Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Mel Brooks

Writers (WGA):

Mel Brooks (screenplay) &
Rudy De Luca (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

22 December 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Plot:

Another spoof from the mind of Mel Brooks. This time he's out to poke fun at the Dracula myth. Basically...

Plot Keywords:

Spoof | Cleavage | Sanitarium | Hypnotism | Seductive Dance

Cast

Leslie Nielsen	...	Count Dracula
Peter MacNicol	...	R.M. Renfield
Steven Weber	...	Jonathan Harker
Amy Yasbeck	...	Mina Murray
Lysette Anthony	...	Lucy Westenra
Mel Brooks	...	Dr. Abraham Van Helsing
Harvey Korman	...	Dr. Jack Seward
Mark Blankfield	...	Martin
Megan Cavanagh	...	Essie
Clive Revill	...	Sykes
Chuck McCann	...	Innkeeper
Avery Schreiber	...	Peasant on Coach
Cherie Franklin	...	Peasant on Coach
Ezio Greggio	...	Coach Driver
Leslie S. Sachs	...	Usherette (as Leslie Sachs)

Also Known As:

Dracula mort et heureux de l'être (France)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for comedic sensuality and gore.

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA | France

Language:

English | German

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby | SDDS (8 channels)

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #33994) | Iceland:12 | Finland:K-3 (video rating) (1996) | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Chile:14 | Germany:12 | Norway:11 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG

Company:

Castle Rock Entertainment

Trivia:

The bat transformations of Dracula were inspired by the cartoonish transformations of Bela Lugosi into a bat in Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Dracula appears to Renfield in the sanitarium, Renfield sits up with the covers still draped over him, in the next shot, the covers are completely off.

Quotes:

Jonathan Harker: [having been told to drive a stake into Lucy] Oh, that's horrible. Is there no other way?
Van Helsing: One other. We could cut off her head, stuff her mouth with garlic and tear off her ears!
Jonathan Harker: [after a moment's thought] Give me the stake.
[pauses again]
Jonathan Harker: No. No, I can't do it... you do it!
Van Helsing: It must be done by one who loved her in life!
Jonathan Harker: I only liked her!
Van Helsing: Close enough!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "RTL Samstag Nacht: Mel Brooks, Rüdiger Hoffmann (#3.21)" (1996)

Soundtrack:

Hungarian Dance No. 5

Stupid, but funny

This comedy followed the Bram Stoker book very closely. It merely turned the whole tale into a hilarious romp, making fun of Dracula and his inept sidekick, Renfield, as well as the other characters. A lot of slapstick gags in this film, some I saw coming from a mile off, but I still got a kick out of them. I especially liked the scene where Van Helsing and Harker staked the vampire in the tomb - what a riot. Neilson was great as the troubled bloodsucker.