Yes, there is a long blurry section in the color version, but the desaturated version is razor sharp during this same section! I recommend you just turn up your color on the desaturated version. It looks much brighter and sharper. The color version looks like something they found in someone's...
I love the color in the new release. It has a golden and mauve color scale, but what I don't understand is that it is so soft as to be almost blurry. The desaturated version is razor sharp. Hmm. Don't understand it. It also has an intro by the director John Badham who says they just...
When I think of this film, I think mostly of the scene where Mina is discovered in the cave after she is dead and is first revealed in the puddle of water. I never had any trouble with that because it was explained that she wasn't yet a full vampire or something like that. (***SPOILER...
My favorite Dracula film after the 1931 original. I saw it in its original theatrical release and loved the color and was disappointed to see the desaturated home video releases. It has a conflicted history because it was filmed in vivid color but the director requested they desaturate it for...