Before they took on Bram Stoker’s vampire count, co-writers Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen did Crime and Punishment: A Comedy – another title that speaks for itself. Here, Dracula is put through their humour wringer and comes out a pansexual bloodsucker, chasing anyone with a neck.
There are gender and genre inversions galore as Jonathan Harker (Charlie Stemp, good comic timing) treks up the Carpathian mountains to Dracula’s castle. Harker’s fiancee is now Lucy (Safeena Ladha) rather than Mina, who is turned into Lucy’s less eligible sister and played by Sebastien Torkia in ginger-ringleted wig.
