This particular “Dracula” adaptation gets a bad wrap for A) not being as good as the best films of Francis Ford Coppola‘s career and B) Keanu Reeves’ atrocious British accent. The latter complaint is fair, but the former definitely isn’t. “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” is a now-underrated gem that manages to be more faithful to the source material than most adaptations, while also delivering a lavish sense of style all its own — thanks to the director’s mandate to do so many of the film’s impressive special and visual effects in-camera, using old-school/classic filmmaking techniques. Gary Oldman‘s haunted and dark AF performance as Dracula alone makes this worth a watch.
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