We also meet Dracula's apostle, the lunatic Renfield (Kevin McMonagle) who is in the insane asylum next door to the Westenra household. This is also the part of the story where we meet Dr. Van Helsing (played by Mick Ford) and see the continuation of the story of the prostitute Lilith (Åslög Von Roos) who has been sent in a box by Dracula to the Satanist Mr Hawkins (Simon Usher), Jonathan Harker’s employer. The development of the religious and philosophical ideas in the film, as well as its genuine descent into the underworld of lust and living death, make this film one of the most fulfilling, serious and thoughtful of all Dracula films

The Four Gospels of Dracula the Messiah is an incredible epic of four full length films, lasting a total of 6 hours. It closely follows the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker, while also adding some elements which deepen and develop some of the ideas found in the novel. One of the central themes of the film is the rebellion against God and against the fact of death, as God has decreed it to be. The film also introduces the character of Lilith, (later found in her own film, ‘Lilith’, 2022) who is a focus of the violence and passion of Dracula, and who herself surpasses Dracula in her simple-minded pursuit of sex and death and violence.

The development of the religious and philosophical ideas in the film, as well as its genuine descent into the underworld of lust and living death, make this film one of the most fulfilling, serious and thoughtful of all Dracula films, and one that measures against the best of the 200 or so Dracula films; in terms of its closeness to the novel and its pursuit of the seriousness and darkness of its themes, this film ranks alongside ‘Nosferatu’ 1922, ‘Vampyr’ 1932, ‘Dracula’ 1931, ‘Nosferatu’ 1979, films that also capture in their different ways the archetypal truths of Stoker's disturbing novel.