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Plus the jokester hasn’t directed a movie since 1995’s “Dracula: Dead and Loving It.”

Despite often pulling double duty, Benton told The Times he saw himself “like Dracula — I don’t leave a trace in the mirror,” and said he is “shaped by who I collaborate with.”

All one really needs to know is she’s trying to control Dracula, and that sets off a war among monsters, with her own coming to her defense.

Bram Stoker's novel Dracula has been adapted numerous times, and vampires in general are never far from our screens.

“I have joked — and it’s not a bad comp — that we’re reaching for Merchant/Ivory doing Hammer Horror,” says Eggers, who staged a version of the Germanic “Dracula” doppelgänger in high school.