I have to admit, it's something new to Dracula or even vampire movies. But really?
shareI agree. W.T.F.
The part in the teaser with the wolf scarring off the other wolves was pretty cool though....
part in the teaser with the wolf scarring off the other wolves was pretty cool though....
I think that was one of the more foolish changes. People today barely seem to remember Dracula can take wolf, bat, and mist form. Use the old classics. They had practicality for mobility and stealth. There is no practical purpose for turning into a seven foot tall mantis.
From film to film, whenever Argento tries to break out of cliche and does something unprecedented, a host of viewers get all up in arms because he's not doing what everyone else does.
shareArgento says "I wanted to insert something original, so that the audience could recognize it as a Dario Argento movie. I then thought: Dracula is a creature that could mutate into a wolf, a bat and even into fog, so why couldn’t he transform also in a insect? So my Dracula will metamorphose into flies, a rat, a giant mantis and even a spider!"
shareI don't necessarily have a problem with the Mantis...but i hope he's shown changing into mist and a bat too so what Stoker wrote is in there aswell.
From film to film, whenever Argento tries to break out of cliche and does something unprecedented, a host of viewers get all up in arms because he's not doing what everyone else does.
Though Dracula adaptions themselves have been lacking in the mist/wolf/bat transformations (or a decent script , good acting , yadda yadda but I digress). As I am sitting and watching Fright Night , Fright Night II & the Fright Night recent remake and they make much use of the transformations as do many others. It is odd that the actual Dracula films have neglected it. Especially with CGI being light years ahead of the old , but charming , rubber bat on a fishing line of Bela Lugosi's or Christopher Lee's days even.
share
Buffy was the only show I've seen implement computer effects to make the bat transformation. There are good practical bat and wolf effects in Frank Langella's Dracula from 1979.
The insect is actually called the "praying mantis" because of the way it holds its front legs in a position suggesting prayer.
shareI have to admit, it's something new to Dracula or even vampire movies. But really?
I've seen a lot of dracula/vampire movies, but that was probably the most out of place and ridiculous thing i've seen. I mean what the hell, a giant praying mantis stumbling up the stairwell. Either that was an inspired bit of lunacy or Argento has lost his marbles.
[deleted]