gothic horror romance films were released in the 1990s. Gary Oldman's portrayal of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula helped include new staples to the character such as long hair and a more prince-like appearance opposed to a Count-like one. Pornography The character of Dracula has been an inspiration throughout the history of pornographic film in various high and low budget productions. The character is usually represented either emphasizing the combination of sexual and dangerous aspects of the character. Dracula and Dracula parodies would continue to appear in pornography as production on these films moved from theatres, to home video to the internet. Dracula often appeared in various sexploitation and hardcore adaptations from the 1960s onward. In these films, Dracula is not always exclusively heterosexual or male. During these periods, pornography films would often parody popular genres leading to Dracula making brief appearances in pseudo-documentary films like Kiss Me Quick! (1964) and later in narrative sexploitation films like Dracula, the Dirty Old Man (1969) and Sex and the Single Vampire (1970). Dracula would appear in the early hardcore pornography film Dracula and the Boys (1969) which is the first homosexual vampire in film. Television TV adaptations Dracula has been adapted for TV several times, with some adaptations taking many liberties and others trying to stay faithful more or less to original source. Thames Television's (UK) anthology series Mystery and Imagination ran a Dracula episode based on the book in 1968. It featured Denholm Elliott as Dracula. In 1971, Hrabe Drakula directed by Anna Procházková (the first adaptation to be directed by a woman), was broadcast on Czechoslovakia television. It was reasonably faithful to the novel, except for the exclusion of Renfield. It was the first adaptation to show on screen blood-exchange scene between Dracula and Mina. Ilja Racek played Dracula. CBC-TV's (Canada) anthology series Purple Playhouse featured an hour-long adaptation, Dracula based on the book in 1973. It starred Norman Welsh as Dracula. In 1973, Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Jack Palance, was produced by Dan Curtis, best known for producing the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, and who worked from a script by sci-fi favorite Richard Matheson. Filmed in Yugoslavia and England, it was relatively faithful to the novel, though it tried to paint Dracula as a tragic, rather than evil, character in search of his lost love. It also drew the connection between Dracula and the historical figure of