This one is the 1st Dracula ever: even today, the movie is oppressing, dark and frightening and i imagine the huge effect it had at its release. This Orlok / Schrek is really a nightmarish vision and with all the shots he had in the movie, it's funny but at the end, he looked a bit like our 6th French President... Anyway, this movie is also very interesting because the later adaptations of Dracula really takes things from it with bigger production.
Hammer took the 1st part in Transylvania, the tavern, the crypt, etc... while Coppola is more about the2nd: the boat, the asylum, the night call and shadow plays...
The movie also proposes original moments that are truly impressive: the finger cut, the carnivore plant...
At the end, i keep in mind that this is a German movie and that this country was really big and original in that decade (see my other years) but since german cinema has lost its way...
Hammer took the 1st part in Transylvania, the tavern, the crypt, etc... while Coppola is more about the2nd: the boat, the asylum, the night call and shadow plays...
The movie also proposes original moments that are truly impressive: the finger cut, the carnivore plant...
At the end, i keep in mind that this is a German movie and that this country was really big and original in that decade (see my other years) but since german cinema has lost its way...