Guy Maddin's unusual take on Bram Stoker's story sets members of Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet against the director's version of a silent movie. The result is a hauntingly graceful vision of the late-Gothic novel, peppered with high camp.

| Jan 15, 2018

... the most startlingly original and creative reading of the novel ever put to film.

| Dec 21, 2010

Though it sounds like an offbeat idea even for horror fans, the tech work is so well done that it could disarm unwary buffs attracted by the campy title.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2007

An elaborate, self-conscious but arresting take on the Dracula myth.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2007

A fevered, sexy take on the material, it plays up the desires of the female players, the repression of the men and Dracula's status as all-purpose object of dread and desire.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 1, 2006

By the end, you'll wonder why all films aren't made this way.

| Feb 11, 2006

| Original Score: A- | Aug 7, 2004

Marries B&W silent horror-movie style with beautifully eerie ballet in a succulently cinematic, lustfully melodramatic adaptation that is at once wholly unique and uncommonly faithful to Bram Stoker's classic novel.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2004

Anybody whoâ(TM)s willing to bring their own ideas about sex, love, and bloodletting to the film will likely find themselves sucked into Maddinâ(TM)s growing cult.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 18, 2004

It's a throwback to the days when horror movies often had a certain visual grandeur. And while one may miss a modern frisson or two, there's still a great deal of dreadful beauty to relish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2004

This film does for ballet what Robert Altman's recent dud The Company couldn't: It brings the dance form alive on screen, at once making it sexy, stylish and relevant.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 10, 2004

Much of it is dazzling and erotic, a postmodern variation on a theme of German expressionism and Gothic horror.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 2, 2004

Attractive art house picture.

| Jan 15, 2004

Relying on the stage performance alone, there is little interesting about watching Dracula, Lucy, or Nina, pirouetting and prancing within their milieu.

| Original Score: F | Dec 31, 2003

It's a thoroughly rousing parade of invention. And visual? Like nothing you've ever seen.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Dec 12, 2003

It will no doubt leave ballet fans somewhat nonplussed, but this evocative danse macabre is an unusually insightful addition to the Count's long list of cinematic appearances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 25, 2003

In a year in which so many movies have (pun intended) sucked, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary stands even higher as a triumph of artistry and entertainment.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 27, 2003

Much more about the hows (and maybe the whys) than it is about the whats.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 23, 2003

A diversion that only makes you wish you could have seen Royal Winnipeg's original ballet.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2003

It's far and away the most original symphony of terror since F.W. Murnau raised hackles and Schrecks with his 1922 Nosferatu.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2003