Bram Stoker's Dracula - Soundtrack

Bram Stoker's Dracula was one of the first films ever to be released on DVD and its classic vampire story and atmosphere was coupled with love and emotion to create an excellent adaptation of a classic. The soundtrack to the film, composed by Wojciech Kilar manages to cover every aspect of the film from powerful and gargantuan themes of might to the more sinister and even aromatic music, complete with a contribution from Annie Lennox. The later closes off the album and is called Love Song For a Vampire and while it doesn't quite fit in I think its slight variance from the rest of the music is quite important. Certainly this will ...  Read the complete review

Coming out in 1992, Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was touted to be the most faithful adaptation of the book yet, though even if it featured many details and even lines straight from the book, the film also took quite a lot of liberties with it source material, not least in giving Dracula and Mina a real love story not found from the book. More that that the film was a visualistic extravaganza and contained perhaps more diverse filming styles I have ever seen in any other film, which to top it off was all done without CGI, Coppola rather opting to use old film making techniques. Being the really sexually charged gothic horror drama that ...  Read the complete review