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Infinite Chaos

Infinite Chaos

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Wow, as a long time horror fan I'm absolutely loving the BBC reboot of the Dracula story currently on BBC1.

May not be on BBC Americas or anywhere else yet but I'd love to read other opinions when you finally get the chance. Genuinely scary, my partner has been refusing to go anywhere around the house without me and last night I had to promise to check out any noise we heard in the house after watching episode 1.

Who would have thought there was "life" in the old Dracula story? Vampires have become passé, overtaken by SFX creatures / zombies or even made into superheroes like Blade's vampire but this takes us right back to the evil monster who plays with your mind and sucks your blood.
 
When I was in the service a vampire movie called "Lost Boys" came out and that was the decline of vampires for me. Since then there have been Ann Rice books, Wesley Snipes movies and now something called "Twilight".

Nothing quite compares to sitting there in you room reading the Bram Stoker classic. That carriage ride up to the castle just dragged you in and you were stuck turning pages for the next day or two.
 
Infinite Chaos said:
Wow, as a long time horror fan I'm absolutely loving the BBC reboot of the Dracula story currently on BBC1.

May not be on BBC Americas or anywhere else yet but I'd love to read other opinions when you finally get the chance. Genuinely scary, my partner has been refusing to go anywhere around the house without me and last night I had to promise to check out any noise we heard in the house after watching episode 1.

Who would have thought there was "life" in the old Dracula story? Vampires have become passé, overtaken by SFX creatures / zombies or even made into superheroes like Blade's vampire but this takes us right back to the evil monster who plays with your mind and sucks your blood.
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It’ll be available in the US on Netflix as soon as the series completes its run in the UK which i think is this week.

I’ll look out for out.
 
Gaius46 said:
It’ll be available in the US on Netflix as soon as the series completes its run in the UK which i think is this week.

I’ll look out for out.
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Really hope you enjoy it.

Lutherf said:
When I was in the service a vampire movie called "Lost Boys" came out and that was the decline of vampires for me. Since then there have been Ann Rice books, Wesley Snipes movies and now something called "Twilight".

Nothing quite compares to sitting there in you room reading the Bram Stoker classic. That carriage ride up to the castle just dragged you in and you were stuck turning pages for the next day or two.
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It's not exactly the same as the Bram Stoker book but I don't want to run spoilers. It's really worth watching - just don't break the episodes if you can help it, give yourself the full hour and a half per viewing time. We had to break the first episode because my partner couldn't stomach any more and so it was hard getting getting back into the final 35 minutes.
Can tell you it warmed up back to how good the first part was.
 
Looks like it will be available on Netflix Jan 4. OK, I'll check it out. Thanks for the heads up.
 
PoS said:
Looks like it will be available on Netflix Jan 4. OK, I'll check it out. Thanks for the heads up.
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Yeah, I'm interested in how vampire-weary we have become after all the different ways vampires have been used in movies these last 30 years.
 
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Yeah, I'm interested in how vampire-weary we have become after all the different ways vampires have been used in movies these last 30 years.
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Well having read the Bram Stoker book, it seems the Dracula in there isnt a suave Bela Lugosi type that's commonly depicted in the movies. Hopefully this show will be more faithful to the source material. Ive always considered vampires as monsters anyway, not some Eastern European guy who seduces women.
 
Thanks to the OP for the alert about DRACULA. I felt it was 2/3 of a really good tale. The last segment left me very cold and dissatisfied and not at all happy with what they did with it.

I did like the James Mason quality of the lead and though the portrayal of the Sister Agatha character - particularly in the first episode - was tremendous.

And I did NOT buy the explanation of what kept Dracula at bay that comes at the end of the third episode. It just rang hollow.
 
Ive almost finished episode 2, I’ve watched it kind of segmented.

I am... just stunned by the whole thing like....

Oh my god.

Um... it genuinely makes me feel uncomfortable watching it but I can’t look away.

And Dracula is an interesting character, I often like those charming villains with a bit of spunk and he sort of has that but the guy who plays Dracula is amazing... he just plays evil incarnate to such an extent I don’t think I’ve ever seen on screen.

The show is truly masterfully made to be utterly horrifying and that is very difficult to do... brilliant.
 
I may have to take that all back now, as soon as it came into the modern age, something I didn’t expect, it’s completely gone off the rails for me.

Suspension of disbelief is very important for a story like this and when characters start doing things and stuff starts happening that make you go... what? It really loses its steam.

Like, it all makes sense in the 18th century where no one has a point of reference but in the modern age where this supposedly advanced organization has been studying him and stuff none of it makes sense and it even starts to break the rules of its own universe very quickly or so it would seem.

The lawyer turning up was when I completely turned off and everyone just starts behaving like a moron, ill still keep going but I dunno, it’s suddenly getting a bit ****.
 
Watched it and...

First episode seemed promising. A new, more modern take on the old book. There was some pretty good double-entendre humor, which wasnt bad and although the end almost became a Van Helsing movie, I was impressed to quickly move onto the next episode.

And then my doubts began. The Demeter part of the book was very short, and I was wondering why they kept going for an entire episode on that ship. The plot became an Agatha Christie type whodonit, though the audience already knew. I also figured out right away who was in Room 9. When the twist ending came I was doubly disappointed.

Then the third and final episode- and it just turned craptacular. I skipped through most of it because I quickly lost interest.

Summary: good first act, okay middle, terrible third. It was like two totally different shows mashed up into one.
 
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PoS said:
Watched it and...

First episode seemed promising. A new, more modern take on the old book. There was some pretty good double-entendre humor, which wasnt bad and although the end almost became a Van Helsing movie, I was impressed to quickly move onto the next episode.

And then my doubts began. The Demeter part of the book was very short, and I was wondering why they kept going for an entire episode on that ship. the plot became an Agatha Christie type whodonit, though the audience already knew. I also figured out right away who was in Room 9. When the twist ending came I was doubly disappointed.

Then the third and final episode- and it just turned craptacular. I skipped through most of it because I quickly interest.

Summary: good first act, okay middle, terrible third. It was like two totally different shows mashed up into one.
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I thought the character Dracula became comical by the end
 
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