Director: Francis Ford Coppola
1992
This was a hugely successful film in 1992, earning $215 Million worldwide and drawing on the growing goth fad. Based on Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, first published in 1897 and adapted by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.
Story: In 1462, following a bloody battle against the Turks, Vlad returns to discover his love, Elisabeta, has committed suicide after a false report of his death. In anger, Vlad renounces God and gives himself to the powers of darkness.
Centuries later, in 1897, a young clerk, Jonathan Harker, is sent to travel to Transylvania to close a property aquisition from the Count Dracula, who is purchasing 10 properties in London. Dracula entraps Jonathan in his castle and then leaves to London to seduce Jonathan's fiance, Mina, whom he believes is the reincarnation of his lost love, Elisabeta.
Gay Factor: Small bits of veiled homoeroticism (much more obvious in the book); 2 girls kissing twice in the film; In the 90's there were vast unconfirmed rumors of Keanu Reeves being bisexual. Keanu Reeves starred in Gus Van Sant's gay film, My Own Private Idaho.
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