Wes Craven's Dracula 2000 is an anemic addition to vampire lore As the wizened Van Helsing, Christopher Plummer speaks in a standard, fakey sort-of-German accent, at least until the moment he has to intone the name of the evil one. Believe me, you have never heard it...
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Twenty-first century Dracula is not scary enough
What does today's audience expect from a horror movie? Someone inevitably will follow a spooky sound into the dark, there will be some number of gory murders, the main bad guy will be really hard to kill and the dialogue will be sprinkled with one-liners. "Dracula...
Dracula 2000
No, it doesn't suck. Injected with new life, Bram Stoker's celebrity vampire draws some fresh blood in this fun and surprisingly solid offering. [b Story[/b Billed as "Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000," Miramax distribution vein Dimension Films is no doubt trying to...
Those Wacky, Drooling, Foaming, Biting Undead
Horror films with delusions of historical grandeur have to strain awfully hard these days to come up with fresh explanations for the origins of evil. Hasn't it all been done at least 10 times over? Well, as it turns out, no. The doozy of an explanation offered by...
Fangs … but no fangs
In his encore to playing "60 Minutes" interrogator Mike Wallace in "The Insider," Christopher Plummer is again going after big game in "Dracula 2000," the latest attempt at dragging Bram Stoker's well-traveled vampire into modern times - a frequent destination for the...
WEAK PLOT PIERCES HEART OF STYLISH ‘DRACULA’
"Wes Craven Presents Dracula 2000" is this film's official title, and it has a nice ring to it, seeming to promise a sly and subversive updating of one of the horror genre's pivotal myths. This is not exactly a minty fresh idea; bolder movies than this one, from David...
‘DRACULA 2001’ A BLOODSUCKING GOOD TIME AT THE MOVIES
JAKARTA (Japan): It seems that vampire movies never die, just like the fanged immortals themselves. However, filmmakers have their work cut out for them in the effort to make something interesting from the seemingly ready-to-use formula so familiar to audiences....
Focus plants ‘Flowers’
Universal Pictures' specialty division Universal Focus has picked up U.S. distribution rights to "Harrison's Flowers," which stars Andie MacDowell and David Strathairn. The first English-language pic from French helmer Elie Chouraqui, pic was released in France on...
Harrison’s Flowers
A 7 Films Cinema/StudioCanal/France 2 Cinema production. (International sales: Studio Canal, Paris.) Produced by Elie Chouraqui, Albert Cohen. Directed by Elie Chouraqui. Screenplay, Chouraqui, Didier Le Pecheur, Isabel Ellsen, Michael Katims. Camera (color,...
London Calling…
Well, you must hand it to British writer-director Stewart Sugg for squeezing this much style and energy out of such a low-budget production. Fast Food is one of those hip London thrillers that blends strong violence and black comedy (ie, heavy doses of A Clockwork...
Fast Food
I sat down to Fast Food with high hopes. It promised inspiration from new Asian cinema, and boasted Douglas Henshall as the lead - always a very attractive, watchable performer even when, as here, he is let down by the script. Fast Food quickly degenerates into just...
A Life in the Day of Phil Hunt, Producer of “Fast Food”
Haven't quite worked out why we do it. Is it the glamour? (Not for producers surely.) Is it the sense of accomplishment as you stand in a screening of your completed film? (Or should I say sit in your wheelchair as all your limbs have finally given up on you.) Or...