Gorey Dracula

[JERI0K]

Where's the car chase scenes????

[meijinproductions]

@JERI0K Ah good point! I had to cut them for brevity.

[kdj29]

awesome! - Seattle, WA.

[TVWriterGuy]

5 years after you posted this and you're still getting admirers! Cheers from Long Beach, CA....hope we see more from you!

[RobbyArt]

oh this is so cool. I wish I would have thought of that first. :D

[BHallBrowser]

WONDERFUL!! I'm sure Mr. Gorey would be impressed.

[pizzaparty978]

Cute!

[MrFalconford]

Don't read this. Museums/Galleries (although not all) are vampires and the employees are slaves to the tomb. That's what I got out of it. Thankyou for the posting.

[coaxqueen]

It's funny! and a very enjoyable score, such a great idea mix the b minor sonata with the story =)

[Creissels]

Charming animation. You captured the spirit of the story!

[rainbeaux19]

"You've watched too much Buffy" XD bahahahahaaaa! ! ! !

[RavenHouseMystery]

Great job recreating the look and feel of an old silent movie. Edward Gorey's artwork is amazing and you made excellent work out of what I believe was a puppet/activity book from the 1970s. Love the music and the film's grainy look.

[falstaffswims]

Dick Van Dyke as Count Dracula.

[lunaticorthelover]

Dick Van Dyke? XD I wouldn't trust him with that accent...

This is really cute, though, I really liked it!

[batmanpt5]

BRAVO!

[brendantellsall]

What is the music?

[blueczarina]

that was awesome. i loved it. i especially liked the "you've watched too much Buffy" bit.

[VIPassasain]

hahaha i read a book that follows this story callled vampires is that where you got it from?

[sarahisavampire]

Very funny and cute! Didn't Dracula die not from a stake, but from a Bowie knife?

[LuthkCroon]

hey nice one : )

i do love it.

[jackkoffin1]

This is awesome!

[LeighAnne112087]

I loved it! :D

[scardino1958]

Brilliant and funny

[EldritchMask]

Bravo.

Brilliant!

[suffering44]

well you should improve the scripts , the art of writting script in my opinion is to write them with a art not just like how we speak (including big words)

[meijinproductions]

Avast! I fear I may not achieve such linguistic dynamism as yourself.

[suffering44]

hey I didnt say that to put you down, I said that because its the problem with todays cinema scripts, it lacks the real art. I think literacy art is important to make a movie with words beautiful.

You must describe poeticaly things more then the movie will be rich with art. But it depends on the art of the movie, but for play like movies like yours its good to have good scripts.

[MrBSylvester]

@meijinproductions Great job, dude! Suffering44 is blowing manure out his mouth. Wonderful job, and I love the Gorey set!! Your script was fine.

[MrBSylvester]

@suffering44 Ahh...an alleged professional here to teach us all. I'll pass. If you can't compose a sentence correctly with proper punctuation, how do you know how to write scripts?

[kris2703]

Absolutley silly and charming. Thanks.

Don't agree with your choice of Tom Cruise but then we all have our off-days. ;)

Keep up the good work.

[gb42760ad1972]

That was fantastic! Loved every minute of it.

Good job!!! I'm glad to see there are more Dracula fans out there besides me.

[asiai9019]

I didn't like it.. but 2 blurry tho i enjoyed it a li'l good job I SAY !!!!

[ahordeofrebelangels]

I played this piece on the piano

it's amazing!!

[notesalvespr]

Great work! You are an artist!

Thanks a lot for sharing with the world and keep on creating!

[peabody66]

I didn't say enough in my last comment. This movie reminds me a lot of the 1922 movie "Nosferatu." It has the look and the feel of an expressionist movie. I really love the grainy black and white visual style and the music. You can't ask for anything else in a Dracula movie.

[burzorz]

A very beautiful work! Thank you very much.

[peabody66]

This video's cool! It has the look and feel of how a Dracula movie is meant to be. I have some problems though. Dracula never has any lines and the ending's a bit confusing. Great movie though!

[Raflin00]

Bravo!!! BRILLIANT, I say!!!! HURRAH!!

[girly5692]

that was good, but just too blurry. it does add to the feel, but the lines can get distracting

[AnthonyJDBurns]

I love stop motion... but the most amusing factor of all are your wonderful "casting decisions". If only... ;)

[dramamajor]

Great job! I really enjoyed it.

[ProsperitySnow]

Not bad, but lots of misspelled words & grammatical errors, plus"focus on" is a modern phrase. Nice visual style and score. With a litte more attention to detail this could have even better.

[meijinproductions]

Cheers, yeah it could have been better if I had spent more than a couple of evenings doing it for a joke

[Mumzzen]

"You've watched to much buffy" LOL!!

[nonconformingascanbe]

this was great!!! gz!!!

[tortillademaiz]

LOL! Good job :9

[crazymess66]

thats cute, and silly and interesting all at the same time.

[thevirtuallabb]

cute.

[xThePhantomsAngelx]

YOU ARE VERY STUPID, where is mina mina is one of the most important actors bram stokers dracula. as a professional mina playing actress I would know, you creation is not the true story, for mina murray is also in it you stupid person, dont make something and claim it to be real, until you get it right. GET MINA!

[meijinproductions]

Well, it might not be entirely accurate, but you do have Peter Bowles, so you can't really complain.

[mnoe817]

it is rather harsh to criticise a 4-minute adaptation for condensing the story.

you are very clever and this is charming.

please let me (or somebody) be a proofreader next time you use subtitles!

[meijinproductions]

Thanks. Yeah well, I put "true" story as a joke really. The copy was done by my friend after reading the synopsis supplied with the theatre set, I can't vouce for its accuracy at all. I made the film in a couple of evenings, and probably introduced the typos and spelling mistakes, oops. Didn't imagine 10,000 people would be watching it! Maybe I should do more?

[mnoe817]

you should definitely do more. any story that seems like it needs a piano accompaniment. that covers a lot of territory. try to have peter bowles in all of them -- he's always good.

[hennoxxx]

fantastic

[LUrabbi]

I really really liked this. You managed, with some cardboard and and paper cutouts, to make me laugh, gasp, and be drawn into a classic terrifying tale. Well done. And about the music... is it possible you could send the file to me?

[achillesblood]

Simply Amazing

[Backfromthedeadguy]

Loved it!

[yitoj]

that is so stupid! You have problems!

[meijinproductions]

I do, more than you realise

[WhiteWine1763]

perfect vid! wonderfully done! i love silent films. ^_^*sigh

[ffarff]

this was perfectly done. music, atmosphere and everything to fit the Gorey cutouts.

[Billyatehiscat]

I love the combination of two great pieces, beautifully done.

[sakka0]

This was SO awesome! Wonderful work! *applaud!!!* I have a question-- what was the final song in the piece? wonderful. :)

[meijinproductions]

The music in the opening and final sections are both excerpts from the same piece by Rachmaninoff - Cinq morceaux de fantaisie: No. 2 Prelude in C sharp minor (Bells of Moscow) as mentioned above. Its a particularly sombre piece mimicking the sound of tolling bells.

I am glad to so many people like the animation and are asking about the music. I made the animation a couple of years ago for fun and decided to put it on YouTube as an afterthought, at which time I added the soundtrack.

[AMradioFM]

THANK YOU. THANK YOU for making this. I love Edward Gorey and I love Rachmaninoff. The music pieces fit really well for the Dracula theme. It's really creative. Love it!

[AMradioFM]

What's the name of that piano piece at the start of the video? I think I heard it from The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Great job! It was a very Gorey idea!

[meijinproductions]

Its actually pieces by Liszt and Rachmaninoff all hashed together. Liszt stuff includes excerpts from Hungarian Rhapsody, Don Juan, and a Paganini Etude. As for Rachmaninoff there are parts from Prelude in G minor, and Morceaux de Fantasie (Bells of Moscow). Personally I prefer Rachmaninoff's concertos to solo piano pieces, I am a fan of big orchestral noise!

I recently discovered that my great grandmother used to play piano in the cinema for silent movies!

[AMradioFM]

The music really brings the Gorey in this film. That's a funny thing about your Grandma, and I bet it's no coincidence.

[meijinproductions]

The opening piece is Rachmaninoff "Morceaux de fantaisie"

Also known as Prelude No. 1, 'Bells of Moscow'

[gollum42]

That was fantastic! A great idea! Heheh, stop motion and silent films are a perfect match for Edward Gorey! Awesome awesome!

-CAP

[kafka33]

Thanks for doing this I love Edward Gorey's work!