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directed by Mina Shum...
...Director Mina Shum will be present at both screenings...
...taste of medicinal worthiness. That would be too bad. It is full of stirring things the adult half-remembers and lovely oddments (Thomas A. Edison's diary in which he records that he was almost run over by a trolley because he was thinking fondly of his wife Mina) and entirely too much sentimental doggerel and the forced marches of Edgar Guest ("All this a baby costs, and yet/ His smile is worth...
Yoseph Choi embodies Count Dracula, with his gaunt pale face and glittering eyes. Gus Gardner is also particularly convincing as the suspicious Professor Van Helsing, called upon by Dr. Seward to examine his "anemic" daughter Mina. Gardner's Van Helsing lacks the grisly humor of some incarnations, yet he makes up for this in the sharp intentness he brings to his confrontations with his Transylvanian neighbor...
Unfortunately, the other comic stars of this production are inadvertantly so. Monica Ferrell as Mina and Chris Cocks as her fiance John are so excrutiatingly bad, they are wonderful. Granted, it would be hard to overcome the handicap of their particular roles, bland characters who speak tritely at best. Yet John's sullen sneer is so completely out of place, and Mina's cooing sweetness rings false. Ferrell. only comes to life when she sheds the veneer of pure innocent for that of vampire seductress...