I Watch Films: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bram Stoker’s Dracula In 15 th century Romania Vlad Dracula (Gary Oldman) returns from the war to discover his wife has killed herself, believing him dead. Told she will be damned to hell, he declares he will renounce God and rise from the grave, becoming a vampire. In the 19 th century lawyer Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) is sent to Romania to meet a old, decrepit Count Dracula after his colleague Renfield is committed to an asylum (run as it turns out by Harker’s friend Jack Seward (Richard E Grant). The castle is strange; having completed the business (buying up property in London) Dracula spots Harker’s picture of his fiancĂ© Mina Murray (Winona Ryder) and recognising her as being played by the same actress as his wife decides she is the reincarnation. He traps Harker in the castle to be seduced and bled by his three brides and heads for England. Mina is staying with Lucy Westenra (Sadie Frost) and has three suitors; Quincy Morris (Billy Campbell), Lord Arthur Hol...


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