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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 7.1 remaster, two commentary tracks, and subtitles in English, French, and Spanish.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/
Video encoded in two-pass 13.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : Dracula has appeared in so many films, I've lost Count (heh), both straight adaptations and not so much, but this must be one of the best. It's a fairly close adaptation, although it takes a number of liberties, but I think it captures the tone of the book wonderfully, as well as emphasizing some of the repressed Victorian themes like fear of female sexuality. The visuals are incredibly sumptuous and soaked in sexuality and religious imagery, the many retro-style practical and optical effects, calling back to expressionist films like Nosferatu, are wonderful and creepy, the performances are mostly great, Keanu's accent notwithstanding, and it's just a good time all around. It's a Dracula who fucks, and I like it. The excellent cast includes, of course, Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Sadie Frost, Cary Elwes, Richard E. Grant, Billy Campbell, Tom Waits, and Monica Bellucci.
Stop me if you've heard this one before, but a Transylvanian count named Vlad Dracula fought against the Ottoman empire, and returning from battle, found that his wife committed suicide after she'd been deceived into thinking he'd been killed. When a priest tells him his wife's soul is damned to hell for suicide, he desecrates the chapel and renounces God, swearing to rise from the grave and avenge her. When he drives his sword into a large stone cross, it bleeds, and drinking the blood, he becomes a vampire. In 1897, solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to arrange real estate deals for Dracula, his colleague Renfield, who was previously Dracula's solicitor, having gone mad. Dracula is strange but welcoming, but when he sees a photograph of Harker's fiancée Mina, he discovers she's identical to his dead wife, and believes she's her reincarnation. He leaves Harker to be bled by his brides, and sails to England. Dracula seduces and feeds on Mina's friend Lucy, with whom she's staying, then sets about charming Mina, and the two develop a relationship, Dracula now appearing young and handsome. Harker escapes Dracula's castle and takes refuge in a convent, from which he sends for Mina, and they marry. Dracula, heartbroken, turns Lucy into a vampire, and she's killed by Van Helsing and her grieving fiancé. However, Mina still has feelings for Dracula, and when she returns to London, he begins turning her into a vampire, then flees back to Romania, and Harker, Mina, Van Helsing and the rest give chase.
This is a quite nice 4k remaster, but it's a bit murky in the shadows, a scan from an internegative, perhaps, and grain is a bit variable. Otherwise, nice color, decent detail, not too much to complain about. 7.1 track sounds good, commentary tracks are quite interesting, especially the one with the effects people.
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General : Matroska / 12.6 GiB / 2 h 7 min / 14.1 Mb/s
Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@High / 13.0 Mb/s / 1912 x 1036 pixels / 1.85:1 / 23.976 FPS / *Default
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 778 kb/s / 8 channels / 7.1 remaster / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 144 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary & introduction by director Francis Ford Coppola / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 157 kb/s / 2 channels / 1993 archive commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola, VFX director Roman Coppola, and special makeup FX artist Greg Cannom / English
Text #1 : VobSub / 6.4 kb/s / English
Text #2 : VobSub / 7.6 kb/s / English SDH
Text #3 : VobSub / 323.0 b/s / English for non-English audio and on screen text
Text #4 : VobSub / 5.3 kb/s / French
Text #5 : VobSub / 6.3 kb/s / Spanish
Text #6 : VobSub / 16.8 kb/s / English for director's commentary
Text #7 : VobSub / 15.8 kb/s / English for 1993 archive commentary
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:05:45.178 : Chapter 2
00:12:28.373 : Chapter 3
00:23:15.227 : Chapter 4
00:35:33.214 : Chapter 5
00:37:45.263 : Chapter 6
00:43:38.282 : Chapter 7
00:48:04.757 : Chapter 8
00:54:35.856 : Chapter 9
01:08:08.876 : Chapter 10
01:12:22.797 : Chapter 11
01:17:45.369 : Chapter 12
01:23:17.993 : Chapter 13
01:35:31.434 : Chapter 14
01:48:19.868 : Chapter 15
01:55:28.630 : Chapter 16
Source information
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Encoded from Bram.Stokers.Dracula.1992.BluRay.Remux.1080p.AVC.TrueHD.7.1-HiFi.mkv
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