The Hard Dracula

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Movie
Original title The Hard Dracula
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Peter Horak
script Peter Horak
production Peter Horak
music Ivan Koutikov
camera Mark Morris
cut David Avallone
occupation

The Hard Dracula is an American horror film directed by Peter Horak in 1999.

action

Not far from the village of Dubova in Moravia , Count Dracula has been up to mischief for hundreds of years . Barely 90 years ago, the young Sonia, who fled from King Richard and his men in Dracula's castle at the turn of the century, disappeared and was bitten by him.

While water skiing, the young Julia drowns in the present, which leaves her friend Steven in grief. When a shooting star falls, he wishes that a drowned woman could rise from the dead, and in fact, the drowned Carla in Dubova wakes up miraculously, and she looks very similar to Julia. People in the village believe in a miracle, but Carla is suspiciously avoided by most of the villagers. Meanwhile in the USA, the grieving Steven decides to go on a trip to Europe, which should take him to Moravia. His mother gives him a cross pendant because she knows that there are still dark powers in Moravia.

Steven first visits Prague before setting off for Moravia. On the way he has a car accident and ends up in Dubova, where he collapses in Carla's father's pub. Carla nurses him back to health; Steven realizes that his wish brought her back to life. Meanwhile, Carla's friend Dana disappears washing clothes by the river. Only bloody clothes remain and the men of the village realize that Dracula must have been active again. The men in the pub plan to put Dracula down for good. They bring the vampire hunter Doctor Van Helsing into the village, who was just in Prague for a reading. Van Helsing appears and Steven is the only one who wants to stand by him in the fight against Dracula. Dracula appears as a guest in the pub and Van Helsing tests him to find out if he's a real vampire . Since Dracula shrinks from garlic bread , its authenticity has been proven. Steven in turn meets Dana shortly afterwards, who reveals herself as a vampire, but Steven is not allowed to bite, since only Dracula is the hunter in the vampire family.

Steven and Van Helsing now go to Dracula's castle several times to kill the vampire. Neither a shot with a silver bullet nor a five-point lead to the death of the vampire. Throwing a grenade only destroys Dracula's violin. Meanwhile, Steven and Carla get closer, Steven makes her a successful marriage proposal and gives her the cross that his mother had given him. Nevertheless, Dracula kidnaps Carla from Steven's bedroom. She can ward off the vampire with the cross for a while, but in the end she cannot prevent him from biting her. Steven and Van Helsing fight again with Dracula, are initially chased away and finally let him go up in flames in another attack. Dracula seems defeated, but shortly afterwards Van Helsing and Steven are bitten by the vampires - besides Carla and Dana also Sonia - and thus also become vampires. Dracula also survived, so that later everyone will play music and dance together in Dracula's castle.

production

Střekov Castle, where the film was set
Hotel Corinthia, formerly the Forum , a location for the film

Hard Dracula was the directorial debut of the Czech Peter Horak, who until then had mainly worked as a stuntman in film. The film was in the 1998 Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles turned. Most of the scenes were made in the Czech Republic , including Prague - u. a. in front of the Letiště Václava Havla Praha airport as well as in front of and in the Hotel Corinthia Prague ( Hotel Forum Praha in the film ) - and in the Sedletz ossuary . Dracula's castle in the film is actually Střekov Castle near Ústí nad Labem .

The hard Dracula was released on video in the US in September 1999 and was released on DVD in the US in June 2004. A publication in Germany is pending (as of March 2015).

criticism

Steve Miller included Die Hard Dracula in his 2010 book 150 Movies You Should Die Before You See . The worst thing about the film, he counted the acting performance of Denny Dinge as well as the performance of Peter Horak, who turned a funny idea into a film that literally contained all aspects of a bad film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Die Hard Dracula ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on indiereign.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indiereign.com
  2. Peter Horak on imdb.com
  3. The Hard Dracula . In: Steve Miller: 150 Movies You Should Die Before You See . Adams Media, Avon 2010, pp. 125-127.