To me, this movie is perfection.

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Major spoilers ahead - you've been warnedpros: The film is beautifully faithful to the original novel - with some changes, i.e., Quincey dies in the raid of Carfax, and Mina is the Killer of Dracula – which I personally love, her line afterwards is beautiful – the film is set in Modern Day and seems to carry some Religious overtones; which, is why Mina kills the Count – she is intent on saving the world, the overall theme of the film. There is absolutely *no love*between Mina and the Count, as Stoker never once included a reincarnation plot, Mina loves Jonathan and loathes the count – thank Palance's film for the reincarnated love story, which in my opinion belongs nowhere near the story, unless it's Mina and Jonathan. The modern setting does not hinder the film, it actually pokes fun at horror tales, referencing that Dracula might have been played by Boris Karloff in their universe. The characters are fun, I will never say that they are great, the script works against them, but they are fun: Mina challenges the Count at every step she has with him, Jonathan is a conflicted soul, Quincey is vapid, Arthur is whiny, and Lucy is so much fun – she has so much fun playing the coquette. Van Helsing "Enrico Valenzi as he's called in this" is the ever-knowing Vampire Hunter, and he's good at it. Bergen as Dracula is miscast, however, he plays his part well – both as the old man - with his homoerotic tones towards Jonathan - and as the younger 'Nephew' in the Budapest scenes. Overall this film is beautiful for what it has to work with; it's not much, don't go in expecting any award winning material, it is fun however to watch, and I am grateful I got that chance. Cons: The film is made on a MFT budget, which is neither here nor there, however it shows in the effects, lack of nudity, and special effects – but, ask yourself: are all the gratuitousness necessary in retrospect - although I would not have minded a butt-shot of Hardy Kruger Jr. or a bit more erotic evil in the case of Muriel Bauermeister. There is an original 3-hour film, which is not available to American Audiences and probably clears the air with some unfinished plot holes "Reonfield's Wife, Reonfield himself, the Weird Sisters "the Brides of Dracula" – so the diced film works against it. overall view: personally I give it 10/10 because I have seen so much worse when it comes to Dracula adaptions, and this one, by comparison is the Oscar-Winner, Academy-Winner, and others, simply by comparison. Steffania Rocca and Muriel Bauermeister are GORGEOUS as Mina and Lucy Hardy Kruger Jr. and Kai Weisinger are delightful as Harker and Seward. Hardy Kruger Jr. is such a hunk. Bergen - although miscast - and Giannini are nicely done in their roles.However, I suggest you make your own interpretations of this film, and if I must give an unbiased review, then I saw 7/10the budget, sets, effects, and script work against it, as does the dicing and unfinished plot lines – that's it, really.

this is the worst film I've ever seen... actually. i thought it was duty to warn all the people out there as in the 1 review of it on here the person claims that it was quite good and incomprehendably gives it 8 out of 10. well in case you believed him think twice. i got this film in a vampire films boxset (of which most of the films were awful - my bad) and everything about it is absolutely disgraceful. its like they've purposely taken everyfing good from the novel and tried to make it rubbish or turn it into a joke... bram stoker must be turning in his grave... at the start its quite funny just how awful it really is but after a while it just becomes boring and painful.... avoid at all costs

In the present days, in a ballroom of a hospital charity party in Budapest, the successful American lawyer Jonathan Harker (Hardy Krüger Jr.) surprisingly proposes his girlfriend Mina (Stefania Rocca) to get married with him on the next week. Their common friends Lucy (Muriel Baumaster), Quincy (Alessio Boni) and Arthur (Conrad Hornby) have been invited by Jonathan and have just arrived for their wedding without the awareness of Mina. Meanwhile, they are introduced to the promoter of the party, the psychiatrist Dr. Seward (Kai Wiesinger), and they stay together along the night. Later in the same night, Jonathan is called by a rich client, Tepes (Patrick Bergin), who hires him to prepare the inventory of the wealth of his uncle, the count Vladislav Tepes (Patrick Bergin), in Romania. Jonathan travels to the Carpathian Mountains in his Porsche, has an accident and finally arrives in the count's old castle. From this moment on, his life and the lives of his friends are jeopardize by a terrible menace. "Dracula" is an excellent contemporary version of Bram Stoker's famous novel. I expected a bad movie, based on the low IMDb User Rating, but this movie is surprisingly good. I have watched it on VHS in a version of 104 minutes, and I found many favorable points. The locations are amazingly beautiful; the camera and the photography are excellent, inclusive the introduction in a ballroom is fantastic; the story is a great adaptation of the Bram Stoker's novel to the present days; last but not the least, the unknown (at least for me) actress Muriel Baumaster is certainly one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen on the screen. The important role of Jonathan deserved a better actor, but anyway, fans of vampire movies like me will not be disappointed with this version. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "O Beijo do Drácula" ("The Kiss of the Dracula")

This is quite an interesting series not because of its faithfulness to Bram Stoker's novel but because it introduces modern versions of the characters and as the novel reported Stoker's concerns for the problems of his time this one reports our concerns for our own time.Spoilers ahaid.As in the novel Vlad Tsepes, here caling himself Count Vladimir Tsepes, decides to leave his castle and move to the west.Here his reasons are that he feels tired from Rumania's decline and the seclusion of his life during the last centurie or so.Thus he decides to move to Budapest of Hungary.He wants to raise an armie of vampires and he goes there to search for recruits since he now only has three female vampires.There he discusses he pursuits the Carfax manor by doing some illegal business with businessman Jonathan Harker.He also wants Jonathan's help in turning his colection of paintings, jewels and his gold deposit to cash.Jonathan's friends fellow businessman Quincey Morris, specialising in money swindles, and Arthur Holmwood, a British diplomat that is in a dept and is realy in need of money offer to help.Though Jonathan and Arthur have their doubts about the deal Quincey convinces them that money is all that matters and its one true power that makes the world go around.Along with the three are Jonathan's girlfriend Mina Murray, with strong moral values and does her best to help orphanages and hospitals, and her friend Lucy Westenra, a true sexual predator.She also introduces to the gang her new lover and Dr.Seward, much to Arthur's disappointment since he is love with her.Dracula gets very interested in those three young men, hungry for money and power, Lucy who wants to sleep in many beds, in many cities , have new experiences and live for ever and Mina who wants to change the world and end human suffering.They all seem as fine recruits.Throughout the film Dracula tries to seduce all five of them into his own world, make them wish to become vampires.Focusing again and again on how hyprotical morality is and promising them the loss of their conciense that now bothers them.Convincing them that survival of the fittest is the proper way and even the strong can't save the weak.And referencing God's slaughters in the Bible to prove that humanity was created in his image, the image of a kiler.There to stop him is the researcher of the occult and Seward's teacher Dr. Enrico Valenzi(instead of Dr. Abraham Van Helsing) the one who believes that Dracula can be defeated when he faces a strong will enpowered by faith.But throughout this film he raises more and more self-doubts and his will is almost broken by the end.Its Mina, half-way through her transformation to a vampire, that manages to make Dracula trust her and kills him as he holds her in an embrace.The films end with Mina still having the vampire's mark and how that affects is remain a question.This film offers a unic take on the legend placed in our modern world , seen as corrupt, who seems to care only about money.Dracula's true power here is the power to make others doubt their beliefs and search for securitie ... in his grasp.Should be seen by those interested in a modern and truly seductive version of the immortal Vampire.