Love me some Gothic horror and god damned if I wasn’t satisfied. Gorgeous, had a bit of fun addressing some of the more problematic trappings of the genre in how it treats women.
Remade some of the amazing shots from the original film, maintained a fantastic creeping horror and dread, lots of truly disgusting practical effects, and some original and well realised additions.
Absolutely fab.
Vampire fiction has always had a sexual element to it, the OG Dracula was very much about sexual repression in Victorian society. It’s probably one of the most consistently horny genres of fiction ever. Also Nosferatu is a blood sucking demon.
If it’s not your cup of tea that’s fine, but between it being about Dracula and the director having a reputation for not shying away from graphic or uncomfortable subject matter idk how anyone expected it NOT to have gore and sex.