Genre Research #2


Genre Research: Dracula: Dead and Loving It


   “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” (1995) is a comedy that spoofs vampire or Dracula movies. The opening of the movie sets up the danger of Dracula in the movie as it starts with a skit of an elder village woman telling protagonist Thomas Reinfield to take a cross as protection from the monstrous vampire. During the course of the skit, the women uses her throat to make funny noises as she speaks and tells Reinfield to “take the damn cross” on the third attempt to decline the gesture. The shot reverse shot is used throughout the conversation to go back and forth between the characters. The actual opening credits is of Reinfield traveling as the sun sets and the opening credits have major actors, directors, producers, writers, and of course, Mel Brooks. This flick had a budget had a $30 million and made a putrid $10.7 million in the box office. It was also panned critically. However, this movie was useful for learning how the genre treated the vampire subject with their movie as well as where to avoid such failures.

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