Dracula (1958 film) Dracula (1958 film) Dracula is a 1958 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster based on Bram Stoker's novel of the same name. The first in the series of Hammer Horror films starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, this original also features Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, along with Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, and John Van Eyssen. In the U.S. the film was retitled Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the earlier "Dracula" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi, and the film was released in the U.S. in 1958 on a double feature
Dracula 3D film was also criticized for its look and visual effects, with "TV Guide" opining that "despite some attractive costumes and sets, "Argento's Dracula" is a sparse, cheap-looking movie, with visual effects that would have been rejected on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"." Likewise, "Fangoria" faulted the film for containing "some of the worst visual FX for a film of this stature in recent memory." Dracula 3D Dracula 3D is a 2012 vampire horror film co-written and directed by Dario Argento and starring Thomas Kretschmann, Rutger Hauer, Marta Gastini, and Unax Ugalde. An Italian-Spanish-French co-production, the film is Argento's first 3D film.