Bram Stoker Archives

Nosferatu (1922)

Rating: ★★★★★

Sep 2, 1999Silent Dracula Adaptation

The first screen adaptation of Dracula and the most amazing of all vampire films, a German Expressionist fairytale that exists in haunted netherworld through which stalks the crepuscular figure of Max Schreck

Director: F.W. Murnau

Actors: Max Schreck, Gustav von Waggenheim

Category: Horror

2 September 199912 August 2026 by Roog

Dracula (1931)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 29, 2012Spanish-Language Dracula Adaptation

The legendary Spanish-language version of Dracula that was shot on the same sets as the classic Bela Lugosi version. Although it ultimately stands too much in the shadow of the Lugosi film, it is the better of the two films

Director: George Melford

Actors: Carlos Villarias, Lupita Tovar

Category: Horror

29 September 201224 January 2026 by Roog

Dracula (1931)

Rating: ★★

Jun 28, 2002Universal Dracula Adaptation

The classic adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel that made Bela Lugosi into a horror icon and created the image of the vampire in dinner-suit and with East European accent. For all its stature, it is a dull and talky film and Lugosi is overwrought

Director: Tod Browning

Actors: Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye, Helen Chandler, …

Category: Horror

28 June 200223 February 2026 by Roog

Dracula’s Daughter (1936)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 2, 2005Universal Dracula Sequel

The first of the sequels to Universal’s Dracula this time without Bela Lugosi. A much better film in every way. creating a fine sense of atmosphere. Arguably the first lesbian vampire film.

Director: Lambert Hillyer

Actors: Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan, …

Category: Horror

2 June 200514 October 2025 by Roog

Dracula (1958)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 1, 2001Hammer Dracula Adaptation

The point where the legend of Hammer Films and the careers of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing began. A vivid colour remake of the Bram Stoker book that put a stake through the heart of the staid Universal horrors and created a new English horror industry

Director: Terence Fisher

Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, John Van Eyssen, …

Category: Horror

1 February 200114 October 2025 by Roog

Dracula in Pakistan (1967)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 9, 2014Pakistani Vampire Film

Pakistani film that is a blatant copy of Hammer's The Horror of Dracula often scene for scene. Not without some effect and it is fascinating to see the familiar story translated into different cultural terms

Director: Kh. Sarfraz

Actors: Rehan

Category: Horror

9 February 20146 July 2026 by Roog

Count Dracula (1970)

Rating: ★★

Apr 26, 2001Dracula Adaptation

Christopher Lee was inveigled to play the title role in what was advertised as an adaptation of the book as Bram Stoker wrote it. While this was somewhat true, such ambitions befell the cheapness of exploitation director Jess Franco

Director: Jess Franco

Actors: Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm, …

Category: Horror

26 April 200111 January 2026 by Roog

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 19, 2005Revived Mummy Queen/Hammer Film

Hammer Films adapt Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars about a revived mummy queen. A troubled production that ended up being one of Hammer's never-quite-rans

Director: Michael Carreras, Seth Holt

Actors: Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir, James Villiers, Hugh Burden, …

Category: Horror

19 June 200525 June 2022 by Roog

Dracula (1974)

Rating: ★★

Jan 30, 2001Dracula Adaptation

TV movie version of Bram Stoker's book that was released to theatres in some places. Richard Matheson's script brings back many aspects of the book that are dropped by other productions but the film suffers the fatal miscasting of Jack Palance in the title role

Director: Dan Curtis

Actors: Jack Palance, Nigel Davenport, Simon Ward, Fiona Lewis

Category: Horror

30 January 200114 October 2025 by Roog

Count Dracula (1977)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 29, 2014Dracula Adaptation

The most faithful version of Dracula to date. A BBC mini-series that adapts the book as a no-nonsense costume drama and even shoots in the mentioned locations, giving the impression of the story taking place as Bram Stoker visualised it

Director: Philip Saville

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon, Judi Bowker

Category: Horror

29 November 201411 January 2026 by Roog

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 5, 2003Dracula Adaptation

Werner Herzog conducts a remake of the silent German classic with Klaus Kinski as Dracula. A very different film to the original but quite unique in Herzog's individualistic way

Director: Werner Herzog

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor

Category: Horror

5 February 200312 August 2026 by Roog

Dracula (1979)

Rating: ★★½

May 27, 2002Dracula Adaptation

Lushly produced, big-budget adaptation of Bram Stoker starring Frank Langella that places much more of a romantic emphasis on the story than any other version. Here is the beginning of the darkly romantic vampire film

Director: John Badham

Actors: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Kate Nelligan, Donald Pleasence, …

Category: Horror

27 May 200214 October 2025 by Roog

The Awakening (1980)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 21, 2000Resurrected Mummy Queen

Adaptation of Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars about the spirit of an Ancient Egyptian queen possessing a modern day woman. Lavishly produced with a series of novelty deaths modeled on The Omen. Also the first mummy film to actually shoot in Egypt

Director: Mike Newell

Actors: Charlton Heston, Stephanie Zimbalist, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, …

Category: Horror

21 July 200012 October 2023 by Roog

The Lair of the White Worm (1988)

Rating: ★★

Jun 7, 2003Snake Priestess/Campy Horror

Ken Russell adapts a Bram Stoker novel about a snake cult. In Russell's hand, Stoker's serious work is turned into a campy over-the-top comedy overloaded with worm and phallic symbols

Director: Ken Russell

Actors: Hugh Grant, Amanda Donohoe, Peter Capaldi, Sammi Davis, …

Category: Horror

7 June 20031 July 2026 by Roog

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 7, 2001Dracula Adaptation

Francis Ford Coppola remakes and reinvents Dracula, transforming the text of Bram Stoker's book into a sensual, visually ravishing film with lush production values that make you gasp in excitement

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Actors: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins, …

Category: Horror

7 January 200110 December 2025 by Roog

Bram Stoker’s Legend of the Mummy (1997)

Rating: ★

Mar 25, 2003Revived Mummy

Low-budget and cheap looking adaptation of a lesser-known Bram Stoker novel The Jewel of the Seven Stars. This was clearly made to capitalise on Stoker's name following the success of Bram Stoker's Dracula

Director: Jeffrey Obrow

Actors: Louis Gossett Jr, Eric Lutes, Amy Locane, Mark Lindsay Chapman, …

Category: Horror

25 March 20035 March 2020 by Roog

Bram Stoker’s Shadowbuilder (1997)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 6, 2001Shadow Demon

One of several films that came out after the success of Bram Stoker's Dracula claiming Stoker's above their title despite slim or no connection. That said, this is a modestly effective film about a demon that exists in the shadows

Director: Jamie Dixon

Actors: Michael Rooker, Leslie Hope, Kevin Zegers, Andrew Jackson, …

Category: Horror

6 April 20015 March 2020 by Roog

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 8, 2003Dracula Ballet Adaptation

Guy Maddin's reinterpretation of Bram Stoker's Dracula as a ballet and silent movie is an extraordinarily creative work while remaining far more faithful to the original story than many other film versions do

Director: Guy Maddin

Category: Horror

8 August 200314 October 2025 by Roog

Dracula (2002)

Rating: ★★

Feb 26, 2007Modernised Dracula Adaptation

This conducts the interesting idea of updating Bram Stoker's book to the present day with Patrick Bergin as Dracula. Ultimately, this suffers from low tv movie horizons

Director: Roger Young

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Stefania Rocca, Giancarlo Giannini, Hardy Krüger Jr

Category: Horror

26 February 20078 July 2025 by Roog

Dracula (2006)

Rating: ★★

May 19, 2007Dracula Adaptation

BBC costume drama version of the Bram Stoker novel, which offers the most radical take on the story of any version made to date, substantially wrenching around many of the familiar characters

Director: Bill Eagles

Actors: Marc Warren, Sophia Myles, Dan Stevens, Stephanie Leonidas, …

Category: Horror

19 May 200714 October 2025 by Roog

Bram Stoker’s Dracula’s Guest (2008)

Rating: ★

Jul 8, 2015Dracula Film

Possibly the worst Dracula film ever made. Dracula is cast as what looks like a beefy bouncer for a Goth nightclub. Bram Stoker is written as the central character seemingly without anyone having read a single detail about his biography

Director: Michael Feifer

Actors: Andrew Bryniarski, Wes Ramsey, Kelsey McCann, Amy Lydon, …

Category: Horror

8 July 201510 December 2025 by Roog

Dracula (2012)

Rating: ★

Apr 8, 2013Dracula Adaptation

Hard to describe what an utter disappointment Dario Argento's take on the oft-filmed Bram Stoker work is. Argento seems to have entirely lost the mojo and visual flair that made him a cult name. Thomas Kretschmann makes for the screen's mellowest Dracula

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Thomas Kretschmann, Asia Argento, Rutger Hauer

Category: Horror

8 April 201314 October 2025 by Roog

Dracula (2020)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 18, 2020Dracula Adaptation

BBC mini-series retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula that deconstructs and widely expands on sections of the book to create something relentlessly modernistic, sometimes in ways that take you aback

Director: Damon Thomas, Jonny Campbell, Paul McGuigan

Actors: Claes Bang, Dolly Wells, Lydia West, Jonathan Aris, …

Category: Horror

18 January 202022 May 2026 by Roog

Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing (2021)

Rating: ★★

Jul 2, 2021Dracula Adaptation Without Dracula

An adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula that comes with the oddity of featuring no Dracula. This is quite faithful to the book and the period setting looks not to bad on a low budget

Director: Steve Lawson

Actors: Mark Topping, Charlie Bond, Tom Hendryk, Joe Street, …

Category: Horror

2 July 202130 December 2025 by Roog

Dracula: The Original Living Vampire (2022)

Rating: ★★

Oct 17, 2022Dracula Adaptation

The Asylum conduct their own version of Bram Stoker's Dracula and this becomes one of the most radical screen adaptations of the story to date, swapping genders of characters

Director: Maximilian Elfeldt

Actors: Christine Marsh Prouty, Jake Herbert, Ryan Harry Woodcock, Michael Ironside, …

Category: Horror

17 October 20226 July 2026 by Roog

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

Rating: ★★

Sep 16, 2023Vampire Aboard a Ship Voyage

One of a spate of recent films that adapt characters or sections from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this concerns the doomed ship voyage aboard which Dracula travels to England

Director: Andre Øvredal

Actors: Corey Hawkins, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Aisling Franciosi, …

Category: Horror

16 September 202316 August 2026 by Roog

Nosferatu (2024)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 1, 2025Nosferatu Remake

Robert Eggers of The Witch fame conducts a remake of the classic silent Nosferatu. This comes drenched in mood and period detail but Eggers also substantially changes the original

Director: Robert Eggers

Actors: Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, …

Category: Horror

1 February 202512 August 2026 by Roog

Dracula: A Love Tale (2025)

Rating: ★★

Sep 27, 2025Dracula Adaptation

Luc Besson makes a return with an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The surprise about this is that he fairly much uncreditedly remakes Francis Ford Coppola's version of the story

Director: Luc Besson

Actors: Caleb Landry Jones, Christoph Waltz, Zoe Bleu, Guillaume de Tonqueduc, …

Category: Horror

27 September 202512 August 2026 by Roog