By popular demand, a study of George Hamilton as Dracula from the 1979 film “Love at First Bite!” As always, the original is for sale in the Studio Store! READ MORE
This week is a look at Hollywood’s stab (or bite?) at “sexy Dracula” played by a young Frank Langella in the 1979 film “Dracula”. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
They can’t all be serious. Here’s Leslie Nielsen as the Count from the 1995 Mel Brook’s film “Dracula: Dead and Loving it”! As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
Better late than never this week… here’s another Dracula sketch: Jack Palance, from the 1974 TV movie. As always, the original is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
No doubt I’ll get a few arguments that Max Schreck did not “officially”‘ play Dracula in the 1922 film “Nosferatu”, since the character was called Count Orlock, and all the other names were also changed from the Bram Stoker story. However, it’s widely accepted that this was an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula, so much so that Schreck is in many lists of the greatest screen Draculas ever. The courts seemed to think it was Dracula as well, as they ruled against the filmmakers in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the Stoker estate and ordered all copies of the film destroyed. Like a good vampire,… READ MORE
Here’s a caricature sketch of another classic Dracula- the late Christopher Lee. Lee played Dracula in nine different films from the legendary “Hammer” studios, starting with “Horror of Dracula” in 1958 and finishing with “The Satanic Rites of Dracula” in 1973. As always, the original of this sketch is available in the Studio Store. READ MORE
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