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Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest | 
 enlarge | Director: Michael Feifer
Actors: Andrew Bryniarski, Wesley A. Ramsey, Kelsey Mccann
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 71685
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 86 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: LGED23723D
UPC: 012236100072
EAN: 0012236100072
ASIN: B0019K4YSO
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: August 5, 2008
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Product Description
This follows the story of two young lovers bram & elizabeth. Dracula kidnaps her & takes her to his castle while bram sets out across europe to rescue his true love. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Pg
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| Customer Reviews:
 Very good movie November 6, 2008
Sam Booksmith
I totally disagree with the other reviews here. I think I read that this was made with a budget of less than $2 million; so, give the producer a break! Wes Ramsey does a great job of being "Bram Stoker." But Andrew Bryniarski is brilliant as Dracula. How does he do it? Here you have an overweight Count Dracula, a big fat guy. When you first see him you think there is no way he can pull this off, but he does. In fact, he not only pulls it off, he becomes your mental image of Dracula forever more! Yes, the movie is a little cornball with some bad attempts at "Shakespearian acting" here and there, but very engaging and entertaining. Trust me. If you are a vampire fan like me, you will enjoy this production.
Note to self- check reviews first! September 17, 2008
H. N. Dohe (My Sanctum Sanctorium)
Gawd, what an awful movie. There, that's out of the way. The other reviewers have done a fair job at explaining why this movie is bad (LOW budget effects, didn't follow the original story much at all, etc). But what really puzzles me is why they hired Andrew Bryniarski to play Dracula. Up until now, most of us horror-philes agreed that the chubbiest vampire on record was Lon Chaney Jr's "Son of Dracula" (which I liked in spite of Chaney's being a well fed vamp). Bryniarski has about 100 pounds on Chaney. Tall? Gaunt? Corpselike? No way- this Drac's been to the "all you can eat" buffet. Now I gave it two stars because I did like the period costumes. I mean, I had to find something redeeming in this film, eh? But the others are right- rent it if you must, but if you buy it, you'll be using it as a drink coaster after you watch it.
 One of the worst September 2, 2008
M.R. Loisel (Birnamwood WI)
I give this movie one star for Wes Ramsey (Bram Stoker) who I kept wishing, as he was running across Europe, would run into a better movie. He was the one bright spot in the whole thing. There was only one segment out of Stoker's short story, and that was Bram being chased by the dog (a Rottweiler) which should have been a wolf(couldn't they even get a German Shepherd to be a fake wolf?) and then rescued. Andrew Bryniarski was one of the most unappealing Draculas I've ever seen. To the writer's credit, they did try to insert a bit from Stoker's book for Dracula to say, his speech where he's talking about himself: "we have a right to be proud...the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland, etc.", but it was so garbled you could hardly understand what he was saying. He practically threw that speech away, he rushed through it so quickly. And to be a bit picky-when was this movie set? Costumes were from the 1850s-90s. Women's hair was all wrong, they NEVER wore it loose during these years. And the French people in the cabin talked about the Bastille and the Revolution. Just how old were these people if it was even set in 1850? I agree with another reviewer about the Count's castle being a mausoleum?? uh-huh. Also, Dracula scorned Stoker's use of mortal weapons but later didn't seem to mind picking up a sword to fight Admiral Murray. And for the record, Bram Stoker's wife's name was Florence. If you don't know anything about Stoker or Dracula, the book or short story and just want to watch a vampire flick, you might not mind it. However, if you do, this movie is just irritating because it could have been SO much better, so just skip it.
A waste of film August 12, 2008
W. Routson (Whiting,N.J.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is without a doubt the most boring version of the Dracula legend I've ever seen Andrew Bryniarski is the worst actor to date to play the legendary blood sucker his on screen persona makes Dracula look more like a supernatural date rapist than the prince of darkness the whole story tells parts of the original tale completely out of sequence and adds parts that clearly don't belong. The pace of the movie is horrible I found myself falling asleep and having to back up to the last part I had seen on at least three occasions the director did a terrible job the movie looks like it was filmed with video equiptment and looks bad oddly some of the sets looked good but I seriously doubt that Dracula lived in a mausoleum every film I've seen has clearly shown the castle to be in ruins for the most part as you would expect since it's owner was dead and had not been lived in let alone kept all spiffy clean.
The phoney accents used by the actors are annoying and the over use of voice overs would make Morgan Freeman run out screeming in the night.
And whats up with those people in the cabin and the freaks looking in the window all in all this movie makes no sence.
It makes you wonder who would release such a piece of junk untill you remember seeing the Lions Gate logo at the beginning of the flick, Lions Gate just doesn't care what they release they're killing the genre one movie at a time sure every now and then they release a good one but they release more garbage than a chinese resteraunt.
Don't buy it, Don't rent it if you have to see it wait for it to be showed on the Sci-Fi channel although it might be too crappy even for them.
What can I say? July 6, 2008
John Crawford
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
"Dracula's Guest" is a prelude to "Dracula," it is a shame that they didn't follow the original story line becuase this would have been a great movie.
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