Critics were mixed on John Badham’s (SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER) adaptation of Bram Stoker’s enduring 1897 novel, simultaneously praising and scratching their heads at the moody melodrama, marketed with the tagline, “Throughout history, he has filled the hearts of men with terror, and the hearts of women with desire.” Badham’s Count Dracula is brought to undead life by Frank Langella (reprising his Tony Award-nominated performance), and through Williams’ operatic and thunderous score, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The film ages well as a gothic romance that is equal parts campy and sincere, a tragic love story that Roger Ebert lauded as “a triumph of performance, art direction, and mood over materials that can lend themselves so easily to self-satire.”