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‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest’ Adaptation in August
The compelling saga of the mysterious Count Dracula continues in the frighteningly romantic vampire film BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA’S GUEST, which arrives on DVD August 5th from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The film is based on Bram Stoker’s short story “Dracula’s Guest,” which was published in 1914, two years after Stoker’s death. Initially part of Stoker’s original Dracula novel, “Dracula’s Guest,” was excised by the publisher due to the books length. Read on for a synopsis and the DVD art.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest follows the story of two young lovers, Bram and Elizabeth. The couple is forced by her father, the Admiral Murray, to take time off from their relationship in order to determine whether their love is true. Meanwhile, the Count Dracula is in London searching for a new home and comes across Elizabeth at the train station after she has run away from her father’s overbearing ways. Dracula proceeds to kidnap Elizabeth to settle an ancient dispute with the Admiral. When Bram learns his friend Malcolm was killed by Dracula on his way to inform him of Elizabeth’s kidnapping, he sets out across Europe to rescue his true love.
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After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.