Which Dracula Film is Most Faithful to the Book?
Which Dracula movie adaptation is most faithful to the original Bram Stoker book?? I wanted a definitive answer, so I selected 12 contenders and put them up to the test. This counts theatrical and television, but no sequels, spinoffs, or spoofs.
THE CONTENDERS
1922 – Nosferatu “The silent version”
1931 – Dracula “The Lugosi version”
1931 – Dracula “The Spanish version”
1953 – Dracula in Instanbul “The Turkish version”
1958 – Dracula / Horror of Dracula “The Hammer version”
1970 – Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula “The Jesus Franco version”
1973 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula / Dracula “The Jack Palance version”
1977 – Count Dracula “The BBC ’77 version”
1979 – Dracula “The Frank Langella version”
1979 – Nosferatu the Vampyre “The Nosferatu remake”
1992 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula “Coppola’s Dracula”
2006 – Dracula “The BBC ’06 version”
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