Best Dracula Film?

No... it depends on how many versions of "Dracula" you have seen.

The 'good' portrayals I've seen are:

- Nosferatu {1922} - Max Schreck as Dracula

- Dracula {1931} - Bela Lugosi as Dracula

- Horror Of Dracula {1958}
- Prince Of Darkness {1966} - Christopher Lee as Dracula

- Nosferatu {1979} - Klaus Kinski as Dracula

- Dracula {1979} - Frank Langella as Dracula

- Dracula {1992} - Gary Oldman as Dracula


Of course there are other film renditions of Dracula (many bad ones)... but those are the portrayals that stand out...

Bela Lugosi is the best Dracula... but the German silent film "Nosferatu" in 1922 is the best 'Dracula' film.

No, but it's good, and Peter Cushing, for me, is easily the best Van Helsing.

Bela Lugosi's 1931 DRACULA was the performance that defined the character for all time -- that inflection, malevolent carriage, etc. The film isn't that creative, but as an early-talky, it's effective enough.

I have a fondness for Frank Langella's stylish 1979 DRACULA which, despite having fallen on hard times in terms of respect in recent years, was one of the most mesmerizing film interpretations of the story (and was a major horror rental in the '80s).

Gary Oldman brilliantly channels Lugosi in his 1992 DRACULA which, as directed by Francis Coppola, was a bit of a visual masterpiece (so why don't I like it any more than I do?)

There are other versions, the silent NOSFERATU from 1922, and then its 1979 redo.

But one has to give HORROR OF DRACULA with Cushing and Lee was the first "important" version since Lugosi. Plus, made by Hammer Studios in Technicolor and bombastic score and in-your-face shock effects, this version made one of the biggest impacts of any of the numerous remakes over the decades. It's not the most subtle spin on the story but it doesn't try to be, and the cast is good.

Is this 1958 version the "best"? No, but it's up there, more a result of style than anything else. Lee's vampire isn't the most seductive or eerie we've ever seen, but more of a domineering kinky bastard sort of guy. (I don't care much for the subsequent Cushing/Lee sequels, though).

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I gotta go with Bela Lugosi's Universal flick. This might be third on my rankings. "Dracula 2000" honestly may be my second favorite.

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Yes

Yes, this sets the standard. Lee's following two Dracula movies were also excellent.

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Don't forget that Jack Palance played Dracula in a made-for-tv movie from 1974 variously known as "Dracula" and "Dan Curtis's Dracula." I haven't seen in for about 40 years, but I remember it being quite good. One scene that stands out is when Van Helsing and one of the other hunters has Dracula cornered and he utters Stoker's great line:

"So, you play your wits against mine. Me, who commanded armies hundred of years before you were born."

And Palance, in addition to being one of the most intense actors this side of George C. Scott, is much closer in age and appearance to Stoker's character.

I've wanted to see this again like forever.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070003

I just found the script too:

http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/dracpala.txt