Which Dracula Film is Most Faithful to the Book?

[Music] good stories are worth retelling such as Bram Stoker's Dracula about the undead count who moves from Transylvania to London to seek fresh new blood since its publication in 1897 it has popularized the vampire myth lasting throughout the generations branching from literature to films TV and video games it even seems to have inspired modern horror trends like walking into an unfamiliar creepy place doctors being powerless to stop an illness or possession and heroes joining forces to hunt down an evil being it's no stretch to say the book Dracula is like the holy gospel of horror fiction not forgetting Frankenstein Dracula being the supernatural one in Frankenstein being more scientific there is no Dracula film adaptation that copies the book exactly if there was it would probably be at least 20 hours long of course movies usually omit or change things as they see fit to better suit the cinematic medium and to better appeal to the audience's of the time but regardless wouldn't you like to know of all the Dracula films counting theatrical TV and direct-to-video which one follows the book the closest oddly it seems there's no universal consensus every form I've read turns it into a debate based on personal opinion but this isn't meant to be a subjective question I want to know which one is most faithful to the book not what's everybody's favorites curiosity overcame me and I decide to do the digging myself watching the films and cross-examining them with Stoker's original text in a mission to determine which one contains the most source material and the least amount of drastic departures there exists probably hundreds of Dracula films most of them have hardly anything to do with the book so first we must filter them out the Monster Squad is an example of a film that has Dracula in it but is not trying to follow the book then there's Mel Brooks's Dracula dead and loving it which actually does follow many events from the book but its primary purpose is comedy in son of Dracula the count takes the form of mist in Dracula Prince of Darkness he makes Mina drink his blood and in scars a Dracula he climbs on the castle wall these are all very specific elements from the book but otherwise these films have almost nothing to do with it also they were made as installments in a series in short were not counting the 3 s's sequels spin-offs and spoofs so which ones are actually up for the test I've been able to narrow it down to 12 movies the Dracula dozen the titles don't offer much distinction 5 are called Dracula to say Count Dracula 3 include the name Bram Stoker and many have multiple titles so as I introduce them I'm gonna have to assign them nicknames the first is Nosferatu the silent version from 1922 even though it's an unofficial adaptation and changed many things such as the characters names to avoid a lawsuit it still follows the basic story and is the oldest surviving relic to have done so no nickname needed next from 1931 is the first sound versions two of them both titled Dracula made by Universal Studios filmed simultaneously one for english-speaking audience the other for spanish-speaking audience each with different actors the English version is famous mostly for Bailey Lugosi so I'll call it the Lugosi version the other has carlos vela arias but it's commonly known as simply the Spanish version I'll refer to them together as the universal versions even though they're not the only ones produced by Universal from 1953 is an extremely rare one from Turkey based on a novel of its own that was basically translated from Stoker's it's called Dracula in Istanbul but is usually called the Turkish version from 1958 is the first color version starring Christopher Lee made by Hammer Studios it was originally called Dracula but the united states have became horror of dracula i'll just call it the hammer version from 1970 directed by hay-zu's Franco is another one starring Christopher Lee but in no way is it connected to the Hammer films it was a Spanish German Italian British production and had too many titles around the world account in the States I always knew it as Bram Stoker's Count Dracula but I'll call it the Franco version from 1973 is the made-for-tv version which had its airdate delayed until 74 it was a British production directed by Dan Curtis and starring Jack Palance as Dracula it was originally called Bram Stoker's Dracula shortened to just plain Dracula in the States nowadays on video streaming services it usually comes up as Dan Curtis as Dracula but since I find Jack Palance to be a more familiar person I'll call it the Palance version from 1977 is another British TV version produced by the BBC it was called Count Dracula but we'll call it the BBC version from 1979 is the other universal version starring Frank Langella titled just plain Dracula ha let's call it the Langella version also in 1979 is the remake of Nosferatu directed by Verner Herzog starring Klaus Kinski who funny enough played Renfield in the franco version but now he's been promoted to playing Dracula it was a German production shot in two languages in one version the actors speak German and the other they speak English but otherwise it's the same exact movie it's not like the universal versions where they use different actors different directors and were shot differently here it's almost identical originally it was called Nosferatu phantom of the night and had several titles but seems to most widely be known as Nosferatu the vampyre either way we'll call it the nos ferati remake from 1992 is yet another Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Gary Oldman directed by Francis Ford Coppola this was a huge big-budget lavish production widely recognized in the mainstream even though it made such a big claim to the stoker name I will always call it co+ Dracula at last from 2006 we have another BBC version you'd think by now they'd get a little more creative with these titles but it's as bland they come Dracula let's call it the BBC o6 version now that I've introduced the Dracula dozen let me reiterate there exists plenty of other Dracula films these are just the ones I find to be worthy contenders as being the most faithful to the book and it's always possible another rare undiscovered one can turn up later the Turkish version for example I didn't find out about until the last minute let's start by looking at the most drastic departures we know that each film takes its own liberties inventing its own material that was never in the book in Nosferatu an entire plague happens killing the population of a town and there's a chase scene through the streets where the crazy maniac Renfield is on the loose in both the classic Universal versions its Renfield who travels to Transylvania to sell a property to Dracula where originally it was Jonathan Harker there's also an added comic relief character Martin in the Turkish version the setting of 1890s London is changed to 1950s Istanbul and the character Mina is turned into a showgirl in the hammer version character relationships are switched originally Mina is married to Jonathan and Lucy is engaged to Arthur but here Mina is married to Arthur and Lucy is engaged to Jonathan just to be confusing Lucy is now Arthur's sister and also Jonathan is hunting Dracula from the beginning and poses as Dracula's new librarian and on top of that Jonathan is turned into a vampire and is killed or destroyed by Van Helsing in the Franco version there's a scene where the heroes are attacked by taxidermied animals Renfield obeys a command by Dracula to kill Mina and Van Helsing has a stroke in the pound's version Dracula considers Lucy to be the reincarnation of his dead wife and Dracula's explained to be the same historical figure as Vlad the Impaler contrary to popular belief that connection was never explicitly made in the book even though Dracula's backstory had similarities in the BBC 77 version Mina and Lucy are sisters Arthur and Quincey are combined into a hybrid character and there's a bunch of weird video effects in the Langella version Lucy and Mina are switched lucy has a romance with Dracula van Helsing uses a horse to locate Mina's grave Dracula kills van Helsing and there's weird laser effects consulted by James Bond title designer maurice bender in the Nosferatu remake Lucy and Mina are again switched for some reason in 1979 that was just a thing van Helsing is a non-believer who knows nothing of vampire lore and Jonathan Harker becomes a vampire Coppola version really takes the cake it makes an explicit connection to Vlad the Impaler as if taken cue from the Palance version it has a huge opening introduction explaining Dracula's origin which has nothing to do with the book Mina attempts to seduce and kill Van Helsing Renfield was Jonathan's predecessor in the real estate business the costumes and production design are heavily exaggerated Dracula has a baboon's butt on his head he draws a sword on Jonathan has a romance with Mina considers her the reincarnation of his dead wife again drawing similarities to the Palance version and they try to make Dracula sympathetic in the BBC O six version arthur has a disease that eats away at his skin he seeks a cure from an occult leader named singleton who's working for Dracula Arthur points a gun at dr. Seward forcing him to perform the blood transfusion on Lucy Dracula kills both Jonathan Arthur and in the final shot Dracula is still alive I didn't even get into all of Dracula's different deaths yet but I will the point is each version has its share of deviations we could probably keep adding to the list with no clear answer when a stop and that's where I'm beginning to see the project's can be a little subjective if we're going to pick a winner I think we'll find more value in adding up what elements the film's do include from the book so here's what we'll do we'll give each film a point for every character and event included and the film with the most points wins for now we'll put aside the deviations and bring them up again only as a deciding factor in the event of a tie or to help confirm in a close race okay let's start with the characters it's important to note that nos farhat - and the Turkish version changed all the names within Oscar ah - you might have seen it with the regular names because when I was translated from German to English and all the title cards were switched out the altered names were switched to their regular names and that became the public domain version which was most common for a while so to clarify we're not looking for the exact names we're looking for the roles if you can recognize the character it counts now let the competition begin keep your eye on the score if you'd like and place your bets Renfield is usually included he's only missing from the Turkish hammer Palance and BBC oh six version the Turkish version has a hunchback servant with a very phony mustache he's never in an asylum or fits the character in Nosferatu he was originally named NOK in the - classic Universal versions Renfield does over time taking over the role of Jonathan only for the Transylvania scenes Jonathan Harker is in all across the board in Nosferatu he's called hunter in the Spanish version he's called Juan in the Turkish version he's called as me in the hammer and Langella versions he's engaged to Lucy instead of Mina Mina is in all them in Nosferatu she's called Ellen but in the English translation she's Nina in the Spanish version she's Eva in the Turkish version she's Guzan in the Langella version an Oscar Otto remakes she's named Lucy even though the role is clearly Mina in the nos Farhat to remake there's a separate character named Mina who is extremely minor appearing in one brief talking scene and later as a dead body Lucy appears in all of them except for both nos ratu's the original Nosferatu has a character named Ruth who was switched to Lucy for the English version but she's too minor and not connected to the character in the Turkish version she's named Sudan and the Langella version has already stated she switched to Mina Arthur Holmwood first appeared in the Turkish version named Tehran after that he was pretty regular appearing in Hammer Franco Palin's Coppola BBC oh six in the Franko version they call him Quincy even though he's engaged to Lucy and seems to mostly fit the Arthur role also the original BBC version as already mentioned combines him with Quincey Morris even merging their names Quincey Homewood is he more Quincey or more Arthur it's pretty equal and I can't give two points for one hybrid character so half a point Quincey Morris the least favorite character apparently BBC gets the other half point here but Coppola is the only version to have the real character way to go Coppola dr. Seward is in most of them he's missing from Palance and Nosferatu remake and in Hammer he's way too minor it's just a quick walk-on role and with no Renfield for him to interact with you'd never know it's him except for the name in Nosferatu he's professor severs in Turkish he's dr. a thief and in BBC oh six they just call him by his first name John but you also have Jonathan Harker so why on earth would you call him John dr. van Helsing is in all of them except the original Nosferatu there's a minor character named professor Buller for the English version they changed him to Van Helsing but he does absolutely nothing important of course he can't have a Dracula film without Dracula so he's always there I could give away an easy point for all but that makes no difference either way so let's take a step further which one stays true to Dracula's physical appearance in the book he's described as an old man with a moustache well do you see the moustache nope nope nope nope nope yes nope nope nope nope nope nope a dozen Dracula films and the only one where Dracula actually looks like Dracula is the Franco version big gold medal for Franco now let's get into the other elements from the book first the castle is depicted in every film so that's a wash I guess some of them use actual locations which makes me beg the question why not a single one of them not even for a quick exterior shot used a famous romanian location like ponary or bran castle in the book dracula d ages as he obtains fresh blood he gets younger a simple make-up effect and nobody wanted to do it except for Franco Coppola and BBC oh six Dracula turns into a bat this happens in all except Nosferatu hammer and Palance hammer even says explicitly that Dracula changing into a bat is a common fantasy but everything else that happens is perfectly believable the Turkish version has the most hilarious bat and Coppola has the most exaggerated Dracula turns into a wolf or a large dog this happens in Lugosi though it's off screen with Franco I'm not sure if the dog in the picture is Dracula it's a random shot that comes out of nowhere and the dog has a collar but they mentioned Dracula can change into a wolf so it counts in Palance a dog gets shot down and dies so it can't be Dracula BBC Langella and Coppola all get a point however Coppola is again is pretty far out there Dracula can turn into mist Spanish BBC Langella Coppola all get a point simple Dracula can climb walls like a lizard first happens in Turkish then BBC Langella and Coppola done Dracula has no reflection in the mirror both universals BBC Langella and Nosferatu remake and Coppola with Palance I'm really not sure the scene gives nothing to indicate that Dracula has no reflection every film explains that Dracula can only sleep in his native soil which I've always wondered wouldn't he be all thirty Dracula's repelled by a cross or crucifix pretty classic it's in all of them except Nosferatu and Turkish garlic another classic repellent it's used in Turkish hammer pounds BBC Langella and Coppola Lugosi switches it for Wolfsbane and Spanish has an unspecified wreath of flowers the word garlic not being used the sacred wafer used many times in the book but only shows up in three of the films Bibi see Nosferatu remake and Coppola here's a shocker in the book Dracula's cited outside in the daytime that's right sunlight does not kill him it only weakens his powers and Nosferatu there is a shot where he's out in the day which you may think is a flub or a contradiction to the film's ending where he's killed by sunlight but it was actually a day for night shot filmed that day but takes place at night it's not obvious unless you see it with the original blue color tinting the only films were Dracula is really on the de are both BBC versions and Coppola in the first BBC Dracula's the coachman but you don't see him until the end of the scene which ends at night so assuming he was driving the horses the whole time that would have meant he was out in the day it's tricky but I think it counts in Langella Dracula says he can move about in the day but that's only if he stays in a dark spot the sunlight still kills him a big thing about the book was that it was written with multiple narrators through journal entries it's kind of like the equivalent of a modern-day found-footage horror film it gave it a realistic vibe in the movies it will be simple to have voiceovers with all the characters hammer begins with Jonathan Harker narrating but he's the only one later van Helsing is seen speaking into a phonograph but it's not voiceover even in the BBC O six version Jonathan is the only one who ever narrates so a big award goes to Coppola for being the only film to honor this very distinguishable trait of the book now let's get into the main plot in rough chronological order first I have to say it's hard to establish a consistent criteria I'll have to make a judgment call on a case-by-case basis I say characters and locations can be changed as long as the event is the same it can also happen off screen as long as it's explained so first we have Jonathan Harker travelling the Transylvania each movie acknowledges it in some way with some liberties the universal versions have Renfield instead the hammer' version has Harker arriving to destroy Dracula but the one that I think crosses the line is the Langella version because none of the traveling takes place Harker never goes to Transylvania he only meets Dracula at Carfax Abbey after he's already sold it to him so that first act never happens the scared townspeople who warn Jonathan not to go to the castle this happens in every version except Langella and Hammer they warn van Helsing and in Palance it's very subtle but the cliche is still there it takes place on st. George's Eve which the townspeople say is when the powers of evil are strongest it's sort of like Halloween which was formerly known as Hallows Eve the night before All Hallows day the only films that make mention of it are Franco and BBC the universal versions change it to Walpurgis night so if you want to celebrate more holidays like Halloween there you go the coachman who brings Jonathan to the castle is Dracula happens in Nosferatu the universals Turkish Franco BBC and Coppola with palin's it's hard to tell but I doubt that's Jack Palance as knows the first sign of Dracula's power is when wolves surround the coach and Dracula gets down and shoes them away it only happens in the franco version coppola shows us some wolves before dracula arrives but there's nothing to indicate that he's the one who made them go away I've always wondered why Jonathan has to go all the way to Transylvania to conduct business with Dracula could they do it by mail well in the book Dracula says the reason is so he can learn from JA Finn about English culture it's only made clear in Hammer Franco and BBC in Langella and Coppola track that says he can't wait to walk the London streets but still doesn't clarify the education he wants to get from after being there Joplin sells him the property in England it happens in every version except hammer in most cases the property is Carfax Abbey like in the book but in the Turkish version Jonathan is a lawyer selling him kiosks in Istanbul property nevertheless the wolves howl and Dracula says listen to them children of the night - what music they make it's in most versions sometimes the line is altered slightly such as the Langella version where he says what sad music they make but as we already know the movies all take liberties three vampire woman's seduce Jonathan Dracula comes in and shoes them away it happens in all of them except both Nosferatu 's Langella and BB co 6 in Turkish and Hammer there's only one girl but the event plays out just the same Dracula gives the vampire women a baby to feed on this ghastly deed only happens in Franco BBC and Coppola Jonathan discovers Dracula asleep in his coffin this happens in every version except all three that Universal produced Jonathan learns he's a prisoner in the castle and make several escape attempts most versions show him trying to get away again keeping in mind the two classic Universal versions call him Renfield here but after this point both characters are reinstated to their appropriate roles Dracula travels to England aboard a ship called the Demeter and kills everybody on board most films depict the captain tied to the wheel but the only ones that ignore the event altogether are Turkish hammer and Franco Mina waits for her husband Jonathan to arrive accompanied by her friend Lucy in both Nosferatu as she waits alone but the idea is the same in Langella she's not waiting for Jonathan she's talking to van Helsing about vampire lore so we can scratch that the book takes place in a cemetery on a cliff overlooking the sea Bram Stoker based this on an actual location in Whitby and the geography he describes his spot-on mentioning a nearby church and Abbey a fishing port and stone steps leading up the cliff it all exists in real life and the first BBC version gets a big point for filming it at the actual location the Turkish version doesn't use a cemetery but they find similar steps and the basic event is acknowledged Renfield is observed at the asylum for his odd habits of eating flies it's meant to be dr. Seward who observes him but in the universals it's changed to Martin in the Nosferatu remake it's van Helsing and Langella has Seward in the scene but doesn't directly interact either way in most of the film's Renfield's in his eylem lucy sleepwalks most of the films portray the scene even though it's always different as I mentioned many of the film's switch her name with Mina both Nosferatu s don't even have a Lucy equivalent more or less combining them the only ones that don't have the sleepwalking are BBC O six and Langella where she's kind of walking around in a room but uh I think she's awake at board Dracula preys upon Lucy in the book she sleepwalks outside up the steps into the cemetery and that's where Dracula sucks her blood most films depict the scene however the details are always different in both Nosferatu s Dracula is biting Jonathan's neck in Transylvania while back at home Mina or Lucy or whatever you want to call her is affected in some kind of telepathic way we can scratch those Lugosi Spanish Turkish hammer Langella all moved the encounter to her bedroom while Franco Palin's BBC and Coppola keep it outside BBC oh 6 is the only one that reserves the entire encounter for when Dracula makes Mina drink his blood leaving no equivalent of the Lucy encounter Lucy is ill with bite marks on her neck at giving the first clue to the other characters that something is going on the first Nosferatu is the only one that ignores it entirely in the universal she's dead immediately but the important clue is still found the Lugosi version was too uptight to show you the bite marks while the Spanish version didn't hold back the Langella version just a reminder is Mina here as is the Nosferatu remake but he or she doesn't get bidden done till the very end meaning the bite marks do not serve as a clue Lucy's condition is examined and she's given a blood transfusion Nosferatu ignores it in the universals she's already dead the rest all have it but a few minor things to note in Franco its dr. Seward who takes charge when in the book it's van Helsing Langella I had the debate because of the name switch and the event happens in a different time in the story but still I think it counts in BBC oh six it's Seward who does the transfusion because as I already said Arthur points a gun to him dr. van Helsing educates everybody on vampire lore pretty simple every movie has it except both Nosferatu 's Lucy now as a vampire preys on young children most of them have it in the universals it's read in a newspaper in the others it's usually shown as a young child or infant the Langella version is the only one that actually has the nerve to depict a dead baby geez we get the idea van Helsing confronts the vampire Lucy it happens in more than half the films typically she's repelled by a cross or crucifix the Turkish version uses garlic reminder with Langella it's confusing they have an encounter with both Mina and Lucy separately which gives two possible scenes to count but the later scene actually has the cross used on the character named Lucy van Helsing frees Lucy's soul by driving a wooden stake through her heart both Nosferatu is ignorin with the Lugosi version they cut all the explanation because back then god forbid you couldn't even talk about a state going through a heart even though it was in the damn book so Lucy just disappears from the film they never tell you what happened with her or why they're standing in front of a cemetery the Spanish version doesn't mess around it explains what happened without having to see it the rest are pretty straightforward next they stuffed Lucy's mouth with garlic rock on BBC the only one after that they cut off her head points for Turkish Franco BBC and Coppola rats rats Renfield's monologue where he describes Dracula's offer all three Universal versions included the two classics got the whole speech almost verbatim in the Langella version it's only partly used and is rushed but it's still there Renfield begs dr. sewer to let him out of the asylum because he knows if he stays there something bad will happen to Mina it's in the two universals BBC and in coppola he only talks to Mina directly what I'm looking for is not really there Dracula kills Renfield pretty simple five of them have it in the two universals he strangles them and throws him down a staircase in Beebe see it happens off screen in Langella he twists his head around and in Coppola he turns to green mist and slams Renfield repeatedly into the prison bars the heroes locate Dracula's boxes of soil and contaminate them the book is really big on holy wafers but in the movies the methods they use vary in turkish they seal garlic under the lids in Franco and Palance it's not really clear exactly how in BBC its holy wafers like in the book in coppola it's the works they use holy water they read from a Bible and they burn the whole place down when they're sanctifying the boxes they get creeped out Arthur sees Dracula's face in the dark and then the whole place comes alive with rats only Franco BBC and Coppola acknowledged this brief encounter Franco deviates by having a bunch of taxidermy animals start moving in BBC it's all in the dialogue and Coppola it shows the rats except it's in a bedroom instead of Carfax Abbey Dracula forces Mina to drink his blood beginning her slow transformation into a vampire it happens in seven of the films in the universals Mina describes it obviously since it was too gruesome the show the later versions not only show it but imply Mina is doing it willingly and even enjoys it in bland Jolla it's Lucy BBC oh six also gives the scene to Lucy there's a standoff with Dracula where the heroes use crosses and other things to send them back jumping through a window as you can see most of the films include the confrontation usually it's a cross but in Turkish I think it's garlic Mina develops a psychic link to Dracula she's the only one who knows he's travelling back to Transylvania Palance BBC and Coppola are the only ones to acknowledge this in Palance and Coppola van Helsing hypnotizes her like in the book but in BBC he just straight-up asks her either way the psychic connection is retained they all follow Dracula to Transylvania half of the films preserve this final act even though it differs some you'll see it in all the colour films except Langella Nosferatu remake and BBC oh six van Helsing and Mina encountered the three vampire brides outside of Dracula's castle van Helsing creates a protection by making a circle of holy wafers only in BBC and qapla these two films are really duking it out the vampire brides are found sleeping in their coffins in the book it's van Helsing who hunts them down and Hammer it's Jonathan and Franco it's Jonathan and Arthur who's named Quincy the rest it's van Helsing in the book van Helsing stakes them through the heart and cuts their heads off in only five of the films are the brides killed in Hammer Franco pounced and BBC it's just the stake in Coppola only the heads are cut off no steak Dracula's transported by traveling gypsies Franco BBC and Coppola the heroes battle the gypsies Franco BBC and Coppola the hero sees Dracula's coffin Franco BBC and Coppola yet again now the big one Dracula's death the heroes kill him in every film but are any of them close enough to the book in the book he's killed by ordinary knives Jonathan slashes his throat while Quincey stabs his heart well in nos rot - its sunlight nope in the universals van Helsing drives a wooden stake through his heart nope and Turkish it's a stake and decapitation not quite in hammer its sunlight nope in Franco it's fire nope in Palance van Helsing impales him with a spear with some sunlight for good measure nope in BBC it's van Helsing with the steak again nope in Langella he's hung on a ship hook and struck by sunlight nope in the NOS fought to remake its sunlight again Plus van Helsing stakes an off-screen nope in Coppola it's knives Jonathan goes for his throat Quincey goes for the heart Wow somebody finally got it right in BBC oh six it's a stake through the back nope and in the final shot he's alive again well that one's sure off the mark with Coppola there are differences in the book Dracula never gets out of the coffin but in the movie he gets up and tries to fight back in the book right after the knives he crumbles to dust immediately but in the movie he and Mina go into the castle to have one last melodramatic dying scene with all that aside Dracula is killed by the correct characters with the correct weapons targeting the correct places on the body it's the only film that comes close enough next quincy dies from wounds inflicted from the battle with the gypsies only in BBC and coppola end at last in the final chapter the rest of the characters returned to Transylvania years later to pay their respects to quincy only the BBC version includes this final scene and here's the final score as you can see the 1977 BBC version comes out on top but the Coppola version trails very close behind one could argue that there are other plot points to consider so there is a margin of debate for that reason I think it's worth bringing up again all the creative departures each film brings to the table as said before BBC has the weird video effects Mina and Lucy are sisters and Quincey and Arthur are combined all pretty minor things coppola on the other hand has the blood connection the dracula origin story Renfield as Jonathan's predecessor the weird costumes the butt wig Dracula's sword the romance with Mina the reincarnation the sympathy for Dracula Mina's seducing van Helsing and the list goes on and on I think it's safe to say the Coppola version invents far more stuff than the BBC version and it's my assessment that the Coppola version is primarily Coppola vision not Bram Stoker's even though it still uses a commendable amount of source material the BBC version for the most part restrains from going on its own creative tangents it just sticks to the material as dry as it is I concur with the score and can say without any doubt on my mind the 1977 BBC version Count Dracula is the most faithful to the book and just to reiterate this has nothing to do with preference I personally find the Coppola version more entertaining but that wasn't the contest now as other Dracula films come about the contest may still go on the funny thing is it's a contest where nobody wanted to be the winner each film wanted to invent something new to keep the story fresh but the most refreshing thing to do would actually be to make the first-ever page-by-page adaptation yeah it will be a long movie it would have to be a trilogy and go full Peter Jackson style or better yet a TV series Netflix or anybody who's listening you have an easy win here

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[u/iamstephano]

James Rolfe was a big part of my childhood, learnt so much about film history through him.

[u/Unleashtheducks]

James Rolfe is much better talking about classic movie monsters than his video game reviews

[u/danccbc]

This video took a diarrhea dump in my ear.

[u/AkhilArtha]

One of the best Dracula adaptions I have watched in recent times is the Episode 1 of the BBC Dracula series.

Episode 2 is fine. Don't watch episode 3.

[u/YaboyMiltn]

My man james.. been watching him since middle school Like 05

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I just started watching the Hammer film Dracula lol

[u/JC-Ice]

I haven't seen the Turkish movie but I do know all the others. I would make thr same conclusion as him, it just varies between the final two depending on which elements of the book you consider more important.