{"id":2271088,"date":"2026-02-07T07:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2271088"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:51:08","slug":"dracula-review-caleb-landry-jones-is-a-stylishly-fey-dracula-gary-oldman-redux-in-luc-bessons-otherwise-wan-potboiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dracula-review-caleb-landry-jones-is-a-stylishly-fey-dracula-gary-oldman-redux-in-luc-bessons-otherwise-wan-potboiler\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dracula\u2019 Review: Caleb Landry Jones Is a Stylishly Fey Dracula \u2014 Gary Oldman Redux \u2014 in Luc Besson\u2019s Otherwise Wan Potboiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">For too long now, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5777032\/\">Dracula<\/a> movies have been an industry, a monster brand unto themselves. At this point, it\u2019s like seeing the umpteenth version of a Shakespeare warhorse or a musical like \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083564\/\">Annie<\/a>\u201d \u2014 what is there left to discover? The saga of Dracula has become an endless rerun. And even if you don\u2019t feel like you\u2019ve already lived through a century\u2019s worth of Dracula movies, and that they\u2019ve wrung this story dry, there have been two elaborately eye-catching and overproduced recent versions \u2014 \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11358390\/\">Renfield<\/a>,\u201d in which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000115\/\">Nicolas Cage<\/a> did his thing as Dracula, and Robert Eggers\u2019 \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5040012\/\">Nosferatu<\/a>,\u201d in which the ratio of awesome production design to interesting drama was about seven to one.<\/p>\n<p>So here we are again, caught up in the never-ending slow-drip flood of cinematic <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31434030\/\">Dracula<\/a> mythology, now with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000108\/\">Luc Besson<\/a>\u2019s wan, derivative, dutifully time-period-hopping, different-but-not-really-new take on the vampire legend. The movie,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For too long now, Dracula movies have been an industry, a monster brand unto themselves. At this point, it\u2019s like seeing the umpteenth version of a Shakespeare warhorse or a musical like \u201cAnnie\u201d \u2014 what is there left to discover? The saga of Dracula has become an endless rerun. 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