The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, based on a novel, is the highest-grossing Swedish film of all time.
Dracula Untold
One imagines the first time Dracula used his "I vant to suck your blood" approach on a lady, he received a slap in the fangs for his trouble. But he kept on. Now more movies than you can count feature Bram Stoker's neck-sucking scamp as its star character, and don't get us started on the vampiric subgenre of the last few years. Where did this blood line begin is the question answered with Dracula Untold, a dark-fantasy film that features the Welshman Luke Evans as Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century prince who inspired Stoker, 400 years later, to write his seminal novel Dracula.
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Not since The 40-Year-Old Virgin has a movie title so adequately summed up its premise. Based on the novel of the same name, the whimsical 2013 comedy about a bomb-happy centenarian antihero is the highest-grossing Swedish film of all time, ahead of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, which are also based on novels with self-explanatory titles. A sequel is apparently in the works; we suggest The Girl Who Saw the Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared as the title. Even the sometimes-dour Scandinavians will get the joke.
Correction
In an earlier version of this article, the films One Chance and Addicted were incorrectly included in this roundup of movies opening Oct. 10.
Brad Wheeler