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Dracula dead and happy
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Original title Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Original language English
Country of Production United States of America, France, Italy
Year 1995
Duration 88 min
Type comedy, comedian
Direction Mel Brooks
Subject Bram Stoker (characters), Rudy De Luca, Steve Haberman
Film script Rudy De Luca, Steve Haberman, Mel Brooks
Producer Mel Brooks
Executive producer Peter Schindler
Production house Gaumont, Brooksfilm, Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia Pictures
Distribution in Italian Medusa Film, Filmauro
Photography Michael D. O’Shea
Assembly Adam Weiss
Special effects Richard Ratliff e Mike Shea
Music Hummie man
Scenography Roy Forge Smith, Bruce Robert Hill e Jan Pascale
Costumes Dodie Shepard
Trick Alan Friedman
Interpreters and characters
Italian voice actors

Dracula dead and happy ( Dracula: Dead and Loving It ) is a direct 1995 film, produced and starring Mel Brooks.

It is a parody of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Numerous references also to the films inspired by the novel, by the classic Dracula by Tod Browning of 1931 to the famous Bram Stoker Dracula Del 2002 of Francis Ford Coppola.

Thomas Renfield goes to Transylvania to enter into the purchase contract of a property in London with Count Dracula; Despite the worrying warnings of some villagers close to the Count’s Castle and the prophecies of an old gypsy [first] , decides to proceed towards the castle, where the Count, in addition to buying the property, makes the poor Renfield slaves. Arrived in London, Renfield (who turns out to be stupid and unreliable after the Count has made him slave) is closed in an asylum directed by Professor Seward, while Dracula learns of Jonathan Harker, his girlfriend Mina, daughter of the director Seward And Lucy, Mina’s friend.

Lucy, after about three weeks, begins to accuse the symptoms of an unknown evil (she is very pale and has no strength, feeling very long and confused) and seward, to cure her, calls her friend Abraham Van Helsing, an expert in unknown diseases and of dark factors. When he arrives in London, he discovers that Lucy was gripped by a vampire. Despite all Abraham’s protections, Lucy completes her vampire transformation and attacks Harker in the crypt, but is hit by Jonathan himself with a wooden stake in the heart [2] .

After Lucy’s death, a new danger is expected: this time it is Mina to be kidnapped the following night by the Count. To find out who is the architect of the ailments that have fallen on the Seward house, Van Helsing organizes for the following two weeks, a party with dance and Dracula approaches to dance with Mina. Van Helsing then makes a mirror discover within which the body of the count is not reflected, being Dracula himself a dead man found by the tomb, condemned to suck the blood to continue surviving and rejuvenating himself.

Dracula, noticed the trap, kidnaps Mina again by bringing it to the castle, followed by Renfield, who however lets himself be stored by Van Helsing, Harker and Seward to the crypt, where the Conte wants to vampire Mina to make his bride; But it is hindered by the arrival of dawn and by the numerous attempts of the three men. Struck by the light of the sun, he tries to hide in a reversing room for reversing roof, when Renfield shocks the wooden table of the ceiling, inviting him with a: “For here. Maestro!” And Dracula is incinerated by light. Harker therefore resumes Mina with him, while Renfield, after carefully raising the ashes of the vampire and having them put them back in the coffin [3] , follows Dr. Seward outside the crypt.

The film was made at the Culver Studios of Culver City. [ without source ]

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Reviews a Dracula dead and happy They were very negative, and currently the film has an 11% approval index on the Rotten Tomatoes review site based on 37 reviews by professional critics. [4]

James Berardinelli Di ReelViews He wrote: “[…] Dracula dead and happy does not approach the level of Frankenstein Junior . It is a parody without biting that is missing the target more often than it is captured in the sign. … Given the comic turning point to his career since the early 1980s, it is difficult to believe that Leslie Nielsen once was a serious actor. In these days, thanks to the Zucker brothers […], he has become a renowned comic actor. His sense of comic times is impeccable, and this made him an actor wanted for a great variety of parodies. Here, Nielsen assumes the leading role, but his presence cannot resurrect this film born dead. Unless you are a huge fan of Mel Brooks, there is no reason to sit down to see Dracula dead and happy . Sporadic humor promises some laughs, but the ninety minutes will pass very slowly. ” [5]

Joe Leydon of Variety He wrote: “Leslie Nielsen is quite pleasant as Count Dracula, depicted here as a dead half -year -old but frequently agitated who is inclined to slide on the excrement of bats in his baroque castle … the trouble is that, even if Dracula dead and happy He gains a good dose of grin and risatine, it is never really fun “. [6]

  1. ^ A quote by Brooks, who entrusts his wife Anne Bancroft the role of an old gypsy who is called Madame Ouspenskaya as the great actress of Russian origin who had played a similar role in The wolf man e in Frankenstein against the wolf man
  2. ^ Van Helsing and Harker, in Lucy’s crypt, recall the figures of Professor Abronsius and Alfred in Please don’t bite me on my neck! When the oldest incites the young man to plant the stake in the heart of the vampire in the coffin.
  3. ^ The ashes could bring the vampire back to life: in Dracula, prince of darkness , in fact, sequel to Dracula the vampire of the Hammer, the Conte returns after his ashes, carefully kept, are sprayed with the blood of a victim from his faithful servant.
  4. ^ Dracula: Dead and Loving It . are Rottentomatoes.com , Rotten Tomatoes. URL consulted on 11 February 2012 .
  5. ^ Dead and Loving It – A Film Review by James Berardinelli . are preview.reelviews.net , REELVIWS.NET. URL consulted on 11 February 2012 .
  6. ^ Dracula: Dead and Loving It – Review by Joe Leydon , Variety.com, 17 December 1995. URL consulted on 11 February 2012 .

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