The tyranist's thoughts
This much lauded twin to Bela Lugosi's 1931 Dracula doesn't hold the secrets to why Dracula wasn't as good as it should have been and it isn't so different that it can be judged separately. While many proclaim it to be the superior version, I found it, instead, to be merely an alternate which contains a couple more plot details, but was not ultimately more satisfying.
In the couple spots that it gave us more information (the three sisters and the lady in white) it managed to divest itself of the Unresolved Subplots skull that its twin earned, but even those were brief and really not fulfilling. The additional time spent with the sisters still does not explain them fully, but it does resolve some of why Renfield has gone insane. The lady in white sequence is really much better and dealt with quite finally here.
Aside from that it suffered from the same slowly paced script and its own share of bad acting. Eva (Mina in the English version) wasn't quite as good here although she did wear much more revealing attire and that helped distract me from some of her awfulness. I would actually say that the two Draculas are identical with only Bela's creepy accent giving him the final upper hand.
For completeness, you should probably see this alongside the other one, but know that it is a complement and not a separate film. To me, at least, it felt a little like watching deleted scenes.