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Interviews About the Vampire, `Dracula'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19921115
Author:Peter Keough

NEW YORK Films about Dracula are like Democratic administrations - every other decade or so, another one rises from the dead. Long after stakes have been driven into their hearts, they're back again at the nation's jugular.

Days after Bill Clinton reclaimed the White House, Francis Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (which opened Friday) prowls the movie theaters. What is it that draws our culture back to the realm of the undead?

"It seems that vampires surface to take in anyone who will listen to them when times are tough," suggested James V. Hart, the screenwriter whose previous credits ...

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