He ’s perhaps the most popular monster in all of repugnance . And yet it ’s been weirdly unmanageable to accurately portray the prince of darkness on projection screen — to make him as scary and evil and magnetic as he was in Bram Stoker ’s original novel . Here are 12 movie and boob tube series whose personation of Dracula that grow it very , very amiss .
Note : This list is only including Draculas from movies and series where he was identify by name ( so Orlok from Dracula 3000 is not included , despite the title ) . Also , no parody or comedies , because cry at Dracula : Dead and Loving It for being a Bad Dracula is silent .
1 ) Blade Trinity
For the third and last movie in the Blade trilogy , director David Goyer decided to mark the vampire against his ultimate foe , Dracula . Except instead of being the ultimate evil , he was basically just a slice of beefcake with a penchant for eyeshadow and improbably pick up shirt . He had none of Dracula ’s charisma , cunning , or evil ; find out the above clip ; severely , no pimply goth teen should ever experience well-to-do giving Dracula sassing , even if he does n’t realize who he ’s talking to . To be honorable , though , nothing was more black and non - Dracula - like than this Dracula ’s decision to call himself “ Drake . ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjQP_eaFVuU
2 ) Dracula Vs . Frankenstein’s monster
A slaughter of Ed Woodian symmetry , 1971 ’s Dracula Vs . Frankenstein does n’t really feature Dracula and Frankenstein combat , but that ’s the least of its troubles . It began as a generic horror movie asterisk neither Frankenstein nor Dracula , but the film fell aside before it was completed , and the music director decided to sum Frankenstein to the footage . Then that fell aside and the theater director decided to add together Dracula as well … by throw up a former stock broker named Robert Engel as the king of vampires , supposedly because he thought Engel look right . If you watch the above telecasting , you could see Engel looks less like Dracula and more like Mr. Kotter from late-’70s situation comedy Welcome Back Kotter . Anyways , this Dracula wants to convey the Frankenstein monster back to aliveness for grounds strange and as soon as Frank wakes up he attacks and Dracula is forced to pop him and does n’t pay care to the time and the Dominicus comes up and he die . It ’s all really obtuse .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-sMSY_DZY
3 ) Dracula 2000
Dracula 2000 is n’t great , but it ’s not close to the worst movie on this lean . And the twirl it sacrifice Dracula — that he ’s actually Judas Iscariot , who God penalize with awesome lamia powers for cheat on Jesus ( which explain his averting to Christian iconography and silver , after the silver he was paid for ratting out his elysian brother ) — is in reality pretty interesting . But as an adaptation of Dracula ? It ’s insane . Also insane : Gerard Butler ’s Dracula ’s ability to have sex so firmly he and his paramour float until they hit the roof .
4 ) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Although not a comedy show , Buffy played the mythic scoundrel for laughs by making him a long - hairy , Anne Rice - ish vampire with a monolithic self from his place in pappa refinement ( and his stately inheritance ) ; this was cemented by the way he made funny relief character Xander his bondage . But Buffy did n’t relegate him totally to a joke , since he had strange power other vampires did n’t — which ended up being a major secret plan detail in the later Buffy funnies — and even pull off to get Buffy to begin to drink his blood . But even with his great power and ego , this Dracula was endlessly more preposterous than he was intimidate or malefic .
5 ) Dracula ’s Dog
Dracula is n’t in much of Dracula ’s Dog ; really , he ’s only there to sting a dog , turning it into a vampire so it can assault people ’s deary subsequently . But why would Dracula do this ? Well , because this frankfurter prevents Dracula , in bat form , from drinking a peasant cleaning lady and Dracula was so pissed that he turned the hot dog instead . Suffice it to say , any movie in which a dearie can outmaneuver the king of vampires is a shitty Dracula pic .
6 ) Van Helsing
To be fair , the Dracula of Stephen Sommers ’ big - budget monster activity picture is pretty evil . But for some reason , this Dracula is really interested in being a beginner , even though his squash racquet - baby need werewolf or Frankenstein mogul to be deliver and also he and Van Helsing are Brother choose by God and Satan to … do … stuff and nonsense . It ’s all weird and overcomplicated and still somehow not particularly interesting , much like the movie itself . And why the blaze does this Dracula need to be killed by a loup-garou ? Sigh .
7 ) Dracula : Prince of Darkness
I hate to drag through the mud any of Christopher Lee ’s operation as Dracula in his Hammer horror moving picture , but for some cause Lee has dead zero lines in the second picture in the serial . He just hissed . It ’s grueling to portray Dracula as a being of supreme evil and horror when he ’s has the communication skills of an bowling alley cat . Lee purportedly refuse to say his dialogue because the wrinkle were so mute , but the screenwriter says he did n’t write any .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2UfSB6MiIk
- Billy the Kid Vs . Dracula
Even if you grease one’s palms the idea that Dracula has willingly chosen to wander the American Occident In the 1800s — which does not seem like something that would be up Dracula ’s bowling alley — watching Dracula become a spread possessor is about as pitiful and bizarre as seeing him get outsmarted by a hotdog . At least he ’s obsessed with Billy the Kid ’s reasonably fiancée Betty in an befittingly Dracula - ish way . But nothing is more pathetic than Billy shooting Dracula in the “ climatic ” finale struggle to no help , followed by Billy throwing his gun at Dracula and knock him out for an comfortable staking .
9 ) Dario Argento ’s Dracula
I ’m still boggled that the master of Italian horror movies such as Suspiria and Phenomena made such a neutered , bad version of Dracula . The movie in general is n’t scary , nor is Thomas Kretschmann ’s titular lamia — he seems like he ’s hold off in billet at a bank more than he does plat to let loose evil upon the world . Here ’s how messed up this motion picture ’s Dracula is : he really becomes a giant preying mantis monster a some point , and it ’s still not the dense thing Dracula does in the picture . No , that would be when it ’s revealed that Dracula actually pay up for the school in his small town , because obviously if Dracula is noted for something , it ’s his large-hearted nature and his championing of education .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VjzWONENMw
10 ) Vampirella
I speculate a movie that posits that Dracula is an foreigner from a vampire major planet name Drakulon who came to Earth after killing some kind of vampire council has given up all pretence of accuracy . I could move past the fact that The Who ’s Roger Daltrey is playing Dracula as a poor Isle of Man ’s Lestat , colligate the original reference for Anne Rice ’s more popular lamia ; I could even forgive the fact that Dracula ’s stage name is “ Jaimie Blood . ” But what I can not forgive is Dracula ’s ponytail in the above video of Jaimie Blood ’s “ performance . ” combust in hell , Vampirella movie .
11 ) lineage of Dracula ’s Castle
As the title may point , this is a deep stunned movie . Count Dracula and his countess are scrunch in a castle in Arizona . Take a minute to reread that conviction . Then , the original owner of this Arizona castle comes back , and Dracula tries to get him to sell it or leave . That ’s it . That ’s the movie — oh , although the original owner is apparently either a sequent killer or a werewolf , if that matters .
12 ) Dracula
get me be totally clear — NBC ’s 10 - episode Dracula TV series , star Jonathan Rhys - Meyers , was a thoroughgoing joyfulness to watch out . It was massively entertaining , and I make out it . But as an adaptation of Dracula ? It was terrible — unless you call back Dracula being the hero , posing as an American industrialist , trying to invent wireless calorie-free lightbulb , and buying coolant ship’s company all as part of his insane strategy to kill the members of the ancient secret society who murder his married woman back in the 1600s . But this show is proof positive that inaccuracy does n’t necessarily always think “ bad . ” If only someone could remove the metaphorical stake from the show ’s heart to give us a 2nd time of year …
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