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Guy Maddin is a scholar, poet, prankster, and ferociously devoted classicist who likes to resurrect dead cinemas and deader directors and make them vital all over again.
Read the full reviewBrings kinetic, stylistic and even sexy dimension to the Bram Stoker legend.
Read the full reviewAn inspired, original, and gracefully integrated collaboration of theater and cinema that complements not only both forms, but also the seductive, dreamlike qualities of the source material.
Read the full reviewThe film is poetic and erotic, creepy and melodramatic, overwrought and sometimes mocking, as if F. W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922) had a long-lost musical version.
Read the full reviewFor all its eccentricities and technical quirks, Dracula is a compelling expressionistic work.
Read the full reviewThough it sounds like an offbeat idea even for horror fans, the tech work is so well done that it could disarm unwary buffs attracted by the campy title.
Read the full reviewSucceeds despite that mismatch of artist and material.
Read the full reviewMaddin chops it up into a feature-length antique-bloodsucker video, and the result takes hold neither as dance nor as silent horror dream.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 84
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