Dracula (2006)

Cautiously Recommended

UK/USA

Television Film

Director: Bill Eagles

Writers: Stewart Harcourt, Bram Stoker

Cinematographer: Cinders Forshaw

Composer: Dominik Scherrer

Cast: Dan Stevens, Sophia Myles, Marc Warren, Stephanie Leonidas, David Suchet, Benedick Blythe, James Greene, Tom Burke, Donald Sumpter, Rafe Spall

Loosely adapted from Bram Stoker’s much filmed epistolary novel, this handsome and sexy if never entirely convincing BBC production follows a syphilis-stricken nobleman’s frantic, ethically dubious attempts to benefit from the life giving properties of a mysterious Transylvanian count’s blood, before his impending nuptials. Iain.Stott