Different versions


I was just watching this on BBC2 and noticed a few changes. The death scene has a split second extra-- I presume this is the recovered footage and it's great. However Dracula biting Mina is different from the scene I'm used to; I have the Warner Bros Region 1 DVD and the camera stays on Dracula until he pushes Mina onto the bed (they go out of shot and then it cuts to the owl). In the version I just saw the camera focuses on Mina instead and you see Dracula almost about to bite her. Is this the new cut or is this just the British cut? I guess it's slightly more explicit (though he still doesn't exactly bite her) but I thought the scene I'm used to is actually more sexual as you don't see him simply biting her (leaves more to the imagination I guess)

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The new footage was recovered from an old uncut print located in the Japanese Film Archive and re-inserted for the recent Blu Ray release and obviously last night's showing on BBC2.

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I was quite surprised this version was on last night as only just came out on blu ray not long ago.

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