When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Professor Van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the Count.
Most probably my least favourite film, both of Mel Brooks (though I haven't seen 'Life Stinks' yet) and of Leslie Nielsen (though I refuse to watch any other of the post-'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun' knockoffs he's made over the years since), but it still doesn't deserve all the hate. It's STILL at least 50,000 times funnier than Lena Dunham's 'Tiny Furniture' (or about 70% of the so-called contemporary American comedies made these days).
Nielsen has done better, but this movie is good enough to be enjoyable and mildly funny.
This comedy, starring Leslie Nielsen and intelligently directed by Mel Brooks, is truly good. It is a parody of old horror movies, in which Dracula is an aristocratic undead who lives off the blood of unsuspecting humans. The film is more directly inspired by the old productions of Hammer Studios and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, which was still recent when the film was released. The script is, therefore, similar in every way to the last film I mentioned.
Nielsen is perfectly capable of putting up with the film effortlessly, with a generous dose of good humor, charisma and spirit. The actor is a veteran of cinema comedies and satire, we've...
Amusing parody of Dracula with Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks and Harvey Korman
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) is a Mel Brooks spoof of the Dracula story with the same fun style and goofy humor of Young Frankenstein (1974) and Spaceballs (1987). Unlike "Love at First Bite" (1979) with George Hamilton, the story doesnt take place in the modern day, but is basically a silly redo of the first half of Bram Stokers Dracula (1992) along with bits from other Dracula flicks.
With Nielsen as the protagonist, you cant help but think of The Naked Gun movies. Meanwhile Steven Weber is effective as Harker and Peter MacNicol hams it up as Renfield.
The presence of the stunning Amy Yasbeck brings to mind Brooks previous film, Robin Hood: Me...