"Director Alan Gibson ignores the psychedelic kitsch that he gave Dracula 1972 AD, instead giving this film a gritty and sombre outlook whilst maintaining the films modern day setting. The plot, involving Dracula spreading the black-death throughout the world to destroy the human race, is the stuff of James Bond films. In fact the whole film plays more like a Sixties spy movie than a horror film... Strangely enough Dracula didn't really need to be in the film as the rest of the cast provide enough scares and excitement to make the film work; it's almost as if Hammer already had a storyline and then added in Dracula at the last minute. Saying that it's all great fun, providing your tongue is firmly in your cheek and you don't hold the earlier Hammer Dracula films in to high a reverence." - David Michael Brown, Digital Retribution