# Can anyone ID this Dracula movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-dracula-movie/274538 "2004-11-13T05:22:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-dracula-movie/274538/1 "2004-11-13T05:22:46Z")
My dad brough home a Dracula movie when I was about 8 and there’s only one scene I watched before I fled. It’d be neat to see it again and see if it’s actually scary from the perspective of age. Unforutnately I have nothing to go on but that one scene and that it’s in colour and made before 1991 because that’s around when I saw it. The scene is Dracula’s being transported to London or wherever on a sailing ship. There’s a massive storm and they’re trying to throw excess cargo overboard. While attempting to throw D’s coffin over a white hand smashes through the lid and very graphically claws out one of the sailors throats. I think they do succeed in getting it over though, but it’s really hazy after that one throat ripping bit, and I didn’t watch the rest. Ring any bells with anyone? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-dracula-movie/274538/2 "2004-11-13T05:25:35Z")
That sounds a bit like the opening of Frank Langella’s version of “Dracula” from 1979. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-dracula-movie/274538/3 "2004-11-13T05:43:33Z")
Woah. I searched for it and the first thing to come up was a review with a picture from that scene! Talk about a fast answer, thanks a lot! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-dracula-movie/274538/4 "2004-11-13T09:08:39Z")
Best Dracula film, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-dracula-movie/274538/5 "2004-11-13T10:56:14Z")
What blows my mind is Laurence Olivier being in a Dracula movie. I’m going to have to watch this just to see that. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-dracula-movie/274538/6 "2004-11-13T15:30:39Z")
The movie also has an excellent score. I have it on LP. It’s my favorite Dracula movie too. Might not be “accurate” (Dracula shouldn’t be so handsome), and it’s so **lush** , that shouldn’t be either, it should be bleak and cold and depressing. Great movie. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-dracula-movie/274538/7 "2004-11-13T15:43:15Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > Best Dracula film, IMO. I never saw it. There’s ‘something’ about Frank Langella that bugged me. Maybe it was that he seemed to be too ‘soap opera-y’. I like Werner Herzog’s 1979 version, _Nosferatu_ starring Klaus Kinsky. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-id-this-dracula-movie/274538/8 "2004-11-13T18:12:12Z")
Oh, I have loved Frank Langella ever since I saw that movie! “I don’t drink… wine.” 😃