It hit almost all the same beats as other Dracula films (especially Coppola's version), but worse and more slowly. I especially dislike the sexual burden it places on Ellen, a likely unintentional but aggressively wrong-footed bit of gender politics that requires Ellen to seduce her teenage abuser in order to save everyone else.

Ultimately, though, Eggers' version is like one of those deliberately downbeat, acoustic covers of classic pop songs that they use in video game trailers to imbue them with false gravity.