Have you seen Dracula 2000?
A somewhat cheesy late 90s horror film that feels like Scream more than Bram Stoker, but has a great performance by Christopher Plummer as Van Helsing and Gerard Butler as Dracula.
The most innovative idea in the film is that Dracula is actually Judas Iscariot, forced to walk the Earth as an undead for betraying Jesus. It also explains why crosses and holy water damage him.
It has a B movie feel, but I always thought that twist was unique.
I remember Love At First Bite, with George Hamilton.
Recently read a news blip about a movie coming out in August. It's called "Last Voyage of the Demeter."
I'm at the tail-end of a book by Doug Lamoreax called "Dracula's Demeter." The book isn't connected to the movie. According to Wikipedia, the movie "is an adaptation of 'The Captain's Log', a chapter from the 1897 Bram Stoker novel Dracula."
Have you seen the 70s PBS version with Louis Jourdan as the count?
Very true to the book.
Couldn’t stand that movie, but I DO like that plot twist. If it had been done with skill and class, perhaps.