60 Dracula Movies Ranked from Best to Worst
by Cineanalyst | created - 20 Dec 2017 | updated - 29 Jul 2020 | PublicAfter reading Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula," I viewed a bunch of Dracula movies. This is a ranking of all of them that I've reviewed. This list ranges from fairly faithful adaptations, to loose reworkings and movies that hardly have anything to do with Dracula besides character names. This isn't an exhaustive list, although I believe I've seen most of the Dracula movies I care to see for now, and I'll add to the list if I view any more. For my full reviews at IMDb for these movies, a link is posted at the bottom of each movie's brief summary in this list, or you may click on my user name to link to my IMDb page to look through all of my reviews.
Also check out my ranking of Frankenstein films.
And my ranking of Dorian Gray pictures.
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My average rating of ranked movies: 4.4 stars.
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1. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, Horror, Musical
A ballet rendition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula", stylized as an Expressionistic silent film.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni, CindyMarie Small
Votes: 2,233 | Gross: $0.06M
I didn't expect my favorite adaptation of a Victorian-era Gothic horror story to be a postmodern silent-film ballet originally intended for Canadian TV, but it is. Director Guy Maddin and company merge the styles of two mute art forms, ballet and silent film, with their own codes of silent gestures, and no film adaptation has better depicted the sexual and xenophobic themes of Stoker's tale.
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2. Nosferatu (1922)
Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Votes: 105,354
The earliest Dracula film still known to exist, F.W. Murnau's loose, unauthorized, silent-film adaptation of Stoker's novel introduced shadows to the Count, made sunlight an existential threat to him and began the oft-reused incident of him being fascinated by an image of the Mina/Lucy-type character - none of which Stoker wrote. But the film's association of the vampire with the plague is faithful to the spirit of Stoker's subtext of vampirism as portending natural disease.
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3. Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror
The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.
Director: E. Elias Merhige | Stars: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes
Votes: 44,160 | Gross: $8.29M
A fictional telling of the making of the above 1922 "Nosferatu," wherein actor Max Schreck (in an Oscar-nominated performance by Willem Dafoe) is either an incredible method actor or a real vampire pretending to be an actor pretending to be a vampire. Film itself is also treated as a vampire, especially as embodied by the zealous director F.W. Murnau (as played by John Malkovich).
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4. Dracula (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
Directors: Tod Browning, Karl Freund | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye
Votes: 58,584
One of the most influential films of all time, this early talkie essentially invented the horror genre in Hollywood and inspired Universal to launch its series of monster movies, as well as encouraging other studios to make their own shockers. It also introduced the most iconic performance of Dracula ever with Bela Lugosi's suave Count, with mesmerizing eyes highlighted by cinematographer Karl Freund. Lugosi's wonderful accent gave us the since-oft-repeated non-Stoker line, "I never drink... wine." If the film weren't so stagy in its later scenes, I'd rank it higher.
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5. Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Passed | 60 min | Horror, Mystery
When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 5,573
Unofficially, director Tod Browning's (of the film above) third try at Stoker's tale and a remake of his first, now-lost attempt, "London After Midnight" (1927). In some ways, it's an improvement on Browning's 1931 "Dracula," and it plays on Bela Lugosi's star image from that film in an interesting, self-reflexive way.
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6. Drácula (1931)
Unrated | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Centuries-old vampire Dracula preys upon the innocent Eva and her friends.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Carlos Villarías, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton, Pablo Álvarez Rubio
Votes: 5,096
Filmed at nights while the English-language version listed above was made in the days, Universal's Spanish-language version is an interesting take on the same script and sets but by another cast and crew. In some ways better and in other ways worse--and in still other ways just different--, it remains the best adaptation of the Catholic proselytizing in Stoker's novel because of its Spanish-language orientation.
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7. Drakula Istanbul'da (1953)
102 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Azmi is a lawyer from Istanbul. Drakula of Romania has assumed a new title. Azmi travels to Romania for legal matters. He is warned of Drakula but Azmi is a strong believer of goodness.
Director: Mehmet Muhtar | Stars: Annie Ball, Cahit Irgat, Ayfer Feray, Bülent Oran
Votes: 512
Another case of the orientation of the filmmakers and intended audience providing a greater context to an aspect of Stoker's book, "Drakula Istanbul'da" might be the first and only Dracula movie to benefit from mentioning the historical Vlad the Impaler, whose minor influence on Stoker has since been blown out of proportion. But, for this Turkish production, it adds resonance to the invasion threat of this fictional descendant of the real man who gruesomely killed thousands of Turks. Being a low-budget, non-Hollywood production, for a primarily non-Christian domestic audience, it also adapts the familiar story in other interesting and sometimes amusing ways.
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8. Horror of Dracula (1958)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Horror
When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling
Votes: 27,956
Hammer shook up the vampire movie indefinitely with its blood-and-bosoms formula and red-blooded color filming introduced here, its first of nine Dracula movies. It's a bare-bones and action-paced adaptation and remains the best in the Hammer series, introducing Peter Cushing as Van Helsing and Christopher Lee as Dracula. It also introduced elaborate make-up-enhanced visual effects and the makeshift-cross trope to vampire movies.
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9. Blood for Dracula (1974)
R | 106 min | Horror
An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.
Director: Paul Morrissey | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry
Votes: 6,570 | Gross: $0.28M
Campy, exploitative, grotesque and well-made low-budget reworking of the Dracula tale, sending the vampire to Italy in search of virgin blood. This Count is more concerned with chastity than is the Church, and his aristocratic ways meet their match in a rapacious Red working man with an axe to grind.
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10. Cuadecuc, vampir (1971)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary, Horror
An analysis of the construction mechanism for the magic in dominant narrative cinema though the filming of Count Dracula (1970), a commercial film by Jesús Franco.
Director: Pere Portabella | Stars: Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Soledad Miranda, Jack Taylor
Votes: 913
An experimental documentary following the making of Jesus Franco's poor international 1970 Dracula, listed much farther below, "Cuadecuc vampir" is a mostly silent rendition that retells much of the Dracula narrative, which kind of makes having watched Franco's bad movie worth it, and it includes the best mirror scene of any Dracula film in its only talking sequence.
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11. Love at First Bite (1979)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Horror
After being evicted from his castle in Transylvania, Count Dracula and his assistant Renfield travel to New York to find a woman who the Count believes is the reincarnation of the woman he has loved for all eternity.
Director: Stan Dragoti | Stars: George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, Dick Shawn
Votes: 6,386 | Gross: $43.89M
The funniest Dracula parody out there, tanned George Hamilton is a hilarious vampire, who reluctantly invades America after the Communists evict him from his Romanian castle. And I love this play on Stoker's line, "Children of the night, shut up!"
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12. Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
PG | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror
The vampire Mamuwalde (a.k.a. Blacula) is resurrected by voodoo and forced to kill again.
Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier, Michael Conrad
Votes: 3,053 | Gross: $2.18M
A sequel that's better than the original, it continues the themes of race and a racist police force from the first "Blacula," while dropping the stupid reincarnation romance and replacing it with a strong Mina-type heroine and Voodoo religious leader (played by Pam Grier)--probably the best reworking of Stoker's religion since the 1931 Spanish-language "Dracula" and one of the more anti-sexist Dracula-type films made.
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13. Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
R | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After killing his disciple, three English gentlemen unwittingly resurrect Count Dracula, who seeks to avenge his servant by making the trio die by the hands of their own children.
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Linda Hayden
Votes: 6,877
The best of Hammer's Dracula sequels, this fifth rendition in the series aptly merges Stoker's exploitation of Victorian England's sexual hypocrisy with Hammer's catering to its target audience of Vietnam-era youth. This time, the Count is like the Id monster from "Forbidden Planet" (1956), fulfilling the wishes of a rebellious youth movement against the duplicity of their fathers.
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14. Van Helsing (2004)
PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The famed monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula, who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for nefarious purposes.
Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, Shuler Hensley
Votes: 284,380 | Gross: $120.18M
Hugh Jackman is more X-Men's Wolverine than Stoker's Van Helsing here, but at least its Dracula is more like Stoker's Count than the weak or lovesick vamps that comprise much of the rest of this list. This monster rally is also over-filled with characters and CGI, but it employs the camera to some use within the action and is, thus, more fun to watch than the prior year's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," listed far below.
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15. The Return of the Vampire (1943)
Not Rated | 69 min | Drama, Horror
When an errant bomb unearths the coffin of a vampire during the London Blitz, a gravedigger unknowingly reanimates the monster by removing the stake from his heart
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch, Roland Varno
Votes: 2,741 | Gross: $1.09M
If not concerned with copyright infringement, this Columbia shocker could've been named, "Dracula Meets the Wolf Man." Lugosi plays the vampire again, and this time he's an allegory for German invasions in WWI and WWII. Might be the first movie to resurrect a vampire by removing a stake from his heart, which was reused in "House of Frankenstein" (1944).
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16. Blacula (1972)
PG | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.
Director: William Crain | Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 7,860 | Gross: $3.00M
The camp doesn't mix too well with the social commentary in this blaxploitation flick, but the allegory of vampirism to racism in urban America is a worthy translation of Stoker's themes to the exploitation genre.
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17. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
R | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves
Votes: 238,272 | Gross: $82.52M
Highly stylized--even gaudy--and definitely not a faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula." It adapts the reincarnation romance from the 1974 TV movie listed far below, as well as from "Blacula" (1972), and it takes some other non-Stoker elements from other Dracula films. On the plus side, Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation doesn't shy away from the source's sex, and the film introduces the then-new invention of cinema to a story that featured several then-new inventions--although the filmmakers miss the reason for these inventions: for Stoker, they were used to defeat the ancient Count; here, they're merely part of the film's decorations.
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18. Dracula and Son (1976)
PG | 78 min | Comedy, Horror
In the 1700s, a vampire has a son from a normal woman. The mother dies, and he spends two centuries trying to teach his meek son how to be a proper vampire but no avail. Now they have to flee from Transylvania, and they end up in France.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Christopher Lee, Bernard Menez, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Catherine Breillat
Votes: 777
A light and sometimes amusing, if poorly plotted, vampire parody with Lee is his last Dracula-esque role. The otherwise-tired reincarnation romance is reinvigorated here by turning it into an Oedipal complex and love triangle involving the Count and his son. There's also some self-reflexive scenes where Lee plays a vampire playing a vampire in a film-within-the-film.
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19. The Return of Dracula (1958)
PG | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Francis Lederer, Norma Eberhardt, Ray Stricklyn, John Wengraf
Votes: 1,554
Dracula invades suburban California in this poverty-row production where vampirism becomes a metaphor for contemporary Cold War politics. Czech-born Frances Lederer had the best accent for the role since Lugosi. It might be the first movie to show that vampires can't be photographed.
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20. House of Frankenstein (1944)
Passed | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine
Votes: 7,715
John Carradine's Dracula is an afterthought in this light but fun monster-rally sequel to Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943).
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21. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Directors: Charles Barton, Walter Lantz | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi
Votes: 19,554 | Gross: $4.80M
Sure, the humor is largely outdated, but this trend-setting monster-rally comedy is still a lot of fun. That Dracula's reflection is seen through the mirror in one scene, however, is a continuing source of frustration for me (otherwise, I'd rank this higher).
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22. Dracula Bites the Big Apple (1979)
22 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
Dracula travels to New York for a change of scenery.
Director: Richard Wenk | Stars: Peter Loewy, Barry Gomolka, Karen Tull, Steve Rubell
Votes: 128
A short Dracula parody that's similar to the same year's feature-length "Love at First Bite" listed above. Both extend Dracula's Western travels all the way to New York, where they're assisted by Renfield, and both are full of rapid-fire, if sometimes dated, gags. A musical number and moments of breaking the fourth wall are highlights.
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23. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Horror, Western
Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sun cream to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.
Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: David Carradine, Morgan Brittany, Bruce Campbell, Jim Metzler
Votes: 3,477
Another Dracula-related comedy, this one mixes the vampire and western genres, while ignoring Stoker's book entirely except to steal a couple character names. It's fun in a goofy B-picture kind of way--just don't expect anything especially witty.
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24. The Monster Squad (1987)
PG-13 | 82 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A group of young monster fanatics attempts to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters.
Director: Fred Dekker | Stars: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr
Votes: 35,278 | Gross: $3.77M
This kiddie monster rally has some charm and is well paced except for the slow movements of its hardly-menacing monsters, which include the entire gang of Dracula, Frankenstein's creature, the Wolf Man, Gillman, the Mummy and three vampire brides.
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25. Hrabé Drakula (1971 TV Movie)
76 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Jonathan Haker travels to Transylvania to seal a business deal with the mysterious Count Dracula.
Director: Anna Procházková | Stars: Ilja Racek, Jan Schánilec, Klára Jerneková, Jirí Zahajský
Votes: 64
At one-hour-and-a-quarter length, this Czech TV movie is the best option if one merely wants to get the gist of Stoker's story in a relatively short movie. It even manages to retain some of the book's epistolary plotting by focusing on the diary entries and narration of Jonathan Harker. Otherwise, the poor production values are what you'd expect from a 1971 TV movie, but at least it doesn't over extend itself like a couple of other 1970s TV movies listed below.
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26. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
PG | 107 min | Drama, Horror
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor
Votes: 40,470
Werner Herzog's remake of the 1922 "Nosferatu" suffers from turning the Count into a heavy-breathing, lovesick clown (as played by Klaus Kinski) and from its deathly-slow pacing and stiff acting. Otherwise, the drab cinematography fits well with the plague theme.
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27. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
R | 89 min | Action, Horror
In China, Professor Van Helsing helps eight kung fu-trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves.
Directors: Roy Ward Baker, Cheh Chang | Stars: Peter Cushing, David Chiang, Julie Ege, Han-Chen Wang
Votes: 4,930
Hammer ended its Dracula series on a mixed note with this 9th incarnation--mixing the horror genre with that of kung fu. It's best when appreciated as camp.
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28. Dracula's Dog (1977)
R | 87 min | Horror
Communist soldiers accidentally unleash the part-vampire servant of Dracula, as well as Zoltan, his vampire dog, during excavations in Romania. Together, they set out for America to find ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Band | Stars: José Ferrer, Michael Pataki, Jan Shutan, Libby Chase
Votes: 1,634
So-bad-it's-good film that is surprisingly average technically but predictably ridiculous in its premise of a vampire dog, who along with his Renfield-type master, are on a quest to turn the last of the Dracula clan in modern-day USA into their vampiric overlord.
29. Son of Dracula (1943)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers
Votes: 6,192
Another Dracula film that erroneously reveals the Count to have a reflection, this updating of Dracula to the American South is a mixed bag. Contrary to some critical opinions, the mustached and super-strong Lon Chaney Jr. is a decent Count, and he's more faithful to Stoker than the suave renditions of Dracula started by Lugosi. The use of mist as a vampiric form and the foggy floating swamp scene are standouts.
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30. Count Dracula (1977 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 150 min | Drama, Horror
The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon, Judi Bowker
Votes: 1,790
Possibly the most faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel, this TV movie is otherwise not that good. It suffers from its poor TV production values, but the not-so-Stoker exaggeration of Dracula as a cult leader struggling as a counterweight to Catholicism, and Renfield's struggle between the two forces, is well conceived.
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31. Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror
Ten years after his demise, Count Dracula is resurrected by his servant and preys on four unsuspecting English tourists who have taken shelter in his castle.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews
Votes: 10,864 | Gross: $0.80M
So-so third installment in Hammer's Dracula series sees the return of Christopher Lee as the Count in one of the series' most graphic scenes. Dracula's daring raid on a monastery reworks Stoker's Renfield subplot unused by Hammer's '58 adaptation. This is also the first of Hammer's films to invent water as a weakness of vampires--as if Hammer's vampires weren't already weak enough.
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32. House of Dracula (1945)
Approved | 67 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Martha O'Driscoll
Votes: 6,154
Universal's Dracula, Frankenstein monster, Wolf Man, a mad scientist and a hunchback return again in this sequel that inconsistently respects or disregards where the last movie left off. Although Dracula gets more screen time this go around, and the mad scientist adds a variation on Jekyll/Hyde to the mix, the lack of the journey plot from "House of Frankenstein" makes this one feel slightly more episodic and lacking.
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33. London After Midnight (2002 TV Movie)
47 min | Drama, Horror
A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney .
Director: Rick Schmidlin | Stars: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Andy MacLennan, Polly Moran
Votes: 323
A reconstruction of the lost 1927 silent film, this is the closest thing to seeing what looks to have been an interesting film. Mostly relying on stills, however, this reconstruction is itself rather non-cinematic.
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34. Nocturna (1979)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
Dracula's granddaughter falls in love with a disco guitarist and runs away to New York City with him.
Director: Harry Hurwitz | Stars: Nai Bonet, John Carradine, Yvonne De Carlo, Theodore Gottlieb
Votes: 331
Forget the vampire-human romance about Dracula's granddaughter trying to be human through disco dancing and just try to bare through the bad dialogue and acting, to get to the groovy soundtrack. If you don't like disco music, then I wouldn't recommend this one. It doesn't really have anything else going for it.
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35. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Unrated | 71 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur that lead Dr. Von Helsing to believe that the Countess must be a vampire.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan
Votes: 7,999
Dull sequel to the 1931 "Dracula," it features some psychobabble and a misogynist narrative, but Gloria Holden is a worthy successor to Lugosi, and the homosexual overtones of same-sex vampire biting is more explicit this time.
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36. The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror
Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson
Votes: 8,868
Another dull Dracula sequel, this time from Hammer's followup to its '58 film. Despite its misleading title, it neither features Dracula, nor his brides; instead, we get kid-vamp Baron Meister, but, at least, Peter Cushing returns as Van Helsing.
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37. Hotel Transylvania (2012)
PG | 91 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teenaged daughter.
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky | Stars: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez
Votes: 280,838 | Gross: $148.31M
Like Count Chocula, it's a mere caricature of Stoker's Dracula, overly sweet and not very good for you.
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38. Dracula Untold (2014)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
As his kingdom is being threatened by the Turks, young prince Vlad Tepes must become a monster feared by his own people in order to obtain the power needed to protect his own family, and the families of his kingdom.
Director: Gary Shore | Stars: Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon, Art Parkinson
Votes: 207,530 | Gross: $56.28M
Batman Begins. A superhero origins story for Dracula which goes all-in on Stoker's slight suggestion that the Count was originally the historical Vlad the Impaler. A potential sequel is set up via a reincarnation romance, and it's racist in a watered-down "300" (2006) kind of way.
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39. The Vampire Happening (1971)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Horror
An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania. What she doesn't know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire countess, and emerges from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Pia Degermark, Thomas Hunter, Yvor Murillo, Ingrid van Bergen
Votes: 722
A bad movie that's derivative of Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), but the film indicates that the filmmakers had no pretensions otherwise. Might be worth a look if you enjoy intentionally bad sex comedies, and at least it's better than the same director's "Dracula has Risen from the Grave" (1968), listed below.
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40. The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
R | 87 min | Horror
In 1974, Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing investigates a satanic cult on behalf of Scotland Yard, only to discover a plot by Count Dracula to commit global genocide.
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles, William Franklyn
Votes: 6,919
The 8th film in Hammer's Dracula series has a promising premise involving the Count as the head of a corporation and a Satanic cult in the present day, but gets tangled up by Hammer's typically weak vampires.
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41. Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Mel Brooks' parody of the classic vampire story and its famous film adaptations.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber
Votes: 45,167 | Gross: $10.77M
Another bad vampire parody, Mel Brooks failed to recapture the glory of "Young Frankenstein" (1974), which isn't to say this one's without a few laughs, too.
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42. Dracula (1974 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 98 min | Drama, Horror
Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Jack Palance, Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport, Pamela Brown
Votes: 2,779
The first Dracula adaptation to include a reincarnation romance, which is nowhere to be found in Stoker's novel, and to blow way out of proportion the book's connection to the historical Vlad the Impaler. But, sadly, not the last.
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43. Dracula (1979)
R | 109 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
In 1913, the charming, seductive and sinister vampire Count Dracula travels to England in search of an immortal bride.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan
Votes: 11,103 | Gross: $20.16M
This disco adaptation of Stoker's story suffers from being made into a dime-romance novel and from being based on the same play as the 1931 films. Also, a vampire's reflection appears in water, while the same vampire and Dracula don't cast ones in mirrors. A boyishly-handsome Frank Langella is way too suave as the Count. And, it's sexist.
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44. Scars of Dracula (1970)
R | 95 min | Horror
A young man is murdered while spending the night at Count Dracula's castle, prompting his brother to come to the small town where all the traces end to look for him.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Christopher Matthews
Votes: 6,394
Hammer's sixth Dracula film includes a few particulars from Stoker's novel, including the Count climbing walls, but it doesn't do anything interesting thematically beyond redecorating the interiors of Castle Dracula in a red theme befitting of his blood lust. Otherwise, it's sexist and full of cheap fake bats.
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45. Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
PG | 96 min | Horror
In 1972 London - a century after his final battle with Professor Van Helsing - Count Dracula is resurrected by occultist Johnny Alucard, and goes after his archenemy's descendants.
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Neame
Votes: 7,437
In Hammer's seventh film in the series, hippies resurrect Dracula in the present day... and that about sums it up.
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46. Boo! (1932)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.
Director: Albert DeMond | Stars: Morton Lowry, Mae Clarke, Lawrence Grant, Raymond Hackett
Votes: 758
An early attempt from Universal (prefiguring the Abbott and Costello monster rallies) at making fun of its own monsters. A narrator makes lame jokes over cannibalized clips from "Nosferatu" (1922), Frankenstein (1931) and the lost-film "The Cat Creeps" (1930) and pretends the first on-screen meeting of Dracula and Frankenstein's monster.
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47. Dracula 3D (2012)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Asia Argento stars in horror legend Dario Argento's sexy spin on the classic tale about the sharp-toothed count who craves human blood.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Marta Gastini, Asia Argento, Unax Ugalde
Votes: 5,310 | Gross: $0.01M
For all its gratuitous nudity, cheesy visual effects and 3D crudity, which could've made for some fun camp, this is an unfortunately dull, cluttered and derivative adaptation that removes a lot of the best parts of Stoker's book.
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48. Dracula 2000 (2000)
R | 99 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A group of thieves breaks into a chamber expecting to find paintings, but instead they release the count himself, who travels to New Orleans to find his nemesis' daughter, Mary Van Helsing.
Director: Patrick Lussier | Stars: Gerard Butler, Justine Waddell, Jonny Lee Miller, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 36,449 | Gross: $33.02M
Like "Dracula A.D. 1972," of above, this is an obviously updated Dracula that focuses on youth culture, specifically Van Helsing's daughter. This one makes some other bad alterations to Stoker's original, features a young-adult cast mostly known for TV work, with the exception of Christopher Plummer, has a sexy Drac derivative of Frank Langella's 1979 version and contains blatant and repeated product placement for Virgin Records. Followed by two direct-to-video sequels.
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49. Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Dracula travels to the American West intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance', outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Melinda Casey, Virginia Christine
Votes: 2,252
The worst thing about this film is that despite its goofy premise, pitting a historical Western gunfighter against a supernatural vampire, is that instead of being unintentionally funny, it's a bland and relatively competently made B-picture.
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50. Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
Unrated | 89 min | Drama, Horror
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller, Ewa Strömberg
Votes: 5,198
Another try at Stoker's story by director Jesus Franco, this one benefits from being a looser reworking of the novel than the relatively-faithful 1970 Dracula listed farther down, and it also has lots of nudity and lesbians. It sucks otherwise.
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51. Frankenstein Island (1981)
PG | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein's ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Robert Clarke, Steve Brodie, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Christopher
Votes: 1,301
Well, Van Helsing is in it, and he's teamed up with the ghost of Dr. Frankenstein in some cockeyed Dr. Moreau-like cross-species experiments, including, ironically, blood transfusions to keep the nearly-200-years-old Van Helsing alive. Arguably either one of the worst films ever made or a film so bad it's good, I rate it as not quite either and a bit of both.
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52. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.
Director: Stephen Norrington | Stars: Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Jason Flemyng
Votes: 183,891 | Gross: $66.47M
Well, Mina Harker is in it. She's a vampire and, more inexplicably, a chemist. Meanwhile, Dr. Jekyll and the Invisible Man, apparently, don't perform any chemistry. Go figure. This CGI-bloated nonsense deserves the critical rebukes it received, but at least it has more character development than the other comic-book action movie listed directly below.
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53. Blade: Trinity (2004)
R | 113 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Blade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula.
Director: David S. Goyer | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Parker Posey, Ryan Reynolds
Votes: 188,211 | Gross: $52.41M
The third installment in the Blade series employs Dracula as an underdeveloped, burly supervillain with a ridiculously-convoluted past. The rest of the movie is a mess, too, and worst of all for an action movie, it's dull.
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54. Nadja (1994)
R | 93 min | Drama, Horror
This ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Elina Löwensohn, Peter Fonda, Nic Ratner, Karl Geary
Votes: 3,451 | Gross: $0.45M
Artsy updated reworking of Universal's "Dracula's Daughter" (1936) listed above, this one is partly annoying and partly laughable. Fuzzy, pixelated images from a toy camcorder obscure all of the good vampire stuff, while all of the self-indulgent naval gazing and sophomoric philosophizing of the titular young Goth woman, smoking and hanging out in bars, is what's captured with crisp black-and-white photography.
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55. Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A couple invites a Count from Hungary, who recently immigrated to America, to conduct a seance for the woman's recently deceased mother, oblivious to the fact that he is actually a vampire.
Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Michael Macready
Votes: 3,097 | Gross: $0.21M
Loose, low-budget Dracula adaptation that moves the story to present-day California and renames the Count, "Yorga." An unmemorable reworking of the novel, and it's also tame in blood and sex compared to contemporary Dracula films--except for a shocking dead cat scene. Followed by a sequel, "The Return of Count Yorga" (1971).
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56. Vampire in Venice (1988)
TV-MA | 97 min | Horror
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
Directors: Augusto Caminito, Klaus Kinski | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Barbara De Rossi, Yorgo Voyagis, Anne Knecht
Votes: 1,473
Choppy, stylistically derivative and inconsistent semi-sequel/reworking of Werner Herzog's 1979 "Nosferatu" remake listed above. Klaus Kinski returns to the titular role, sort of--he refused to wear the sad clown makeup this time. And, he was, reportedly, such a terror to work with that the film went through several directors. The result is boring and a mess.
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57. Dracula Rising (1993)
R | 85 min | Horror, Romance
Witness the romance and tragedy of one man's undying passion that led him to sell his soul. In this epic horror, Vlad Dracula exchanges salvation for immortality so that he may avenge the ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Gallo | Stars: Christopher Atkins, Stacey Travis, Doug Wert, Vessela Karlukovska
Votes: 421
Produced by Roger Corman, this low-budget bad movie could've been so-bad-it's-good if the entire production were like its unintentionally-hilarious ending. Piggybacking on the success of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) listed above, it also has a stupid reincarnation romance.
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58. Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
G | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After a Monsignor accidentally brings Count Dracula back from the dead while exorcising his castle, the vampire preys on the holy man's beautiful niece and her friends.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson, Barbara Ewing
Votes: 8,188
The fourth and worst film in Hammer's Dracula series, the production design is claustrophobic in its cheapness, the characters are annoying and look like they're from the late 20th Century as opposed to the film's early-20th Century setting, and the depiction of the atheist is insulting. Worst of all, Dracula has a reflection.
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59. Count Dracula (1970)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Horror
Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm
Votes: 3,793
A good example of why you shouldn't try to make a relatively faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel if you don't have a budget. Also a good example of why zooming is not an interesting overriding aesthetic framework and why no matter how many times you zoom in and out on taxidermic animals, it won't make them look alive.
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60. Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)
85 min | Horror
The Transylvanian vampire searches for a virgin sacrifice to resurrect his long-dead daughter.
Director: Javier Aguirre | Stars: Paul Naschy, Rosanna Yanni, Haydée Politoff, Mirta Miller
Votes: 1,204
Cheap, poorly constructed, perverted and weird. And, as good as that sounds, the film is worse. The version with Elvira's interruptions is probably more fun to watch; at least, I don't see how it could be worse.
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