For too long now, Dracula movies have been an industry, a monster brand unto themselves. At this point, it’s like seeing the umpteenth version of a Shakespeare warhorse or a musical like “Annie” — what is there left to discover? The saga of Dracula has become an endless rerun. And even if you don’t feel like you’ve already lived through a century’s worth of Dracula movies, and that they’ve wrung this story dry, there have been two elaborately eye-catching and overproduced recent versions — “Renfield,” in which Nicolas Cage did his thing as Dracula, and Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu,” in which the ratio of awesome production design to interesting drama was about seven to one.
So here we are again, caught up in the never-ending slow-drip flood of cinematic Dracula mythology, now with Luc Besson’s wan, derivative, dutifully time-period-hopping, different-but-not-really-new take on the vampire legend. The movie,…
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