Dracula Rising
| Dracula Rising | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Fred Gallo |
| Written by | Rodman Flender |
| Produced by | Mary Ann Fisher |
Production company | New Concorde |
Release date |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Dracula Rising is a 1993 American horror film directed by Fred Gallo shot in Bulgaria. It was financed by Roger Corman to cash in on Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula.[1]
Cast
[edit]- Christopher Atkins as Vlad
- Stacey Travis as Theresa
- Doug Wert as Alec
- Tara McCann
- Vessela Karlukovska as Michelle
- Nikolai Sotirov as Timothy
- Zahari Vatahov as Vlad the Impaler
- Desi Stoyanova as Anna
Reception
[edit]Critic Kim Newman called it "a derivative little picture, indifferent overall but spasmodically intriguing."[2] DVD Talk said it "sinks to inconceivably low depths, lacking any entertainment value whatsoever. Its runtime is a brief 80 minutes, but nearly every last second can be categorized as "wholly uninteresting dialogue" or "long awkward stretches of silence"."[3]
The Schlock Pit wrote "Though attention-holding and functional, Dracula Rising stumbles in the script department. Its dreamy, flashback heavy structure becomes slightly draining despite the film’s snappy running time, and the clunkier passages of exposition aren’t helped by a miscast Atkins and his lack of charisma."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Skal, David J (2004). Hollywood gothic : the tangled web of Dracula from novel to stage to screen. p. 281.
- ^ Newman, Kim (8 February 2021). "Your Daily Dracula – Dracula Rising (1992)". The Kim Newman Website.
- ^ "Dracula Rising". DVD Talk. 25 June 2002.
- ^ "Dracula Rising (1993): Roger's Stakes". The Schlock Pit.
External links
[edit]- Dracula Rising at Letterbox DVD
- Dracula Rising at IMDb