Dracula: Dead and Loving It
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a 1995 movie directed by Mel Brooks. It is a parody of the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, and the various screen versions of the novel.
It is not considered to be among Brooks' best work.
It stars Leslie Nielsen as Dracula, Peter MacNicol as his sidekick Renfield, with Steven Weber as Jonathan Harker and Amy Yasbeck as Mina Murray. Brooks himself appears as Dr. Abraham Van Helsing.
Memorable quotes
Lover at Picnic: Would you care for some wine?
Dracula: I never drink wine... oh, what the hell. Let me try it. It's good!
Jonathan Harker: She's alive?
Van Helsing: She's Nosferatu.
Jonathan Harker: She's Italian?
Dracula: Renfield, you were having a nightmare.
Renfield: A nightmare? But it was so real, so vivid. Two voluptuous women, heaving and grinding. How to describe it. [pause] Have you ever been to Paris?
Dr. Seward: Allow me to introduce Professor Abraham Van Helsing. He's a doctor of rare diseases as well as a man of theology and philosophy.
Van Helsing: And gynecology.
Dr. Seward: Oh, I didn't know you have your hand in that, too.
Dracula: Children of the night... What a mess they make.
Jonathan Harker: Please, Lucy! I'm British!
Lucy Westenra: So are these.