Bram Stoker's Dracula

Coppola's is more faithful to Bram Stoker's novel than many film versions, while also providing the Count with a prehistory. The result is an opulent, romantic and operatic vision of vampirism vs. Victorian repression that invokes the genesis of cinema while making this familiar story uniquely a Coppola movie. More than that, Coppola's decision to create all the effects in camera, using shadow puppets, smoke and miniatures, invokes the early days of cinema.