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Let a new 'Dracula' seduce you
By MOLLY GLENTZER
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

Bring out the garlic and crucifixes. A seductive new Dracula flies into town this weekend, and it could suck the resistance from even the most jaded cineastes.

It's the Houston premiere of Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary -- a film that mesmerizingly stews a silent-movie format with a few well-placed sound effects, an abundance of stylized camera work, excerpts from Gustav Mahler symphonies, gothic opulence, high-camp melodrama and ballerinas in toe shoes.

Yes, I said ballerinas — but don't you dance-o-phobes run away screaming just yet.

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