The potential of Hammer’s involvement and reimagining of the immortal horror masterpiece provides only moderately greater gore; worthwhile modifications and the excitement or suspense that might come from it are exceptionally limited.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 8, 2024

This is the first film to really mine the erotic appeal of vampires: Dracula seduces Mina and Lucy like a devil tempting good to the dark side through sex, more suggestive than explicit but daring for 1958.

| Oct 15, 2022

The Hammer Dracula is every bit the classic now as it was back in the 50s and is still the version I mentally refer back to when I see a reference to the classic tale.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 23, 2021

Unlike most of Hollywood's quickies, Horror of Dracula has allocated time, thought and talent to an enterprise which successfully recaptures the aura and patina of yesteryear's Middle Europe. Some of the photography is good enough to frame.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 16, 2021

Not only Hammer's first take on the Bram Stoker classic, but undoubtedly its finest.

| Oct 13, 2020

Of all the Dracula horror pictures thus far produced, this one, made in Britain and photographed in Technicolor, tops them all. Its shock impact is, in fact, so great that it may well be considered as one of the best horror films ever made.

| Oct 13, 2020

Altogether this is a horrific film, and sometimes a crude film. but by no means an unimpressive piece of melodramatic story-telling.

| Jul 31, 2020

A film which the passage of the years has managed to put in its place as one of the best horror titles of all time. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 7, 2020

Morbid and ghoulish though it is, the picture at least has the merit of taking its hideous story quite seriously.

| Oct 31, 2019

A mesmerizing achievement from start to finish.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 22, 2018

Lee is effortlessly cool, fluid and dangerous...

| Jul 23, 2018

At its first showing in a public, non-specialised cinema so many people fainted that it had to be taken off. Well, here you have it red and juicy and over-lifesize as ketchup. Who wants it? Someone, I suppose.

| Jul 13, 2018

Bram Stoker's terrifying vampire creation becomes a modern classic in the adept hands of the House of Hammer.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 7, 2013

This Hammer classic will be good for a laugh, and some shivers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2012

A gore-splattered melodrama steeped in menace, eroticism and repressed sexuality.

| Oct 9, 2012

Photographed in colour by Britain's specialists in horror fantasy, this new adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic achieves effective climaxes, and the staging could hardly be better.

| Feb 23, 2012

This Grand Guignol treatment bowled people over in the 50s, and it still yields some potent shocks.

| Oct 19, 2009

Follows the Bram Stoker novel as loosely as any other adaptation up to that time, though this one is much leaner and meaner.

| Feb 20, 2009

Easily ranks in the pantheon of genre classics.

| Nov 24, 2008

There will never be a greater vampire film than Nosferatu or Vampyr, not ever. But Hammer's Dracula puts up a strong fight to come in at third place.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 4, 2008