TITLE: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
DIRECTOR: FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
WRITER: JAMES V. HART
THE BOTTOM LINE: Coppola brings the old spook story alive -- well, undead -- as a luscious, infernal romance.
HE IS ROMEO, WHOSE YOUNG wife, believing him dead, kills herself. He is Lucifer, vowing revenge on the God who has betrayed him. He is Don Juan, sucking the innocence out of his conquests. He is the Flying Dutchman, sailing the centuries for an incarnation of the woman he loved. He is Death, transmitting a venereal plague in his blood, in his kiss. He is even Jesus, speaking Jesus' last...
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