With this lavish retelling of an oft-told tale, Dracula puts the male vamp back in vampire. Director John Badham and Frank Langella pull off a handsome, moody rendition, more romantic than menacing [based on a stage play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel].

Read the Empire Movie review of Dracula. Some interesting creative choices make this more a curio than a great...

What an elegantly seen Dracula this is, all shadows and blood and vapors and Frank Langella stalking through with the grace of a cat. The film is a triumph of

DRACULA Directed by John Badham Screenplay by W.D. Richter This is the expensive Dracula that the gang at Hammer films must have dreamed of making back in the '50s and '60s. The legend had...