Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) on Netflix
PG-1319951h 28mComedyFantasyHorror
A solicitor, Thomas Renfield, travels to Castle Dracula to close a deal for a vampire count, and becomes his slave. In England, the count moves in among new neighbors.
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Plot summary
In 1893, the solicitor Thomas Renfield travels to Transylvania to close a property deal for his client, the count. The count is a vampire and puts Renfield under a hypnotic spell, keeping him as a servant. Renfield sails with him to England and is found alone aboard, then shut away in the asylum that Dr. Seward runs. Dracula presents himself to his new neighbors at an opera house: Dr. Seward, Seward's daughter Mina, her fiancé Jonathan Harker, and their friend Lucy Westenra. He flirts with Lucy, and that night he enters her bedroom. When Lucy is found pale, with marks on her throat, Seward sends for Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Mel Brooks said he met critic Roger Ebert after Ebert gave the film a negative review and lashed out at him: "Listen, you, I made 21 movies. I’m very talented. I’ll live in history. I have a body of work. You only have a body." Ebert wrote that he was "saddened" by the encounter.
- Mel Brooks offered Kelsey Grammer $3 million to play the role of Dracula. Filming instead took place from May 8 to July 26, 1995, at Culver Studios in California, with photography wrapping that September.
- Released by Columbia Pictures in the United States in December 1995, the film was a critical and commercial failure, grossing $10.7 million against its $30 million production budget. It remains Brooks' last directorial effort to date.
- Bruce G. Hallenbeck defended the film in his book Comedy-Horror Films, calling it one of the greatest vampire comedies ever made and blaming its reception on jokes pitched so squarely at hardcore vampire-film enthusiasts that general audiences missed them, plus comparisons to Brooks's Young Frankenstein.
SPOILER
A joke waits past the end credits: Van Helsing opens Dracula's coffin and yells in Moldavian to ensure he has the final word between himself and the count, and after the credits roll Dracula responds in Moldavian, giving him the true final word.
