Though it sounds like an offbeat idea even for horror fans, the tech work is so well done that it could disarm unwary buffs attracted by the campy title.
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09/26/07
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003)
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Reviews Counted:58
Fresh:50
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Guy Maddin's film is a richly sensuous and dreamy interpretation of Dracula that reinvigorates the genre.
Synopsis: This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of... [More]
Starring: Zhang Wei-Qiang, Tara Birtwhistle, CindyMarie Small, David Moroni
Director: Guy Maddin
Reviews for Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Top CriticAn elaborate, self-conscious but arresting take on the Dracula myth.
09/26/07
Top CriticA fevered, sexy take on the material, it plays up the desires of the female players, the repression of the men and Dracula's status as all-purpose object of dread and desire.
04/01/06
Top CriticBy the end, you'll wonder why all films aren't made this way.
02/11/06
A production that is as sexually charged as it is beautifully designed.
12/06/05
No review available.
09/23/05
Maddin's Dracula takes us fantastically through gothic places that Bram Stoker failed to report in a production that is as sexually charged as it is beautifully designed.
08/17/04
Marries B&W silent horror-movie style with beautifully eerie ballet in a succulently cinematic, lustfully melodramatic adaptation that is at once wholly unique and uncommonly faithful to Bram Stoker's classic novel.
06/04/04
Anybody who’s willing to bring their own ideas about sex, love, and bloodletting to the film will likely find themselves sucked into Maddin’s growing cult.
05/18/04
It's a throwback to the days when horror movies often had a certain visual grandeur. And while one may miss a modern frisson or two, there's still a great deal of dreadful beauty to relish.
05/07/04
Just when you think that holly stakes, garlic, crucifixes and capes are all there is to vampire stories, Maddin and the Royal Winnipeg put Dracula back on his toes.
05/07/04
This film does for ballet what Robert Altman's recent dud The Company couldn't: It brings the dance form alive on screen, at once making it sexy, stylish and relevant.
03/10/04
A dance version that gorgeously captures the Royal Winnepeg Ballet's artistry while razzing the xenophobia and carnal hysteria underpinning Bram Stoker's story.
01/29/04
Attractive art house picture.
01/15/04
Top CriticRelying on the stage performance alone, there is little interesting about watching Dracula, Lucy, or Nina, pirouetting and prancing within their milieu.
12/31/03
It's a thoroughly rousing parade of invention. And visual? Like nothing you've ever seen.
12/12/03
It will no doubt leave ballet fans somewhat nonplussed, but this evocative danse macabre is an unusually insightful addition to the Count's long list of cinematic appearances.
11/25/03
In a year in which so many movies have (pun intended) sucked, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary stands even higher as a triumph of artistry and entertainment.
10/27/03
Much more about the hows (and maybe the whys) than it is about the whats.
10/23/03
A diversion that only makes you wish you could have seen Royal Winnipeg's original ballet.
10/09/03
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