Oh, Demon! Had I only the heart.

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 1999)

Over sexed say some. Not faithful say others. Brillant says I.
All the mentioned critiques may be true, yet I find this movie splendid and beautiful. I have read Bram Stoker's Dracula but fail to see why this movie's lack of faithfulness to the original story a shortcoming. As a movie it is beautiful and novel. It has drama and compassion. It has light and darkness in perfect sense and harmony. Demons destroying wonderful creatures and demonic apparitions destroyed by beauty.
My only question is: Why does Van Helsing have to be so utterly stupid? In the best of the stories told before he was brilliant and ingenious. He had to be to solve this strange and occult riddle - yet here he was odd and malplaced.