deserves another watch as part of a "Three Mothers" triple bill.

No one can hold a candle to Cushing. He is the definitve Van Helsing, just as Lee is the greatest Dracula ever!

Max Schreck is the greatest Dracula of all time, even if his character was named Count Orlock for legal reasons. Peter Cushing is everything you want in a van Helsing: determined, cool under pressure and pretty suave. Anthony Hopkins really did camp up for the character in the Coppola version, chewing the scenery as if he hadn't eaten for a fortnight!

Indeed. I wanted to throw things at the screen. He often makes me want to do that. A very over-rated actor.

He is the master of the wandering accent as well, as you never quite sure where his character is supposed to be from. I don't know if you've seen Robin Hood, but Russell Crowe has obviously been taking lessons from Anthony Hopkins when it comes to voice coaching as he lurches around from Irish to Scouse and even a bit of Geordie!

This is a hell of a digression from where we started, with the announcement that Dario Argento was going to do a 3-D Dracula -- how do these things happen?! Is it time to get back on topic?

Pfft! On Topic is for the anal!

It's all (tenuously) Dracula related! :lol:

There should probably be a disclaimer by the threat heading saying something like "The content of this thread may not accurately reflect the subject heading and your home or mortgage may be under threat if you're daft enough to believe that it would be!"

Debate makes the world go round,and all the above talk IS Dracula-related,whatever we disagree about.:)

Anyway,will Argento do a mean Dracula?

If you mean "mean" as in "nasty"...

I hope so. I DESPISE the current trend to make vampires "misunderstood" or "sad lost souls" and "sexy" and all that crap. I want vampires to be vile, hideous, soil and blood smeared monsters, dammit!

That's one of my guilty pleasures. Whilst there are elements that are undoubtedly bad, as a whole, I think it's a failry decent retelling of the classic story. Oh well, we can't all like the same things. :)

Yeah,nasty weergeen hunters like Udo Keir.....:nod: