Bram

“It’s been overwhelmingly positive. I’m sure that some people have issues, but the first book was number one on the New York Times bestsellers list and won the Bram Stoker Award and won the Eisner Award. The second one won the Hugo Award. It seems that people think that we’re doing a pretty decent job.”

The four-time Oscar-nominated actor is talking to me for Radio 4's Today programme about Robert Eggers' remake of the 1922 silent film of the same name, which was an unauthorised adapatation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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

The remake of the silent horror classic pits Von Franz against Bill Skarsgård’s ghastly Count Orlok, the Dracula figure in this Germanic riff on Bram Stoker’s vampire tale.

“Nosferatu” began its undead life in 1922 as a silent, unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula.”