There have been very many takes on Bram Stoker's Victorian shocker Dracula , but most of them have quite a bit in common, either adapting, closely or loosely, the book's text, or suggesting a sequel that takes the original as read. Jonathan , the debut film of writer-director Hans W. Geißendörfer in West Germany in 1970, does something else. The Jonathan of the title would appear to be J. Harker, though he's never explicitly named as such, and he's a German villager rather than a London estate agent. Rather than visiting a sinister count on business, he's sent off to be a vampire-hunting secret agent. As bloodsuckers ravage the countryside, his daring mission is to infiltrate the castle of the fiends' leader, free the prisoners, open the doors for an attacking peasant army, and help drive the undead horde into the sea. Which, in a rather flat and disappointing manner, is exactly what happens. Actually, the staging of the climax is great—the problem is merel...