This is making a large mountain out of a molehill...
Dracula travels from Transylvania to London via ship... and from that an entire movie was made. Watch we are introduced to a whole crew of people, of whom we already know who survives.
Actually, that is a point. Are people seeing this who don't know the story, at least in a general sense? How many people are seeing this as some "ship with monster" story without knowing where it originated? I doubt everyone who sees this has read the original, but likely know that this is Dracula by osmosis... although this movie never names him as such.
What we get is a slow stalking of the crew, and they are picked off one by one (or sometimes more than one). Dracula is very much in beast mode, which doesn't really jibe with the book, but clearly the makers thought this more cinematic. However, usual beast stories end with the beast being dealt with in some way or another and a Final Girl getting away, but as I mentioned, this isn't that story, so we are not getting out with happy feelings.
And yet, I can't bring myself to get to invested, as this is making much out of a few lines in the book, so these are completely original characters that the movie wants us to care about, but again we know nothing will come of them... unless the movie really wants us to invest some spin off series with "the one man who stood against Dracula... despite never having been mentioned before." [Now Dracula is public domain, so the movie can do what it wants, but it's already decided to dabble in the exact dialogue of the book for the main "plot" of the movie, so odd it would think this is the way to go.]
More excited Dracula fans that me may be into this, but from looking at the rating on IMDB, I don't think we'll be getting a Dracula-verse just yet.
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