Dracula: Dead and Loving It movie storyline. Solicitor Thomas Renfield travels all the way from London to “Castle Dracula” in Transylvania to finalize Count Dracula’s purchase of Carfax Abbey in England. As the stagecoach driver refuses to take him any further, Renfield continues on foot.
Renfield meets Count Dracula, a charming but rather strange man who is a vampire. He then casts a hypnotic spell on the highly suggestible Renfield, making him his slave. Dracula and Renfield soon embark for England. During the voyage, Dracula dines upon the ship’s crew. When the ship arrives and Renfield, (by this time raving mad in the style of Dwight Frye), is discovered alone on the ship, he is confined to a lunatic asylum.
Meanwhile, Dracula visits an opera house, where he introduces himself to his new neighbors: Doctor Seward, (the lunatic asylum’s administrator and head psychiatrist, who is obsessed with prescribing his patients enemas), Mina (Seward’s nubile daughter), Jonathan Harker (Seward’s assistant and Mina’s fiance), and Lucy (Seward’s equally nubile ward). Dracula flirts with Lucy and, later that night, enters her bedroom and feeds on her blood.
Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a 1995 satirical comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Leslie Nielsen. It is a spoof of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, and of some of the films it inspired. As of the start of 2017, this is the most recent film Brooks has directed.
Brooks co-authored the screenplay with Steve Haberman and Rudy De Luca. He also appears as Dr. Van Helsing. The film’s other stars include Steven Weber, Amy Yasbeck, Peter MacNicol, Harvey Korman, and Anne Bancroft. The film follows the classic Dracula (1931), starring Bela Lugosi, in its deviations from the novel. Its visual style and production values are particularly evocative of the Hammer Horror films. It spoofed, among other films, The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Directed by: Mel Brooks
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber, Mel Brooks, Amy Yasbeck, Lysette Anthony, Harvey Korman, Mark Blankfield, Chuck McCann, Cherie Franklin
Screenplay by: Mel Brooks, Rudy De Luca, Steve Haberman
Production Design by: Roy Forge Smith
Cinematography by: Michael D. O’Shea
Film Editing by: Adam Weiss
Costume Design by: Dodie Shepard
Set Decoration by: Jan Pascale
Art Direction by: Bruce Robert Hill
Music by: Hummie Mann
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for comedic sensuality and gore.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: December 22, 1995
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