Liking this More all the Time

It really is a mess, with the constant mentions of it being night (with darkness visible out windows from the stagecoach on) and exteriors shot in bright daylight. They could have at least provided crickets; the universal signal that it is night. Later in the film, it ceases to be even mentioned and I suppose we could recall that in the novel Dracula, the count is merely weakened by daylight. If we wanted to be charitable.

There is also a puppet bat that is not the worst such I've seen - with the transitions to Carridine in his cape and topper accomplished by flying the bat behind something from which Dracula emerges. Otherwise they don't even bother with a dissolve - Dracula just appears with an edit.

The version I just saw has been cropped at the top and bottom to create artificial widescreen, but this does no harm in this case. Seeing the film in pristine clarity with bright colors is worth the minimal "damage".

Overall, it's fun to see a lot of old western actors in an old timey Hollywood western town and silly as it all is, there is at least one genuinely good moment as Dracula is unseen in a mirror while the woman he is carrying hangs in the air.

Some guy gets credit for the music, but it sounds like library to me, and I recognize one piece I heard in Plan 9 from Outer Space.