Dracula: Dead and Loving It(1995)

Most probably my least favourite film, both of Mel Brooks (though I haven't seen 'Life Stinks' yet) and of Leslie Nielsen (though I refuse to watch any other of the post-'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun' knockoffs he's made over the years since), but it still doesn't deserve all the hate. It's STILL at least 50,000 times funnier than Lena Dunham's 'Tiny Furniture' (or about 70% of the so-called contemporary American…

Reviewed on September 28, 2016

**Nielsen has done better, but this movie is good enough to be enjoyable and mildly funny.** This comedy, starring Leslie Nielsen and intelligently directed by Mel Brooks, is truly good. It is a parody of old horror movies, in which Dracula is an aristocratic undead who lives off the blood of unsuspecting humans. The film is more directly inspired by the old productions of Hammer Studios and Francis Ford Coppola's…

Reviewed on August 14, 2022

**_Amusing parody of Dracula with Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks and Harvey Korman_** “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” (1995) is a Mel Brooks spoof of the Dracula story with the same fun style and goofy humor of “Young Frankenstein” (1974) and “Spaceballs” (1987). Unlike "Love at First Bite" (1979) with George Hamilton, the story doesn’t take place in the modern day, but is basically a silly redo of the first half of…

Reviewed on March 21, 2023

Mel in top form Mel can get misses, but this is him at his peak. The movie gets hold of the source material, injects the whimsy of Mel, and then pours on Leslie on top to make the best vampire-sundae you can imagine. The lines are flying, the absurdity seems logical within context, and noone is slacking. The effect-work, something which was never the focus, is also working well for what it is supposed to do, and…

Reviewed on June 16, 2026