Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Really don’t like Dracula. Love the character and love when he shows up in things but really don’t like the Dracula story in Bram Stoker’s original novel. I remember being so frustrated reading about characters who see Dracula doing evil and magic and being infuriatingly obtuse about it. Dracula climbs up a castle wall like a lizard prompting Jonathan Harker to make insightful remarks like “How curious! I wonder what this could mean… I guess I’ll have to stick around…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Things I liked:
• Florence Pugh is an incredible actor
• The background actors/ cult members did a really good job of being just off enough to make you uncomfortable but not so off that it’s jarring
• Refreshing to see bright colours and light in a horror movie
•Beautiful set design, costumes, prop work and cinematography
Things I find a little confusing:
•What was this movie trying to say about Europe? That the European mixture of tradition with communalism…