"Dracula Review: Fresh Blood on the Legend"

"Dracula Review: Fresh Blood on the Legend"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

I really love the treatment of Dracula in this 3 part series. It answers certain things about him and I know that the word subversive has been thrown a lot lately in regard to certain movies or series but this is a subversion of the original material that is both satisfying while adding some fresh blood on the legend as the poster suggests. It makes you wonder. It makes you think. And it even made me laugh several times when I shouldn't have. Dracula is as interesting as the Sister Agatha. Two thumbs up to such a well written series.

The Good:

The Writing is topnotch and the twist given on each of the characters are really interesting to watch. Fan favorite Agatha Van Helsing drives the whole narrative in her quest to understand the vampire of old.

I particularly chuckled when Dracula's lawyer showed up and he had to explain how he came to being his lawyer.

The Bad:

Probably the short but sweet run of the series. 

The Ugly:

1) The Sufferers. Well they have been undead but not blessed with the ability to be vampires so they get twisted into boxes and wish to die.

2) The sequences where you think you are making love to a beautiful woman and then find that it was Dracula on top of you the whole time. Not really ugly in how they did it but I had to put something here.

All in all this was a great run and maybe down the line they could put the other monsters on the same stage as Dracula. That would certainly be a treat.