Happy, happy, HAPPY GIRL!
I am SO happy right now. I just got an e-mail from BBC America announcing that "Count Dracula" the 1979 BBC production starring Louis Jourdan is being released on DVD on September 25th. That is the production that started my whole vampire fetish and 13-years as a vampirologist. To me, Louis Jourdan will always be THE Dracula, in part because he got to say many of Stoker's best lines that got cut from the other versions. This production has never been available before on video in any format and all I have is a poor copy taped off PBS with the best bits cut out. (I learned years after seeing it that my favourite scene was cut from the U.S. release due to complaints and I only saw it at all because I watched it first on Canadian television.) Words cannot express how happy I am right now. I literally jumped out of my chair and started bouncing around the room screaming when I read it. Good thing I'm in back doing telephone reference and not on a public desk.
I already pre-ordered it from my local Borders, along with the DVD of Jekyll, as this new version of Hyde is my current, fictional, completely evil, non-human object of lust. Yes, yes, I know I have a type. I can't help it. The BBC just knows how to make villains yummy.
I already pre-ordered it from my local Borders, along with the DVD of Jekyll, as this new version of Hyde is my current, fictional, completely evil, non-human object of lust. Yes, yes, I know I have a type. I can't help it. The BBC just knows how to make villains yummy.