Trivia / Dracula: Dead and Loving It

• Awesome, Dear Boy: Lysette Anthony took the role of Lucy just to work with Mel Brooks.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $30 million. Box office, $10,772,144. The movie was left to die in a sea of other underperforming movies during a crowded Christmas 1995 season.
• Creator Killer: After a string of flops in The '90s, this film proved to be the last nail in Mel Brooks' prolific cinematic coffin, and he would move into musical theater a few years later. Considering that most of his acting parts were ones he'd written for himself into his own films, it also drove a stake into his acting career, save for a few voiceover roles.
• Enforced Method Acting: Steven Weber had no idea how much blood was going to be splattered on him during the "staking Lucy" scene. Look closely and you can see him trying not to crack up.
• Fake Brit: Most of the cast. Of the main cast, Lucy is the only British character played by a British actor (Lysette Anthony).
• Mid-Development Genre Shift: Steve Haberman and Rudy De Luca had been writing a serious horror script titled 'Not Human', and kept thinking of parodic scenes. They ended up compiling their ideas into what became this script.
• Missing Trailer Scene: The trailer has a shot of the 'daymare' scene where Dracula says "it's good to be dead", but it doesn't appear in the film.
• Real-Life Relative: Anne Bancroft, who was married to Mel Brooks, plays the Romani woman Madame Ouspenskaya.
• Throw It In!: Steven Weber ad-libbed "she's dead enough" after staking Lucy's corpse.
• What Could Have Been:
  • An early idea was to have the movie in black and white, as they had done with Young Frankenstein. They opted not to, citing how most of the more famous Dracula movies had been in colour. They then used the Hammer movies as a visual inspiration for this one.
  • Kelsey Grammer was offered the role of Dracula.

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