A little while ago I was asked if I would like to receive
The Trail of Dracula to review. I responded
that I would love to receive “The Trial of Dracula” to which my friend replied “It’s
trail, if it was a trial he would lose”
Now I just want to say that judging by the amount of vampires I saw on
Halloween the other night, and the amount of vampire films to come out recently
I think he could get off on a hung jury or possible mistrial, or trail if you
will.
That being said when Halloween lights off and my son went to
bed I decided to throw Trial of Dracula on as I’ve always enjoyed the character
and I was in the mood for horror, but not a horror movie.
Trail of Dracula is a short documentary. It clocks about 1 hour and tells the history
of Count Dracula. It actually goes
further back beyond the legend of Vlad the Impailer, the character Count
Dracula is based off of. You learn about Nosferatu, who I always found rather
lame and of course you delve into Bram Strokers classic novel.
As I always hated the book, and the big budget film that
came out I was not overly excited to say the least. In fact I was a bit bored as even though I
love Vampire movies the lore dating back is not really a fascinating subject to
me. Luckily the director realized this
and the second act of the doc really picks up for us fans who are only about
horror.
We get to explore the history of Dracula in film. From Bela Lugosi, to Christopher lee its all
explored. Universal clips, which are my favorites
as my son and I are both huge Universal Monster fans to the hammer Films from
England, which are loved and admired by most all the horror population.
One of the cool things is learning a bit about the film
Satanic Rites of Dracula, which I recently reviewed and hearing about the last
Hammer Dracula film. We also get to hear
Werner Herzog discuss his Nosferatu, Udo Keir discussed Blood for Dracula, and
of course audio of Christopher Lee discussing his love of Dracula.
Now if you’re a Dracula movie fan get ready for this. There are 43, yes 43 different trailers for
Dracula films from all over the world on here.
That’s over 90min of Dracula Trail Goodness. That alone if enough reason to buy. And I have to say the video quality on this
disc is very good considering they had to mix many types of footage together.
If you like Dracula, or Vampires, or if you are just a fan
of horror films then there is something on here for everyone. A detailed documentary and a plethora of
trailers. Sadly though I did not see a
trailer for “Trial of Dracula” so I think I may have to start production on
that one.
Overall 3 out of 5 Stars!
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