Far more than a behind-the-scenes documentary, Vampir-Cuadecuc is a complete reinvention of Jess Franco's commercial horror film Count Dracula (1970). By working in 16mm, stripping narrative scenes of sound, combining original music from composer Carles Santos with extracts from Wagner's Ring Cycle, and establishing a new audiovisual montage, director Pere Portabella distills the Dracula myth to its essence. Vampir-Cuadecuc is as primal and elemental an adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel as F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu. The film's originality, sense of texture, and photogenic power makes it one of Portabella's signature achievements and one of the defining works of Spanish independent cinema.