First look at Netflix’s Dracula from Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat

Looks a bit long in the tooth (in a mortal way) to be Dracula. I prefer my handsome vampires to have a smoother visage.

When will this be out?

Will it be as good as this?

The JRM version of Dracula was TERRIBLE

I hope this will be good. Most vampire movies are horrible, unfortunately.

The original Dracula had white hair and a mustache.

Stoker writes that Dracula had a thick mustache, a large nose and white hair that "grew scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere." (See how those rumors about Whitman — pictured above — got started?) He describes the Count's general look as "one of extraordinary pallor." Dracula had sharp teeth, pointy ears, squat fingers and hair in the palms of his hands. The sexy, debonair vampire was a creation of later generations.

I'm excited for this - Gatiss and Moffatt are best when they write together.

OP, the guy's perfect. Dark, brooding, and handsome.

Meh. Kind of tired of the stereotypical look. They need a series on Elizabeth Bathory (the female Dracula equivalent).

I want him deep inside me!

THE SQUARE was such pretentious fuckwadery.

There’s a new Dracula every few years. Yawn.

I hope it won't suck.

Boring. We want more witches on TV, not vampers.

R14 Have you seen ‘A Discovery of Witches?’

R15. Yes. It was terrible.

But then again I thought the same about Salem the first time I watched it and have now rewatched all 3 seasons at least 4 or 5 times. I'm big into witchery. If you haven't already watched it, Requiem on Netflix is outstanding and it's a shame there won't be another season.

R17=Minnie Castevet

[italic] What we do in the shadows [/italic] was a great vampire movie (2014). It’s a comedy. Now it’s also a 2019 TV show, which I haven’t seen yet.

R19 I loved it and the series!

What We Do in the Shadows series really picks up after Ep. 3.

Teaser

OP wants to be sucked dry but Dracula, a sophisticated man, will turn up his fangs at any tacky creature who can type "What sayeth.....".

Well, OP Moffat destroyed Doctor Who, and Gatiss is a fat cunt, who stinks as an actor (his Goerge 3 was fucking awful), so I shall watch it to see what it is like

Did Mads Mikkelsen decline? IMO he'd be better suited to play such an iconic role.

r25, He's already played Hannibal Lecter, and is probably tired of doing hour episodics for now.

BDF

This Dracula can suck it.

Judging by Moffat's history, the show will start off with a lot of charm, attract a devoted audience, then start careening off the rails, growing more and more ridiculous as he (abetted by Gatiss) piles complication upon complication and betrays the original canon of Dracula and the rules of the world they've created. And then he'll start snarking on the inevitably disappointed fans, implying that he's the only one who understands what Dracula's all about and that they're taking it all too seriously.

P.S. Then he'll lose interest, hint that he is moving on to more exciting projects, and leave the show as a pile of unresolved loose ends.

Don't care about the Dracula guy, but I am curious as to if there will be hot sex scenes with the Jonathan Harker character.

I enjoyed their Sherlock series. I'd watch this too.

Trailer

Looks a bit shit, doesn't it?

I like the nuns! But the trailers are badly made - just the usual pastiche of stark images and thumping sounds that give no clues about the character of the show. I like the actor they've chosen for Dracula though. I'll give it a watch.

Will premiere on Netflix on January 4.

Will he present dong like Andy Warhol's Dracula?

They've really captured the multicultural society that was London in the 19th century.

I welcome it. I want to see more Hammer-style gothic vampires in movies and tv-series. I want fog, stagecoaches and gloomy castles. I hate how vampires have become just another type of zombie in pop culture.

Frank Langella was hot as Dracula and it was a good movie.

Gatiss claims that one of the special effects was created with Fleshlights.

Vampires and Zombies are so OVER. There needs to be a10 year moratorium on vampires and twenty on Zombies.

r42 It’s the zombie-like vampires and sparkly vampires that suck, not the classic ones.

Just watched the first episode and it is fantastic! Lots of fun.

R44, are you in the UK?

No, in America. Watched through the magic of the Interwebs.

I wasn't expecting Dracula to show ass but glad he did.

I loved it, loved the nun, and Dracula looks a bit like a cross between Robert Urich and James Mason so I love him, too.

Dracula Untold did it for me. Really wished there was a sequel.

I’m looking forward to this on Saturday.

The Diversity and Inclusion® stunt casting kind of takes you out of the story a bit, but Claes Bang's and Dolly Wells' performances keep you watching. They are both FANTASTIC.

Claes Bang has to be the best name for a new Dracula. I can't wait to see this on Netflix.

Hated it. It was really boring.

Reviews are very good but it’s doing poorly in its BBC Broadcast

I was a bit unsure for the first twenty minutes, but it really takes off after that. It’s fabulous!

Claes Bang and Ty Burrell are my fantasy boyfriends. Want them so bad, I can’t even...

Bang is Count DILF but it's team Sister Agatha all the way for me.

After last night's episode I'm counting down the minutes to the final. The 'it's not like the book' brigade must have had a collective stroke at that final scene.

It started out so strong, but episode three is absolutely horrible.

[quote]but episode three is absolutely horrible.

Agreed. Some fine grace notes but on the whole it was awful from direction, production design to character motivation.

The first episode was really great but it went downhill pretty fast from there.

I LOVE Claes Bang's name!

I've only watched episode one so far but quite frankly I'm not impressed. Sure it's fresh in some ways and it was genuinely creepy for a bit but then came the ridiculous long talk between Dracula and the nuns which was just silly. In the end it's just rehashed old material and what's supposedly new is just desperate attempt to make it all matter once again.

Episode one wasn't as terrible as that god awful War of the Worlds but really I can see it getting off the rails properly already.

I can't wait for this. I'm not saying who but one of my very best friends plays one of the leads in it! No, they aren't Dracula, lol.

“I’m asking you, Mr. Harker, if you had sexual intercourse with Count Dracula.”

LOL Love this already

Dolly Wells gave an award-worthy performance.

I don’t like the casting of Dracula and Jonathan Harker. Claes Bing sounds like he’s giving a bad James Mason impression and the Harker actor is just too goofy looking.

It doesn't look very sexy. But it does look well made with great horror visuals.

Utter crap. It started well and the nun was great inthe first episode but went badly off the rails - third episode was clever clever train wreck. Bing is no Louis Jordan who managed to be both sexy and scary as hell.

I'm binging it today. Just started episode 3. Enjoying it so far. Claes Bang is a fantastic Dracula.

Dayum Daddy! 😍

Just want to climb into bed with him and cuddle in his strong arms.

That chest...I can’t even...🤤

He was that guy on the affair?!?!

Him and Furcat are HAAAAWT. Love older men.

I watched 3 episodes, very entertaining!

Lord, it's so campy that I cant stop watching.

Episode 1 and 2 are great. Episode 3 was so bad. Completely different in tone from the first two. Shame.

A few bits of wit and Sister Agatha is a hoot but overall rather lifeless.

Overall I liked it. But yeah, the third is the weakest one revealing the "mystery" behind Dracula's weaknesses. Some scenes remind me of Hannibal and Bryan Fuller's style for visuals.

Claes Bang and Dolly Wells are terrific. The script for all three episodes is dramatically and stylisticly incoherent, but these two fine actors do everything that could be done to hold it together and make the story advance. Ultimately, the writers and the director only use the story as a framework on which to hang a fuck of a lot of CGI.

Claes Bang naked is my favorite bit of television in years.

Turns out Drac was not allergic to sunlight or crosses it was just an old habit. WTF.

R63 they should leave this off their CV then! What a snoozefest. At least Coppola's version was well done and it was camp all at the same time.

[quote]The script for all three episodes is dramatically and stylisticly incoherent

At some point in the production of Sherlock it seems to me Gatiss and Moffatt discovered their personal view of their own genius and fell deeply, deeply in love with it. Since they've written little if anything that doesn't seem like a self indulgent wank so they can allow themselves the pleasure of a high fives while looking down their noses at everybody who doesn't get it.

And then at some point they'll have to pay the bills.

I think each episode had at least something great in them. I was surprised by how John Heffernan made his Harker character's downward spiral so compelling. Loved Agatha as well. The second had the great ship set and the murdery mystery plot. The third had Lydia West as vapid Lucy with a dark streak. And Gatiss as Renfield was hilarious.

All Dracula needed was a 100 year old reincarnated nun/therapist and presto ...cured.

Had just rewatched Can You Ever Forgive Me? and had no clue that the sweet bookstore clerk in that was also Sister Agatha until I checked imdb. Good actress.

R65 A really great actress. She is not hot at all but commands a brilliant presence. A have a little crush on her. I can't wait to see more of her work. They will find a way to bring back this shitstorm to give Bang and Wells another go at some good acting.

I'm an episode in and so far I love it. Why is the Datalounge not more excited about this? It's hot, sexually ambiguous, european vampires for god's sake! Will it be getting a second season? I hope Netflix at least gives it a second season.

R87, it’s not so much the first and second episode, it’s the 3rd episode that is so bad that ruins the whole trilogy.

It was good.

I liked all the nods to the Legosi Dracula.

R88 If you don't mind me asking, what exactly ruined it? I want to know so that I don't end up wasting six hours of my life on it if it really is as bad as people say. I don't mind spoilers.

I sat thru all of it. I was drunk most of the time, but the bits I remember were rather good. There was humor there too, essential for a good Dracula. The van Helsing nun has the best lines.

this shit was dumb and over too soon.

Gawd, this was god awful.

I binged it because I find the main actor to be hawt, and I loved the nun’s quick witted, high intellect.

It could’ve been really damn good. A shame it fell apart in the end.

Why are posters talking about a third episode? The Netflix series as only two episodes. Did BBC configure the series to three episodes?

Sorry, I realized that there were three episodes on Netflix