Which Dracula movie adaptation is most faithful to the original Bram Stoker book?? I wanted a definitive answer, so I selected 12 contenders and put them up to the test. This counts theatrical and television, but no sequels, spinoffs, or spoofs.

THE CONTENDERS
1922 Nosferatu "The silent version"
1931 Dracula "The Lugosi version"
1931 Dracula "The Spanish version"
1953 Dracula in Instanbul “The Turkish version”
1958 Dracula / Horror of Dracula "The Hammer version"
1970 Bram Stoker's Count Dracula "The Jesus Franco version"
1973 Bram Stoker's Dracula / Dracula "The Jack Palance version"
1977 Count Dracula "The BBC '77 version"
1979 Dracula "The Frank Langella version"
1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre "The Nosferatu remake"
1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula "Coppola's Dracula"
2006 Dracula "The BBC '06 version”

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