Dracula

Dracula (2020) 

Apart from Leslie Nielsen in Dracula: Dead and Loving It, the Count has probably never been funnier. No, seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed his new version and deliberately didn't look here in the comments between episodes because I knew there would be a lot of complaining. And there was. Who can stomach what the writers have done to Stoker's premise? But hand on heart, was it even worth retelling for the umpteenth time? I mean, no, after the trailer I was already sorry that the Sherlock creators didn't set Dracula in the present day as well, it took no more than the first episode to make me not care. Yet after the classically conceived beginning, the plot quickly takes different (albeit familiar) path and it's more or less a classic horror film with one twist after another. The second part is like an Agatha Christie whodunit, and by the end you wonder what on earth is going to happen in the last part, and there's another surprise. It's bold, original, and fun, all the while sure of where it's going... It's great stuff. (05/01/2020)