Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Directed by

Mel Brooks

Genre

comedy horror, parody film, vampire film

Country

France, Italy, United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 1,121 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Dracula arrives in London and tries to prey on a young woman and her friends. A bumbling vampire hunter tries to stop him with absurd antics.

sillygoofycampylightheartedover-the-topsatiricalslapstick

What happens

Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a 1995 supernatural horror comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, from a screenplay by Brooks, Rudy De Luca, and Steve Haberman, and based on a story by De Luca and Haberman. The film stars Leslie Nielsen as Dracula and Brooks as Van Helsing, with Steven Weber, Peter MacNicol, Amy Yasbeck, Lysette Anthony, Harvey Korman, and Anne Bancroft in supporting roles. Although the film is primarily a parody of the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, it follows the 1931 film Dracula in its deviations from the novel. It also parodies, among other films, The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), while the visual style and production values are reminiscent of the Hammer Horror films. Dracula: Dead and Loving It was theatrically released by Columbia Pictures (through Sony Pictures Releasing) in the United States on December 22, 1995, and by Gaumont Buena Vista International in France on April 10, 1996, to critical and commercial failure, grossing $10.7 million against its $30 million production budget. The film is Brooks' last directorial effort to date. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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