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{{Infobox film
| name           = Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest
| image          = Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest poster.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Film poster
| director       = Michael Feifer
| producer       = 
| writer         = Michael Feifer
| based_on       = {{based on|"[[Dracula's Guest]]"|[[Bram Stoker]]}}
| starring       = Amy Lyndon<br>[[Wes Ramsey]]<br>[[Andrew Bryniarski]]
| music          = Andres Boulton
| cinematography = Charles Haine
| editing        = Leaf Baimbridge
| studio         = North American Entertainment, Barnholtz Entertainment
| distributor    = 
| released       = {{Film date|2008|08}}
| runtime        = 82 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}
'''''Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest''''' (also known as just ''Dracula's Guest'') is a 2008 film that was written and directed by Michael Feifer. It was released [[direct to video]] in August 2008 and is loosely based on [[Bram Stoker]]'s short story "[[Dracula's Guest]]".<ref>{{cite book|title=Dracula in Visual Media|date=2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786462018|page=78|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32-FBgZ1Ct4C&pg=PA78 |access-date=20 June 2014}}</ref>

== Plot ==

The story opens showing a young man finding a young woman he knows behind bars, having been imprisoned and raped. He swears to get her out and the scene cuts to six months earlier. The young man is Bram Stoker and he has a relationship with Admiral Murray's daughter, Elizabeth in Victorian England. He works in a real estate company and has just given his career a boost by finding a home for the firm's new client, Count Dracula. The Admiral is not impressed with Bram and insists he and Elizabeth observe a year's separation to test their love before he'll give his blessing to their marriage. Bram accepts and leaves to begin his year but Elizabeth is rebellious and runs off, presumably to find Bram in Scotland. She gets waylaid by the Count at the train station where he abducts her to his home in Transylvania. Bram's friend Malcolm rushes to find Bram and tell him about the abduction but is caught and killed by Dracula at Stoker's apartment. He had told his business to Mrs. Withen the landlady, before he died so Bram was able to get the information he needed and rushed off to her rescue. He is accosted twice on the road to the Slovak region, once in France and the second time in Germany on Walpurgisnacht. Meanwhile, the Admiral is also on his way to rescue his daughter. We come again to the scene where Bram finds Elizabeth imprisoned in her underground chamber and he then begins a death-defying climb up the side of the mountain to where he can enter the castle. He challenges the Count to a fight in which he is clearly outmatched and when the Count abandons him the Admiral catches up to Bram in the mausoleum. He sends the young man on to find his daughter, while he searches for Dracula. The two older men meet up in front of the dungeon grating shortly after Bram finds Elizabeth and fight. The Admiral wins in spite of taunting by the Count and the scene fades out.

==Cast==
* [[Amy Lyndon]] as Mrs. Witham
* [[Wes Ramsey]] as [[Bram Stoker]]
* [[Andrew Bryniarski]] as [[Count Dracula]]
* [[Kelsey McCann]] as Elizabeth Murray
* [[Dan Speaker]] as Admiral Murray
* [[Ryan Christiansen]] as Malcolm
* [[Caia Coley]] as Mrs. Murray
* Thomas Garner as Mr. Quartermane
* Robert Smith as Johann
* [[Maya Waterman]] as Shanty Woman
* [[Stan Bly]] as Pierre
* [[Robert William Madrigal]] as Dracula's Carriage Driver
* [[Nino Simon]] as Herr Delbruch
* [[Andy Parks]] as Conductor
* [[Daniel Bonjour]] as German Captain

==Reception==
Critical reception has been predominantly negative.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tatum|first1=Charles|title=Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (review)|url=http://www.efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=22875&reviewer=325|publisher=eFilmCritic|access-date=20 June 2014}}</ref> ''[[Dread Central]]'' and ''[[DVD Talk]]'' both rated the movie negatively,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Felix|first1=Justin|title=Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (review)|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/34129/bram-stokers-draculas-guest/|publisher=DVD Talk|access-date=20 June 2014}}</ref> and ''Dread Central'' remarked that although Feifer "tries really hard on his minuscule budget to recreate the look, talk, and manner of a Victorian era vampire movie - not an ounce of it feels authentic, like an old PBS production by way of The Asylum".<ref>{{cite web|title=Dracula's Guest (review)|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/draculas-guest-dvd#axzz359gLrID4|publisher=Dread Central|access-date=20 June 2014}}</ref> ''[[DVD Verdict]]'' panned the movie overall, stating that while they won't call it "the worst movie ever" it was "certainly a contender".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pritchard|first1=Paul|title=Dracula's Guest (review)|url=http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/draculasguest.php|publisher=DVD Verdict|access-date=20 June 2014}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|1196618}}

{{Adaptations of Dracula}}

[[Category:2008 films]]
[[Category:Dracula films]]
[[Category:Films set in castles]]
[[Category:2008 English-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Michael Feifer]]

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