Mina is dead (Dracula 1979)

[methylethyldeth]

Breathe (slap) Breathe!! (slap)(slap) BREATHE! Thank goodness we have CPR now.

[blicksflicks]

For some reason, back when I was 8 years old in 1979, Mina looks so much hotter in the abandoned mine. lol

[SupernalOne]

this scene was horrible, but what really tore my heart was when the undead Mina attacks her father Dr. Van Helsing as he seeks her in the abandoned mine, and he impales her - and she looks him in the face and gasps "Papa!" as she dies -- Laurence Olivier's masterful protrayal of VH's aghast & stricken reaction, his overwhelming grief and shock at destroying his own beloved daughter, made me sob in sympathy. This was my favorite version of Dracula, in spite of the weak ending - Langella rules!

[castletriglav]

Weak ending, yes. The worst ending of any Dracula film. It ruins the entire film.

[randomdave30]

"Oh my God papa, she's dead...!"

Ah, an' she fucken deserved it, useless upper-crust toff no good to anybody

[ChainsmokingPothead]

is there a sequal to this movie anyone?

[SupernalOne]

don't die, Mina, don't die!! Breathe Mina, breathe! Just try to breathe! If you've fogotten what to do, just follow my instructions! Here, I'lll smack your face, that'll clear the obstruction! We're Victoriam, so none of that mouth-to-mouth vulgarity that they use in the City! Oh - too bad, you're dead...well, we get a lot of that around here -- hmm, care for a bracing glass of laudanum, my dear? Pip pip!

[johnthedarkwingduck]

The Papa looks vaguely like John Williams... (who did an excellent job with the film, by the way).

[bookkeeper57]

So damn amateur: when someone is choking, you don't slap them in the face.

[LIVIOll]

The undead Mina is fucking terrifing

[Josh3B]

Totally agree. Between her and that kid at the fucking window in Salem's lot, vampire's used to scare the hell out of me. Before, I mean, they all started being sexy and wearing tight black leather.

[MURPHYCHACHO]

And before Twilight came along and made them sparkle. God I hate that series.

[cynthiacher]

I didn't much care for either film version of Salem's Lot. Neither one of them did justice to the book. I did like the floating child vampire in the first one and the actors who played Mark and Dud Rogers in the second one were very good. I thought Rob Lowe was incredibly inadequate as Ben. And the first SL had Barlow as a wordless blue Nosferatu, absolutely nothing like the suave Master Vampire in the book. Both the movie version Strakers were also ridiculous.

[cynthiacher]

I, for one, was never a fan of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer". In that show, vampires seemed almost, well, NORMAL. They drank beer. They smoked cigarettes. They looked totally normal and were for the most part, very, very attractive. And they could have sex like any human could. How COUlD they? How can you get an erection if you're dead. And Buffy passionately FRENCH KISSED the studly male vampires Angel and Spike. Vampire breath thoughout history is said to be absolutely revolting.

[cynthiacher]

The undead Mina is this rather silly version of Dracula is probably the most revolting, terrifying looking vampire I've ever seen in a vampire movie and I've seen LOTS of vampire movies.

[trence5]

Yeah, the way the did her with shadows and glowing, beady red eyes actually creep ed me out.

[bluemountain555]

Do you have a video of the undead Mina later on in the movie?

And a flaw was that Mina offered the right part of her neck to Dracula, yet the two penetrations on Mina are on her left side.