SOURCE: "Blood Sell," in Times Literary Supplement, January 8, 1993, p. 14.

In the following review. Showalter discusses the vampire genre and Coppola's version, concluding, "More about coffers than coffins, this Dracula will neither join the canon of vampire classics nor enrich Coppola's artistic reputation."

"There is not a theatre in Paris without its Vampire!" a French critic exclaimed in 1820; and London and New York might say the same today. From Francis Ford Coppola's new Dracula to John Landis's sexy Innocent Blood, from Nigel Finch's stylish updating of a nineteenth-century German opera by Heinrich August Marschner for BBC2, and Shimako Seto's melancholy Tale of a Vampire (shot in Deptford library, Chiswick and Rotherhithe), to Mark Morris's startling ballet, everybody's doing that Transylvanian rag. Vlad the Impaler, an adaptation of Marin Sorescu's play, The Third Stake, was broadcast on Radio 3 in November 1992, and the latest title in Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles", The...