"And yet it has to be said: his lavishly upholstered vampire romance has ambition and panache and in all its Hammer-y cheesiness, I'm not sure I wouldn't prefer to it to Robert Eggers's recent, solemnly classy version of Nosferatu. There are some very bizarre touches, including one shot that appears to show a land border between France and Romania."
"Christoph Waltz plays a witty yet careworn vampire-hunting priest I can't believe he hasn't played this role before who finds himself in Paris in 1889 for the French Revolution centenary celebrations. So does the evil Count Dracula, played by the body-horror veteran Caleb Landry Jones with a mangled central European accent reminiscent of Steve Carell's Gru from the Despicable Me comedies. This is a part that he too was born to take on."
The film follows Count Dracula, who has roamed the world for 400 years in anguish after becoming undead as punishment for irreligious grief over his wife Elisabeta. The count searches for a woman who is the reincarnation of his lost love and fixes on Mina, the fiancée of land agent Jonathan Harker, whose portrait attracts the count. The story shifts to Paris in 1889 during centenary celebrations, featuring a vampire-hunting priest and eccentric, often farcical scenes. The production blends lavish period style, Hammer-like cheesiness, global-costume spectacle, and odd visual touches alongside comic moments and body-horror performance.
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