He makes a game try at the English accent, but it’s off just enough to strike a very false note. Then, for contrast, we meet Jonathan Harker, played by Keanu Reeves. I’ve never liked Renfield as a character, but at least by getting Tom Waits to do it, you’ve got something out of the ordinary. I think he did the famous painting that ends Raiders of the Lost Ark, the huge factory full of crates, along with many others.įast foward four hundred years, and we meet the mad, insect eating Renfield, played by Tom Waits. They’re from Mike Pangrazio, one of the masters of matte painting, who worked a lot for Industrial Light and Magic before starting his own company, Matte World, and now, I believe, works for Weta Digital. It really does look like an ‘artful’ solution to a lack of budget to stage a decent ruck.īut there’s some gorgeous matte paintings on show – not that the Sky broadcast and VHS recording does it particular justice. The shadow puppet representation of Vlad’s battle is slightly less successful, though. I do like Oldman’s armour, bright red and textured to look like exposed muscles. It starts with a prologue showing how Gary Oldman’s Vlad the Impaler turns his back on God after his wife dies. Then, we get a movie that everyone remembers, and got well reviewed, but which I remember not liking very much, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. This tape starts with the end of an Armand Assante movie called Fever.
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