Rent Dracula: The Original Living Vampire (2022)

'The classic tale as you've never seen.' - Dracula: The Original Living Vampire review by NP

… the ‘original’ living vampire, not this pasty-faced newcomer ‘Morbius (2022)!’ From Asylum films, this ‘mockbuster’ set in designer-Victorian times, takes its title from the original Marvel Morbius comic strips, always subtitled, ‘The living vampire.’

There are some atmospheric recreations of Gothic castles and general Victorian-looking panoramas. I couldn’t work out if they were model work, enhanced actual cityscapes or CGI, which is the whole point, I’m sure.

The historical accuracy is loose at best but looks good, and the actors do a fair job of getting their tongues around some very olde-world dialogue - and fangs - and some very interesting things are done with many characters from the original novel – different genders, different sexual preferences and different beliefs. The result is very talky a lot of the time but features occasional effects that are pretty impressive, and ultimately, I enjoyed this.