I loved how Frances insisted on making this movie with practical effects. It's one of the last movies that did it. As for Oldman, he killed it as Dracula in this. IMO, Oldman did Dracula as much justice as Christopher Reeve did for Superman.
This was such a great movie, Gary Oldman needs a lifetime achievement award for all the great rolls he played but the entire cast was amazing in B.Ss Dracula.
One thing I do know .. when I watched this the first time and saw the 3 vampire ladies "having fun" with Keanu.. I just thought "That's how i want to go".. or with a grenade and Vasquez in an Air vent 😁
I was 14 when this movie came out and it still gives me goosebumps. At the end of the movie I felt bad for Dracula. All he wanted was to be reunited with his lover.
I don't mind Keanu as much as I used too; Harker is supposed to be a dull, normal guy. One thing that always tickles me about this movie too, is that there's a novelization. Not a reprint of the original novel, but a book based on the movie based on the book.
What I liked about this film was it used a universal approach to the vampire folklore. In many scenes Dracula is not just some aristocrat in a cape, but also a shape-shifting monster who takes on all sorts of forms. Vampires are seen differently throughout out world folklore and not all of them are human-like.