And it has a sublime score by John Williams. Yes, that John Williams. And if Dracula’s death is a little silly in this one, well, that’s just in keeping with the rest of the wild swings it takes.

Have you seen this take on Dracula? What do you think of it?

(the only part of that film I like, which makes me realise Van Helsing is almost always the best part for actors to play in Dracula films).

There are some very surreal moments in this film, and some excellent moments of horror, plus Donald Pleasance as Dr. Seward.

And then there’s Van Helsing, played here by the legendary Laurence Olivier. Olivier managed to bring gravitas and campness to the part all at once. He’s a joy to behold, and, I believe, a clear influence on Anthony Hopkins in the Coppola film…

As for the changes, Lucy and Mina swap roles, Lucy is now Doctor Seward’s daughter, and engaged to Jonathan Harker who’s just sort of there. Mina is Van Helsing’s daughter, and saves Dracula when his ship crashes on the rocks in Whitby at the start of the film, only to become Dracula’s first victim.

But this could also be the start of all the stupid romantic takes on Dracula that came later. Which misses the point, somewhat. I love Langella precisely because he is evil disguised as seduction.

Langella brings a very naturalistic, and sexy portrayal of the Count. With massive hair. There’s no snarling savagery here, and no fangs. He’s the most seductive take on Dracula put on screen. He’s still an evil, predatory bastard who mesmerises his victims.

It’s not my favourite Dracula, at all, but I am fascinated by it. It’s directed by John Badham, who had previously brought us Saturday Night Fever, and would later direct Short Circuit, it features Frank Langella in the title role.

When you’re adapting a story to another medium, changes will happen, and for this version of Dracula, which is garish and very seventies, it works.

#31DaysOfDracula Day 11 - Dracula (1979 film)

This film is wild. While it retains the basic framework of a portion of the Dracula novel, it also makes a lot of changes to the characters, and truncates things a lot. Which is fine.

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A really bad look that Bitmap Books haven’t said a thing for days. I don’t think burying your head in the sand and hoping the controversy goes away is going to work for this.

The xenophobic author that @bitmapbooks.com is defending has a prejudice that is not exclusive to Brazilians.

He has plenty of hate in his heart and have some things to say about our fellow hermanos from Argentina as well... by calling them primates.

282. Oddworld: Munch’s Odyssey. It’s not as good as Abe’s Odyssey or Abe’s Exodus, but Munch’s Odyssey didn’t do a bad job of bringing Oddworld into the third dimension. And I liked Munch as a main character. Fun, if not top tier. #365games

Still, fingers crossed, we get a collection in black and white somewhere down the line. I would trade my colour one in.

Which is your favourite comic version of Dracula?

Since he was also pencilling here, the whole thing just looks superb. I love it.

The four issues were later collected, although Marvel made a mistake here by adding colour, which for me causes the art to lose some of its impact. Despite that, I still think it’s effective, and the cover is lovely.

Giordano was primarily known as an inker, embellishing the pencils of such legends as Neal Adams and Ross Andru on many comics for DC and Marvel. He knew how to bring light and darkness to the page, and this skill serves him well here.

Giordano himself said that after 30 years, he would have designed the characters differently, but was stuck with what his younger self had done. But it still all works as a comic version of Stoker’s story. It’s very faithful, and looks suitably gothic.

Until 2004, when Marvel approached the pair, asking if they wanted to finish the story, and publish the whole thing as a four part miniseries, simply titled Stoker’s Dracula.

You can tell that the final third of the comic was drawn later.

Unfortunately, in 1975, the magazine was cancelled, and while one more chapter was printed in issue #1 of Legion of Monsters, the story wasn’t finished, and looked like it never would be.

So it was a little more mature than its sister title.

With issue #5, writer Roy Thomas and artist Dick Giordano, legendary names in the world of comics, started adapting the Dracula novel in short, ten to twelve page instalments.

Tomb of Dracula was a full colour comic, and as such, was subject to the rules laid down by the Comics Code Authority. However, the spin-off, Dracula Lives!, was a magazine. It included black and white comics, but as a magazine, was not subject to the code’s rules.

With the success of their Tomb of Dracula comic in the seventies, which told new stories about the Count, who was even folded into the Marvel Universe with issue #1 of Giant-Size Spider-Man, Marvel decided it was time to launch a spin-off.

#31DaysOfDracula Day 10 Stoker’s Dracula (Marvel Adaptation)

There have been a lot of adaptations of Dracula over the years, but the Marvel Comics version might be my favourite.

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