Dracula’s Backstory | Bram Stoker’s Dracula | Creature Features

Francis Ford Coppola’s gothic epic opens with Vlad Dracula’s (Gary Oldman) tragic romantic backstory as his wife Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) commits suicide thinking her husband dead. Watch Now: Don’t forget to ‘Like’ this video and subscribe to the Creature Features channel: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins star in director Francis Ford Coppola’s visually stunning, passionately seductive version of the classic Dracula legend. In BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance, he creates a modern masterpiece. Gary Oldman’s metamorphosis as Dracula who grows from old to young, from man to beast is nothing short of amazing. Winona Ryder brings equal intensity to the role of a young beauty who becomes the object of Dracula’s devastating desire. Anthony Hopkins co-stars as the famed doctor who dares to believe in Dracula, and then dare