 Recent reviews of Dracula 's Daughter are sharply split . Entertainment Weekly , reviewing the film following its video release , called it " one of the most satisfying vampire pictures ever made " . Describing director Hillyer 's visuals as " lush , evocative , and suffused with just the right gothic chiaroscuro " and noting that " Gloria Holden , as the reluctant vampire protagonist , absolutely drips patrician eroticism " , EW concludes that this film is better than Lugosi 's original Dracula . 
