Goofs

The glass lid on Lucy's coffin disappears midway through the scene. When the men look into the coffin, the lid is present, but when Lucy walks over to the coffin, she gets in without having to open the lid.

When Jack Seward is interviewing Renfield in his cell and is subsequently attacked by him, Renfield bites him on the right side of the neck. When the orderlies run in to restrain Renfield, Seward grabs the left side of his neck as if in pain.

The vampire woman tears open Jonathan's shirt but it's previously shown to be already unbuttoned.

In the scene where we are introduced to the men courting Lucy, we see Dr. Seward sitting in the sofa, while Quincy Morris is standing besides him. Quincy is clearly holding his hat in his hands. Moments later, when Holmwood enters the room, Dr. Seward rises and reveals that he has been sitting on Quincy's hat.

The first time we see the Count's carriage, the wheels are covered, but when Jonathan looks down past the wheels to look down the side of the cliff, they are "open".

When Lucy shows Mina the illustrations in "Arabian Nights," the art is not Islamic but Indian. Specifically, they are in the style of Mogul miniatures.

Varna was/is a Bulgarian port, not a Romanian port.

When Harker cuts himself shaving, it should take a second or so for blood to appear and the razor would have very little blood on it, certainly not the large amount smeared on the blade that Dracula licks off.

In the opening scene, it says that Constantinople was captured by the Turks in year 1462. In actuality, it was captured by the Turks on May 29, 1453.

Upon his arrival in London, Dracula and Mina attend a cinematograph film from France. London police would have certainly shut down the erotic show for public indecency under contemporary statutes, and Mina as a proper Victorian young woman would have been horrified by the images, instead of showing indifference.

When Mina and Vlad are at the cinematograph, the films being shown are moving very smoothly, without the jerky movement typical of early silent films. However, although many of the early silent films did have jerky movements because they were filmed at a lower frame rate than what is used today, this does not apply to every film of that era. The earliest silent films actually had a variety of frame rates, between 14 and 26 frames per second (24 frames per second is today's standard). One example of an early silent film without jerky movements is the 1896 short film The Kiss.

After Jonathan's hair turns gray, throughout the rest of the film, it goes back to being dark again, with very little gray, and switches back to gray. However, this is an effect of Jonathan having been subjected to predation by vampires under Dracula's aura, so it's not a surprise if his hair color changes at the same rate of Dracula's shape and power.

Lucy's red gown seems to be two different lengths when she walks through the garden maze at night: At first, the gown reaches her feet, but after her skirt is blown up in the wind, it looks like it's knee-length.

However, the skirt continues to sink back down and at the end of the shot you can tell that the dress is still reaching her feet.

In the transfusion scene, Van Helsing spoke of "Landsteiner's method". Although Landsteiner did not publish until 1897, it is quite possible that Van Helsing may be acquainted with both him and his technique.

Lucy seemingly had to open her coffin and crypt to snatch the little girl, but everything is completely sealed, and the men had to pry the crypt open as if it was being unsealed for the first time. However, as stated by Van Helsing earlier in the film, vampires can appear as mist, vapor and fog, making it perfectly possible for Lucy to escape the tomb without having to open anything. This is in keeping with the book, which implies that Lucy can slip between the space of a tiny crack.

Elisabeta's eyebrows and eyelids twitch visibly when Prince Vlad stumbles down to view her dead body.

In the opening scene, when Dracula kneels down next to the body of Elisabeta, you can clearly see Winona Ryder's face twitching.

When Dracula flies into the room during the vampire orgy, you can see the moving platform that is carrying him.

When Lord Arthur Holmwood is sitting at watch beside Lucy's bed, the cable that hoists Holmwood up is visible as Dracula's werewolf-like persona bursts through the glass into the room.

Soon-to-be puncture wounds are visible when Dracula is about to bite Lucy for the first time.

The ticker tape has a misspelled word as "At Once, Do Not Loose an Hour", most likely should be "Do Not Lose an Hour" referring to a call for Van Helsing to visit.

The language spoken in the beginning is not medieval Romanian - it is modern Romanian imitating medieval English syntax.

Fashion in 1897 was very different from what is portrayed in this movie. By 1897, exaggerated bustles had been out of style for some years already. They were more typical in the 1880s.

When we see the ticker tape typing out the message sent to Van Helsing from Dr. Seward, the type appears to be OCR (optical character reader) font which was not created until 1968.

When Dracula bites Mina, her 20th century bikini briefs can be seen beneath her sheer 19th century night gown.

Marie Curie, who is mentioned in a film set in 1897, did not enter science until her first paper was published in July 1898.

When Holmwood has the gun pointed in Van Helsing's face in Lucy's crypt, Van Helsing explains about the undead. Switch to a shot behind Van Helsing and his jaw is still moving even though he has stopped speaking.

When Lucy and Mina are in the maze, running in the rain, you can see crew members standing behind Lucy during one of her laughing close-ups.

When Mina and Lucy are running back to the house after the monster attacks Lucy, you can see the shadow of one or two stage lights on Mina's dress.

When Dracula looks at R.M. Renfield's "Royal Society of Solicitors" card, his name is incorrectly written as "R.N. Reinfeild."