Who's your favorite big screen Dracula?

[Young Superman]

Who's your favorite big screen Dracula? Mine's Bela Lugosi, the guy had so much charm and charisma, while still being terrifying.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Dominic Purcell.



Just kidding. It's hard to tell who was a worse Dracula... him in Blade 3 or Gerard-Butler-as-Michael-Hutchence-as-Dracula in Dracula 2000.

Anyway... I'd probably go with Bela Legosi too but I have a soft spot for whoever played Drac in The Monster Squad. That guy terrified me as a kid.

 

[The Endless]

Gary Oldman's. I cannot fathom how he didn't get award recognition for that performance.

Oh and of course, Leslie Nielson!

 

[Rowsdower!]

I remember hearing that Sam Worthington was cast as Dracula a whole back. Thank God that movie never happened.

 

[Young Superman]

I remember hearing that Sam Worthington was cast as Dracula a whole back. Thank God that movie never happened.

Agreed

 

[Eddie Dean]

William Marshall as Blacula

 

[Schlosser85]

I don't think there's been a definitive version of Dracula onscreen yet.

 

[Eddie Dean]

I don't think there's been a definitive version of Dracula onscreen yet.

Insanity. Bela Lugosi as Dracula is the first thing that pops into people's minds when they hear Dracula. Chris Lee is up there too.

 

[Breogan]

I guess Count Orlok, Count von Count & Count Chocula are out?

...

 

[Eddie Dean]

Klaus Kinski in Herzog's Nosferatu should count (pun intended). They do call him Dracula.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Rob Zombie as Dragula.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Bela.

 

[Drizzle]

Bela is the most iconic, but my favorite is Gary Oldman. His was the closest to the original book, more or less.

The worst I've seen has got to be Richard Roxburgh in Van Helsing.

 

[jonathancrane]

It's a tie between Lugosi and Roxburgh. Lugosi is iconic, and Roxburgh is fun to watch, as he hams it up.

 

[Ant-manic]

1. Gary Oldman
2. Bela Lugosi
3. Monster Squad

 

[Gort Baringa]

Of course Lugosi put in a definitive performance,

But I would rank Louis Jourdan up pretty high in the BBC miniseries. Apart from him not being elderly in the beginning, this production is fairly faithful to Stoker's novel. When helping Harker with his luggage on arrival at Castle Dracula he coldly instructs Harker to "Shut the door!" His delivery and command of these three short words is chilling.

Sam Worthington was going to be in Dracula Year Zero but now it is called Dracula Untold and Luke Evans is playing Vlad Tepes.

 

[Mightmitenot]

Christopher Lee.

But Louis Jourdan was damned good too.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Gerard Butler.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Bela Lugosi.

 

[Thundarr]

Bela Legosi is the most iconic, and played the character with the most charm.

Christopher Lee, on the other hand, I found to be far more frightening in the role.

 

[Sawyer]

Tom Hardy in the movie adaptation of Dracula that exists only in my mind.

 

[redhawk23]

Gerard Butler.

Wait when did that happen?

 

[Gort Baringa]

Gerard Butler was in Dracula 2000, with an interesting twist on Drac's origin!

 

[Brian Braddock]

For me its Christopher Lee, hands down. By a country mile. Same with Cushing as Van Helsing. I grew up on Hammer films and think they are just amazing.

 

[Brian Braddock]

The worst I've seen has got to be Richard Roxburgh in Van Helsing.

My God, yes.

Hammed it up something rotten and looked less like Dracula and more like the Childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Saying that, was it actually his fault or that of Stephen Sommers - who pretty much f'd up all the Universal monsters in Van Helsing. Seriously, how do you get the characters such as the Universal monsters wrong, in almost every aspect? I'd never have thought it possible. Unless of course, you mess around with them too much, which is what Sommers did.