BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992 Theatrical Trailer)

This is the theatrical trailer for the 1992 gothic horror feature "Bram Stoker's Dracula", adapted from his 1897 novel.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather" Saga, "Apocalypse Now"), the movie was released though Columbia Pictures and Coppola's production company American Zoetrope on November 13, 1992.

In 1462, Vlad the Impaler (Gary Oldman) returns from a victory in his campaign against the Ottoman Empire to find his wife Elisabeta (Winona Ryder) committed suicide after his enemies falsely reported his death. The priest tells him that his wife's soul is damned to Hell for committing suicide. Enraged, Dracula desecrates the chapel and renounces God, declaring he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness. He then stabs the chapel's stone cross with his sword and drinks the blood that pours from it.

In 1897, solicitor Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) takes the Transylvanian Count Dracula as a client from his colleague Renfield (Tom Waits) who has gone insane and is now an inmate in Dr. Jack Seward's (Richard E. Grant) insane asylum. Jonathan travels to Transylvania to arrange Dracula's real estate acquisitions in London. Jonathan meets Dracula who finds a picture of his fiancée Mina Murray (Ryder in a dual role) and believes she is the reincarnation of Elisabeta. Dracula leaves Jonathan to be fed upon by his brides, while he sails to England with boxes of Transylvanian soil, taking up residence at Carfax Abbey (which he has recently bought), with Renfield's ravings foretelling his arrival.

In London, Dracula emerges as a wolf-themed creature amid a fierce thunderstorm and hypnotically seduces, then bites Lucy Westenra (Sadie Frost), with whom Mina is staying while Jonathan is in Transylvania. Lucy's deteriorating health and behavioral changes prompt former suitors Quincey Morris (Bill Campbell) and Dr. Seward, along with her fiancé Arthur Holmwood (Cary Elwes) to summon Dr. Abraham Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins), Seward's teacher, who recognizes Lucy as the victim of a vampire. Dracula, appearing young and handsome during daylight, meets and charms Mina. When Mina receives word from Jonathan — who has escaped from the castle and recovered at a convent — she travels to Romania to marry him. Upon hearing of this, a heartbroken Dracula furiously transforms Lucy into a vampire, and Van Helsing, Holmwood, Seward and Morris kill the undead Lucy the following night before she can feed on a young girl.

After he and Mina return to London, Jonathan and Van Helsing lead the others to Carfax Abbey, where they destroy the Count's boxes of soil. Dracula enters the asylum, where he kills Renfield for warning Mina of his presence. He visits Mina, who is staying in Seward's quarters while the others hunt Dracula, and confesses that he murdered Lucy and has been terrorizing Mina's friends. Confused and angry, Mina admits that she still loves him and remembers Elisabeta's previous life; at her insistence, Dracula begins transforming her into a vampire. The hunters burst into the bedroom, and Dracula claims Mina as his bride before escaping. As Mina changes, Van Helsing hypnotizes her and learns via her connection with Dracula that he is sailing home in his last remaining box. The hunters depart for Varna to intercept him, but Dracula reads Mina's mind and evades them. The hunters split up; Van Helsing and Mina travel to the Borgo Pass and the castle, while the others try to stop the gypsies transporting Dracula.

At night, Van Helsing and Mina are approached by Dracula's brides. Mina succumbs to their chanting and attempts to seduce Van Helsing. Before Mina can feed on his blood, Van Helsing places a communion wafer on her forehead, leaving a mark. He surrounds them with a ring of fire to protect them from the brides, then infiltrates the castle and decapitates them the following morning. Dracula's carriage arrives at the castle, pursued by the hunters. A fight between the hunters and gypsies ensues. Morris is stabbed in the back during the fight and Dracula bursts from his coffin at sunset. Jonathan slits his throat with a kukri knife while the wounded Morris stabs him in the heart. As Dracula staggers, Mina rushes to his defense. Van Helsing and Jonathan allow her to retreat with the Count. Morris dies of his wound, surrounded by his friends.

In the chapel where he renounced God, Dracula lies dying in an ancient demonic form; he and Mina share a kiss as the candles adorning the chapel light up and the cross repairs itself. Dracula reverts to his younger self and asks Mina to give him peace. Mina thrusts the knife through his heart and as he dies, the mark on her forehead disappears as Dracula's curse is lifted. She decapitates him and gazes up at a fresco of Vlad and Elisabeta ascending to Heaven together, finally reunited.