Dracula (2006)
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| Directed by | Bill Eagles |
| Produced by | Trevor Hopkins |
| Written by | Stewart Harcourt Bram Stoker |
| Starring |
Marc Warren Rafe Spall Stephanie Leonidas |
| Music by | Dominik Scherrer |
| Cinematography | Cinders Forshaw |
| Edited by | Adam Recht |
| Distributed by |
BBC Granada Television WGBH Boston |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Dracula is a television adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, produced by Granada Television for WGBH Boston and BBC Wales in 2006. It was written by Stewart Harcourt and directed by Bill Eagles.
Arthur Holmwood attempts to cure the syphilis with which he was born and which also caused the death of his father. Arthur receives his diagnosis soon after becoming engaged to Lucy Westenra. He contacts an occult group called the Brotherhood, which is being led by a man named Singleton. The Brotherhood claims that it can clean his polluted blood, but for a price.
Lucy's best friend is Mina Murray. Mina's fiancé, Jonathan Harker, has just passed his solicitor’s exams. Arthur hires his firm to convey several properties of England, and Jonathan will bring the documents to Count Dracula in Transylvania. Not so long after Jonathan leaves, his boss is murdered and all documents about the transaction vanish. Singleton calmly confesses the deed, telling Arthur the "young man" will never return from Transylvania.
In Transylvania, Jonathan meets Dracula, but survives only long enough to attract Dracula's attention to Mina. Energized by Jonathan's blood, Dracula is soon en route to England aboard the Demeter. A newly married woman, Lucy watches the wreck of the ship as it arrives in a storm. Then Lucy and her friend Mina visit Holmwood Castle in Whitby so they can comfort each other.
The Demeter seemingly contains nothing but its dead captain and some cargo. Mina and Lucy both meet a stranger, Count Dracula, at a nearby graveyard. Arthur, enraged to find Dracula in his home (invited by Lucy for dinner), finds himself powerless as Lucy suddenly falls victim to the vampire. Arthur's old friend, Dr. Seward, is suspicious when Arthur refuses to take Lucy to the hospital. Arthur then forces Seward at gunpoint to give her a blood transfusion. Lucy later dies and Seward is convinced Arthur is responsible for her illness.
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