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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

2003

METASCORE

Universal acclaim based on 19 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Ratings

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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: May 14, 2003

Summary: Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire yarn from stage to screen, Guy Maddin has forged a sumptuous, erotically charged feast of dance, drama and shadow. (Zeitgeist Films)

Director: Guy Maddin

Genre(s): Horror, Musical

Runtime: 73 min

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100

Chicago Reader

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Maddin takes on his first commissioned feature--an adaptation of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's production of Dracula--and succeeds brilliantly, making it his own while offering what may be the most faithful screen version to date of Bram Stoker's novel. Read full review

100

Christian Science Monitor

David Sterritt

The visual style is at once deliberately archaic and slyly postmodernist, slinky and sensuous from first frame to last. Read full review

90

L.A. Weekly

John Powers

Maddin's genius is so inescapably idiosyncratic that his work seems destined to remain a cult taste. Although Dracula won't change that, I hasten to add that this is the most inventive vampire picture of the last 80 years. Read full review

80

Village Voice

J. Hoberman

Maddin has created a fascinating hybrid--this enraptured composition in mist, gauze, and Vaseline is more rhapsody than narrative, less motion picture than shadow play. Read full review

80

Variety

Deborah Young

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. Read full review

75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Rick Groen

A 75-minute tour de force that's often fascinating, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately rewarding. So be patient -- the payoff will come. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly

Owen Gleiberman

Maddin chops it up into a feature-length antique-bloodsucker video, and the result takes hold neither as dance nor as silent horror dream. Read full review

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