Bram Stoker’s deathless vampire story gets a clever feminist reworking in this new version from writer Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and director Emma Baggott, which still delivers bucketloads of scalp-crawling shocks. It’s framed as a Victorian speaking tour, a re-enactment of events by the novel’s surviving heroine Mina (a fierily compelling Umi Myers).
Dracula himself is invoked by the supporting ensemble of three women, one man and one nonbinary actor: the idea being that he is the manifestation of each character’s worst fear. Gradually, we realise this stirring, spooky, expressionist retelling is no more bound to the 1890s than it is to traditional gender roles.
