“Finland offers the frosty setting (along with Budapest) in an entertaining adaptation with a lofty evocative score by Danny Elfman and fabulous images by DoP Colin Wandersman”
– Meredith Taylor / Filmuforia

“Better than [Robert] Eggers’ wildly overrated Nosferatu”
– Peter Hegevall / Gamereactor UK

“Occasionally wild and permanently dark”
– Filipe Freitas / Always Good Movies

“This Bram Stoker adaptation from writer-director Luc Besson is in its own way as odd as Robert Eggers’ third go at Nosferatu…  Indeed, Besson riffs off earlier takes on the novel, most especially Dan Curtis and Richard Matheson’s and Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, while stirring in his own concerns and obsessions and making changes to the story and characters as radical as those of the two relatively recent TV series called Dracula. — Danny Elfman’s score plays around with themes from Wojciech Kilar’s music for Coppola, but also tips in bits of John Williams’ lush romantic 1979 Dracula score and – oddly – Krystzof Komeda’s Rosemary’s Baby (not his equally shivery Dance of the Vampires) with tiny tinkles that echo Claudio Gizzi’s Blood for Dracula —
Full of wonderful, even original imagery — surprising, amusing and strange.”
– Kim Newman / The Kim Newman Website