10 Best Horror Movie Remakes Of All Time

Whereas Nosferatu offered up an unorthodox (and un-copyrighted) version of Dracula, the real deal got a proper remake himself in 1992, via the mind of Francis Ford Coppola.

While other iterations of the character had taken a pick-and-choose approach to adapting Bram Stoker's original novel, Coppola goes all in. He crafts a grand epic that just so happens to star the most infamous vampire in history. Rather than focusing so much on the concept of Dracula as a monster, Coppola's film is much more interested in the tragic love story between Dracula and Elisabeta. This frees up Gary Oldman to give a much more unorthodox performance and boy is it.

The entire cast gives terrific performances (even Keanu, with his off-puttingly British accent), with Oldman's Dracula and Anthony Hopkin's Van Helsing being especially brilliant. On top of all of this, Coppola's decision to use only period-appropriate camera effects is inspired. The fact that he continuously pushes for a larger and more over-the-top set design and story, all while only working with the effects of decades past is ludicrous, but it gives the film a wonderfully tactile aesthetic.

In an entertainment world that was already moving quickly towards CGI, Coppola went head-first in the opposite direction, and it pays off beautifully in the best Dracula film-to-date.