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Dracula - The Dark Compass

episode 3

UK 2020
produced by
Larry Tanz, Ben Irving, Mark Gatiss (executive), Steven Moffat (executive), Sue Vertue (executive) for Hartswood Films/BBC, Netflix
directed by Paul McGuigan
starring Claes Bang, Dolly Wells, Lydia West, Matthew Beard, Mark Gatiss, Chanel Cresswell, Lyndsey Marshal, Paul Brennen, John McCrea, Phil Dunster, Polly Kemp, Sarah Niles, Millicent Wong, Sofia Oxenham, Kiran Shah, Anthony Kaye, Anna Swan, Cat White, Corinna Wilson, Olivia Klein (as Olivia Talbot)
screenplay by Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, based on the novel by Bram Stoker, music by David Arnold, Michael Price

TV miniseries
Dracula, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's Dracula

review by
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Dracula (Claes Bang) has risen from his watery grave and walked to the shore of England - and right into the clutches of Zoe Helsing (Dolly Wells) and her goons from the Jonathan Harker Foundation who want to research him. He manages to make good an escape, but is easily tracked down with modern technology. However, in the meantime he has sucked some blood and with it knowledge of the modern era, so once incarcerated by the foundation who want to study his condition, he's quick to call his lawyer Renfield (Mart Gatiss), who's quick to broker his release. He soon learns about young, beautiful and vapid Lucy Westenra (Lydia West), for whom he soon develops a sort of fascination.

Three months later: Dracula continues to meet Lucy, even though she's about to marry the American Quincey (Phil Duster), and she lets him suck a bit of her blood at every session, just enough to give her dreams - but eventually he sucks her dry. She's cremated at her funeral, but canb escape before the flames consume her totally. Meanwhile Jack Seward (Matthew Beard), an ex still in love with Lucy, looks for advice from Zoe regarding Lucy's death, but finds Zoe dying from cancer, which makes her blood poisonous to Dracula. Still, the two make their way to Dracula, just in time to see him welcome a badly burnt Lucy - and things take a turn for the weird nobody has expected ...

 

While part 1 of this three-parter followed Stoker's novel a bit too slavishly, and part 2 took a more improvisational approach, this third part really goes wild. Sure, there's the odd reference to the book, but it re-interprets the source's goings-on so radically it feels like little more than name-dropping - and actually, this episode has much more to do with Hammer's modern day Dracula movies from the 1970s than anything Stoker has ever written - and it enjoys just that, being at times gruesome, campy, intentionally comedic, and overall post modernist about things. The outcome isn't great in the traditional sense of the word, but that said a fun romp that die-hard Dracula fans most probably will not enjoy, but if you like your horror with a grain of salt, you'll probably find something to chuckle about here.

 

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