What were the best Dracula movies of all time?

[LongTomH]

Today, November 8, was Bram Stoker's birthday. Google dedicated their doodle to Stoker and his immortal creation:

Of course, there were links to numerous articles on Dracula and Stoker's other books, and of course people are asking the question:
What were the best movie adaptations of Dracula?

Here are the choices from the Christian Science Monitor:

1. Dracula (1931), directed by Tod Browning, with Bela Lugosi as Dracula,
   
2. Horror of Dracula (1958) directed by Terence Fisher, with Christopher Lee as Dracula,
   
3. Dracula (1979) with Frank Langella as Dracula,
   
4. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with Gary Oldham as Dracula,
   
5. Dracula, Dead and Loving It (1995), directed by Mel Brooks, with Leslie Nielsen as Dracula.

Bram Stoker's Dracula gets my vote for the sexiest vampire ladies!

[Applan]

1. BBC mini series

Louis Jordan as Dracula

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. That's my favorite too! n/t

[Applan]

18. I think it is the production which stays closest to the book

Very well done and you can get it on DVD now

[Lady Freedom Returns]

2. It is a tie for me!

1 & 4

[Archaic]

3. Love at First Bite.

End
Of
Thread.

[Skittles]

4. ANYTHING BELA

YES INDEED

[Lady Freedom Returns]

10. That man made Dracula...

DREAMY!!!!

[Skittles]

11. THAT ACCENT.....THOSE EYES

yes INDEED

[marasinghe]

5. Christopher Lee's my favorite.

[csziggy]

15. I love the Hammer vampire movies!

Though I do have a certain fondness for the rather silly movie, The Fearless Vampire Killers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061655/

[msongs]

6. the original w/bela lugosi. a bit hokey today but still the prototype nt

[pinto]

7. Nosferatu (1922 silent classic)

Directed by

F. W. Murnau

Produced by

Enrico Dieckmann
Albin Grau

Screenplay by

Henrik Galeen

Based on

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Starring

Max Schreck
Gustav von Wangenheim
Greta Schröder
Alexander Granach
Ruth Landshoff
Wolfgang Heinz

Music by

Hans Erdmann

Cinematography

Fritz Arno Wagner
Günther Krampf

Distributed by

Film Arts Guild

Release date(s)

4 March 1922 (Germany)

Silent film

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Before I cast my vote,

I will definitely have to take a look at "Bram Stoker's Dracula"

[cliffordu]

9. Shadow of the Vampire,

John Malkovitch and Eddie Izzard

And Willem Dafoe as the bat.......

Outstanding.

[OriginalGeek]

12. Came to post that...

I see it's handled. Carry on!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Werner Herzog's 1979 "Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht" with Klaus Kinski as Dracula

was pretty interesting, grim, and atmospheric.

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[Kennah]

14. The Lost Boys!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093437/

[HopeHoops]

17. The Pink Panther short - "Bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh"