That kid probably needed years of therapy after this. Being about 9 when this came out, I was extremely disturbed by this scene and when Dracula fed the baby to his concubines
"A moments courage and it is done". I've said that to myself at various times in my life when I've had to deal with unpleasant things. That's all it takes really, a moments courage. I still hate getting blood drawn though. 😂
Piece of movie trivia: the sequence from 1:22 to 1:31 is in reverse. It was actually recorded with Lucy waking up, going out from the coffin and walking forward while Van Helsing is walking backwards. Then later they reversed it.
Marc Þeawes I think it's "Exeloume" listed in the credits, Not appearing on the OST. It sounds to me like a tweaked, hyper-creepy arrangement of "Mina's photograph" Since it's listed right after "love song to a vampire" in the credits, Exeloume could possibly be the piece of music played after Dracula dies on the altar, but I'm pretty sure that's called Ascension.
Dudes, I don't think it was intended to be a song for the soundtrack - I remember in the book, when Stoker introduces the brides, he says that they had a laughter that was like a tinkling of glass or something. Either way, yeah, creep city. Added with that makeup, sweet Jaysus.
A particularly fabulous costume from Eiko Ishioka, who deservedly won the Oscar for her incredible designs. Makes Lucy look like a cross between a wedding cake and a venomous lizard.
@@Mostie-ev7oh it's a frustrating movie precisely because it has so many brilliant horror elements and so many major plot and acting goofups. The definition of mixed bag.
I like how well they get vampires here , an unclean thing from the outer dark. They might be beautiful In a cold sort of way but it's a mask hiding something truly terrible.
That music and the way she's walking down the stairs, the candles lighting by themselves, on top of the blood in her mouth, her hissing, her eyes, and her paleness, freaking terrifying😨😱
@@jovembonita2804 I never noticed that until today. They hear her singing first and look over before they see her coming down stairs. Also the singing stops once they call her name and she drops the child !
This is still THE ABSOLUTE BEST dracula/vampire movie EVER made. WOW, the acting and the demonic references that accompany the characters are spot on. Crap, this is terrifying!
Most hideous wedding dress ever. So godawful that if I hadn't read the book and known that Lucy was buried in her wedding dress, I wouldn't have even known that was what it was supposed to be - she looks like a cross between the Flying Nun and Elizabeth I
It was clear in the film that it was her wedding dress. Do you recall the one doctor visiting her when she was being fitted....and the look of horror on his face.
Sadie Frost nailed this. I've seen the documentary and it took them a long time to make this particular scene since the child was so scared, kept crying and didn't want to be cuddled by her. I mean look at her. with all the makeup and that eerie gown, it's a childhood nightmare. Well done.
Easily one of the most horrifying scenes I've ever seen in my horror movie watching career. This is a scene that I can only watch during daylight hours.
I love the reverse frames as she clambers back into the coffin, the soft yet eerie tones as she comes down the steps with the crying child, still beautiful, but there's something dark and cold, just something not quite right about her demeanour, that’s creepy and disturbing done right.
Fun fact: Lucy wasn't suppose to calm down the little girl. The girl was terrified from Sadie Frost's makeup and the latter did that to calm her down, and Francis just threw it in.
Sometimes, it feels like this is the last movie that actually made vampires scary. Everything about this scene makes them seem so demonic and terrifying. I almost never get scared by stuff from horror books or movies, which is why vampires are my favourite movie monster. When done well, they can make me imagine just how afraid I'd be if I were in that scene.
@@paulmccoy5396 yes I like the way they made this movie in a spooky kinda way . Vampires floating towards the window and those creepy flashy eyes and how they move slowly before the kill it still gives me the creeps
@Caped Critique that's my favorite too... Very realistic on how they make the audience believe theirs no god to protect us unless we sacrifice our own lives so others may live is very realistic ..
Loved this movie one of the best I've seen even by today's standard's though I did like Christopher Lee when he was Dracula back in the old classics to lol.
RA; You are very right!!! However, Hammer films have created all sorts of stories, based on Dracula. They will not let him rest!!! I think this version, is the best ever made!!! Please reply to me, this film version seems closest to Bram Stokers book.
Yeah, I liked how they showed Jonathan, Seward, Holmwood and Quincey all displaying courage in different ways. None of them wanted this fight, but they all stepped up.
This is an amazing scene - the atmosphere ,costume, makeup, effects Shes so cool looking and the actress aced the character - one of my favorite vampire performances 1:15 GOD is this awesome, how she cowers at the cross and slithers back into her coffin, slowly resets, closes her eyes - thats great - i wonder if they filmed it backwards the costume designs in this movie are phenomenal they truly make the characters feel supernatural and creepy
I love how he screams the formulas of exorcism in Latin. Van Helsing was Dutch and a Catholic in the book, he actually brings the sacred Host from Holland to defeat Lucy
@@watermelonlalala No, he didn’t. She didn’t do that in the book, and none of them got that close to her anyway, only when she was asleep in her coffin.
@@tonyv7603 those of course are technically prayers but it’s my understanding that the Catholic Church calls them, more precisely, “deprecative formulas” of the exorcism ritual.
I love how they filmed the part where she retreats to her coffin. She is actually climbling out of the coffin, but they then had the footage played backwards for those eerie, unnatural movements. They did the same thing for the vampire window scenes in Salem's Lot 1979 to chilling effect. So much more effective than cgi. God I miss eerie, otherwordly vampires Also apparently the eerie music we hear at the beginning is Lucy "singing" a lullaby for the toddler. Chills...
I always found it scary when Lucy just turns around at the sound of her name, but insensitively drops the child on the floor. It's goes to show how she is not human anymore and lacking in moral consciousness. A much more realistic depiction of vampires.
I consider this scene a masterpiece of the horror genre, a vampire with her miserable life crawling in the night with an innocent child to feed on, towards her grave. And that somber background music, what a monstrous sensitivity of the director, there couldn't be a more suitable sound for such a disconcerting scene. That's what I always talk about, and what vampire movies are always missing, in addition to the horror, it lacks drama, the sadness, the miserable life to which the vampire is condemned, the eternal hunger for blood and the eternal sadness for his sad life. fate. This lucy scene I think is brilliant, it synthesizes all of this, I still lack words to describe how brilliantly terrifying it was thought and staged. only a genius like Francis Ford Copolla could delve so deeply into the macabre misery of these creatures. I never get tired of watching this scene! 😊
@Gary York I did. It's a worthless piece of literature full of contradictions. Oh, and by the way, if you actually bother looking into the details (yet I know that most of you do not), you will find that God is the evil one and not Satan.
