Dracula: Dead and Loving It
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| Directed by | Mel Brooks |
| Produced by | Mel Brooks Executive: Peter Schindler |
| Screenplay by | Mel Brooks Rudy De Luca Steve Haberman |
| Story by | Rudy De Luca Steve Haberman |
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Dracula characters by Bram Stoker |
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| Music by | Hummie Mann |
| Cinematography | Michael D. O'Shea |
| Edited by | Adam Weiss |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States France |
| Language | English German |
| Budget | $30 million |
| Box office | $10.7 million |
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| Soundtrack album by Hummie Mann | |
| Released | 1996 |
| Genre | Film Score |
| Length | 36:09 |
| Label | Castle Rock Entertainment |
Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a 1995 satirical comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Leslie Nielsen. It is a spoof of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, and of some of the films it inspired. As of 2016, this is the most recent film Brooks has directed.
Brooks co-authored the screenplay with Steve Haberman and Rudy De Luca. He also appears as Dr. Van Helsing. The film's other stars include Steven Weber, Amy Yasbeck, Peter MacNicol, Harvey Korman, and Anne Bancroft.
The film follows the classic Dracula (1931), starring Bela Lugosi, in its deviations from the novel. Its visual style and production values are particularly evocative of the Hammer Horror films. It spoofed, among other films, The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
Solicitor Thomas Renfield travels all the way from London to "Castle Dracula" in Transylvania to finalize Count Dracula's purchase of Carfax Abbey in England. As the stagecoach driver refuses to take him any further, Renfield continues on foot despite turning back.
Renfield meets Count Dracula, a charming but rather strange man who is a vampire. He then casts a hypnotic spell on the highly suggestible Renfield, making him his slave. Dracula and Renfield soon embark for England. During the voyage, Dracula dines upon the ship's crew. When the ship arrives and Renfield, (by this time raving mad in the style of Dwight Frye), is discovered alone on the ship, he is confined to a lunatic asylum.
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