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With Nosferatu a critical, audience, and box office hit, viewers can't seem to get enough of vampire movies as Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula has become a streaming hit on Tubi, hitting number six on the charts. The film stars Gary Oldman as a scenery-chewing Dracula along with Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Sir Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing. It received positive reviews at the time of its release and did well at the global box office, earning nearly $216 million globally on a $40 million budget.

Coppola's adaptation is a gothic and atmospheric take on the original book by Stoker. But don't expect anything in the realm of Universal Studio's classic monster movies as this film was produced and released by TriStar Pictures (Sony). Oldman's initial appearance as Dracula is different, to say the least. He appears as an old man with an interesting hair-do, robe, and long nails.

No matter what the era, vampires never go out of style. Since Sheridan Le Fenu first wrote the 1872 premiere vampire tale Carmilla, the immortal beings of everyone's nightmares have always been a source of fascination. The nightwalker's diet of human blood and aversion to sunlight have often given birth to a genre that delves into the metaphor. The horror subgenre has given rise to many popular franchises, such as Twilight and The Vampire Diaries.

However, the films that focus on the darker aspects of human nature and metaphorical stories about the creatures of the night are the most impressive. Certainly, Twilight has a place in pop culture for its own success, but there is only a collection of vampire films that are the cream of the crop.

Bram Stokers Dracula Adapted One of the Oldest Fixtures in Vampire Fiction

There have been many adaptations of Bram Stoker's epistolary novel,...

Vampires are the most used mythical creatures in horror films, and one is the most defining figure for the genre: Dracula, which features several descriptions and interpretations. Bram Stoker's Dracula is signaled out as one of the greatest movies in the genre, and, ahead of Robert Egger's take on Nosferatu, the film will be available to stream for free soon.

Bram Stoker's Dracula will be one of the titles that will be available on Tubi starting Dec. 1. The goth horror comes from The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola and is one of the many adaptations following the popular vampire. The free streaming service will add the vampire film alongside Adam Sandler's iconic comedy Happy Gilmore, Martin Scorsese's Leonardo DiCaprio film The Departed, as well as Sicario 1 and 2, and Kick-Ass, among others.

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Asking actors to switch accents for a role is always a risk, and some great movies were nearly ruined by terrible British accents. Great Britain has a remarkable number of different accents. People from neighboring towns can sound extremely different, like in the cases of Liverpool and Manchester. In some cases, people from the same city can still have different accents based on their class, race and upbringing. This makes some British accents extremely esoteric and hard to pick up for outsiders.

Britain's range of accents is so extreme that even British actors can struggle to adapt. Actors from London might have a tough time sounding like they're from Glasgow, for example. Any British person will immediately be able to tell if an accent is authentic or not, and a phony accent can ruin an entire movie. Fortunately, these movies have enough good qualities to ensure that one notoriously bad accent doesn't spoil them.

Longtime readers of Arrow in the Head will probably remember the article series The Test of Time. Now The Test of Time has been revived as a video series, and you can check out the new episode in the embed above! With this one, we’re looking back at director Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (watch it Here). To find out whether or not this one stands the test of time, check out the video embedded above.

Scripted by James V. Hart and based, of course, on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has the following synopsis: Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula’s castle to finalize a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker’s fiancée, Mina, the...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker – The Complete Series

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Kino Lorber

1974/ 1.33:1/ 1,020 Minutes

Starring Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland

Directed by Gordon Hessler. Alexander Grasshoff

“I saw what I saw when I saw it.” That was the mantra of Wilbur Grey, an anonymous shipping clerk who made a habit of bumping into some pretty famous monsters. As with most cautionary tales, no one will believe Wilbur about his strange encounters until it’s too late. Carl Kolchak, a beat reporter for Chicago’s Independent News Service, is stuck in the same boat; it seems that toddlin’ town is not only the City of Big Shoulders but Big Monsters—and they have a habit of playing in Kolchak’s backyard.

The newsman made his debut in the early ’70s when producer Dan Curtis parlayed Jeff Rice’s The Kolchak Papers into two television movies, 1972’s The Night Stalker and 1973’s The Night Strangler.

Beverly Hills 1968 — Sunset Blvd., The Strip, The Bistro, the haze in the Hollywood Hills — where a lowly hairdresser-stud is locked in a crazy lifestyle free-fall while having the time of his life with four beautiful women. Warren Beatty puts a facet of his public personality on display as a world-class ladies’ man who just can’t keep things together.

Shampoo

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The Criterion Collection 947

1975 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 110 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 18, 2018 / 39.95

Starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill, George Furth, Jay Robinson, Carrie Fisher, George Furth, Luana Anders.

Cinematography László Kovács

Production Designer Richard Sylbert

Art Direction W. Stewart Campbell

Film Editor Robert C. Jones

Original Music Paul Simon

Written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty

Produced by Warren Beatty

Directed by Hal Ashby

Mr. Pettis, banker: “What kind of references do you have?”

George Roundy: “I do Barbara Rush.

Forget your 'Jan in the Pan' jokes and all those 'thing in the closet' remarks about gay subtext. This loopy, kooky and kinky horror offering from New York's Tarrytown is a keeper despite its primitive direction and campy screenplay. Mad scientist Herb Evers answered the call to Bring Me the Head of Virginia Leith, and goes on a sleazy shopping spree to find a voluptuous body to make her complete, in the literal sense. It's all in the worst of taste: in other words, delightful. The Brain that Wouldn't Die Blu-ray Scream Factory 1962 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 81 min. / Street Date December 22, 2015 / 26.99 Starring Herb (Jason) Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniels, Adele Lamont, Bonnie Sharie, Paula Maurice, Marilyn Hanold, Bruce Brighton Cinematography Stephen Hajnal Special Effects Byron Baer Art Direction Paul Fanning Film Editors Leonard Anderson, Marc Anderson Original Music Abe Baker, Tony Restaino Written by Rex Carlton and Joseph Green Produced by Rex Carlton,...

Billy Wilder directed Sunset Blvd. with Gloria Swanson and William Holden. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett movies Below is a list of movies on which Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder worked together as screenwriters, including efforts for which they did not receive screen credit. The Wilder-Brackett screenwriting partnership lasted from 1938 to 1949. During that time, they shared two Academy Awards for their work on The Lost Weekend (1945) and, with D.M. Marshman Jr., Sunset Blvd. (1950). More detailed information further below. Post-split years Billy Wilder would later join forces with screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond in movies such as the classic comedy Some Like It Hot (1959), the Best Picture Oscar winner The Apartment (1960), and One Two Three (1961), notable as James Cagney's last film (until a brief comeback in Milos Forman's Ragtime two decades later). Although some of these movies were quite well received, Wilder's later efforts – which also included The Seven Year Itch...