To be honest, I've never seen any form of Dracula as much more than camp trying to be scary.
Sure, many of the films are classics, but all that mincing around with wide eyes and swooshy capes and vanting to bite necks doesn't really do it for me (other vampires are much scarier - what about Barlow from 'Salem's Lot, and Van Helsing's daughter in the 1979 Dracula with Frank Langella: "Papa!"... brrr!).
I'll plump for Klaus Kinski's "Nosferatu" - not the official "Dracula" per-se, but close enough in spirit.
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