Director Tom Huston Orr said the production is a touching love story, despite its horrors.
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The Awakening
OK, to be honest, I kind of loved it. Based on arguably Bram Stoker’s second most famous novel, 1903’s The Jewel of Seven Stars, the movie casts Charlton Heston (Soylent Green) as Matthew Corbeck, just the kind of greedy, selfish archaeologist who unearths warnings of evil to be loosed upon the world, yet digs anyway. […]
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There will be blood
The University of Oklahoma’s University Theatre opens its season with “Dracula,” a visually stunning and well-acted production of Bram Stoker’s classic novel. The one thing holding the production back is William McNulty’s adaptation, designed to bring a more contemporary horror film sensibility to bare. In this telling, the play opens with the arrival of Dr. […]
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Dracula: The Vampire and the Voivode
In other words, it’s more than a little dry, and a lot like watching a slideshow. Instead of being a first-class treatment of its undeniably interesting subject, it can’t afford standard doc fare like film clips, so it settles for scrolling over movie posters for anything not in the public domain, leaving us with grainy […]