Dracula - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[fred]

Francis Ford Coppola and the special effects team consulted with a professional magician to achieve the effect of Dracula's brides rising up from the bed.

[frederick]

Winona Ryder said that what attracted her to the script was the fact that it's a very emotional love story. According to Ryder Mina, like many women in the late 1800s, had a lot of repressed sexuality, everything about women in that era, the way those corsets forced them to move, was indicative of repression and to express passion was freakish.

[nora]

Gary Oldman and Francis Ford Coppola sometimes publicaly clashed with each other on the set over creative choices, e.g. the appearance of young Dracula in this movie.

[kenneth]

Diamanda Galás provided vocal effects for the three brides of Dracula.

[brent]

Fifth Francis Ford Coppola movie for Tom Waits, after One from the Heart (1981), The Outsiders (1983), Rumble Fish (1983), and The Cotton Club (1984).

[camila]

The name Dracula is borrowed from Vlad the Impaler, but the character of Dracula is never identified as being Prince Vlad in Bram Stoker's novel. Though he does identify himself as Prince Vlad in this movie, the historical Vlad lived in the fifteenth century.