Hotel Transylvania (2012)

Dracula runs a hotel for monsters and cannot cope with his teenage daughter.

Make the Count a protective single father, and the crisis is a human who falls for his daughter.

You are watching with children, or you want ninety minutes of Dracula as an overprotective dad.

What it keeps and what it changes

Keeps: Dracula, his castle, and a cast of classic monsters.
Changes: the genre, the audience and the Count’s whole job. It is an animated family comedy.

Whose story is it?

Dracula’s and his daughter Mavis’s.

How much time does it ask?

1 hr 31 min, Genndy Tartakovsky directing; Adam Sandler voices Dracula.

Sony Pictures Animation, rated PG.

Where to find it

Blu-ray + DVD — Amazon

Other ways to get it: Apple TV · Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch

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More Draculas: Nosferatu (1922) · Dracula (1931) · Dracula (1958), or Horror of Dracula