Hellboy: Blood & Iron

I'm a big fan of the Hellboy comic book, and I enjoyed the movie, so when a Hellboy movie showed up on the vampire sort on Netflix, I knew I needed to see it.
Hellboy: Blood & Iron is probably the closest thing to a Hammer Studios cartoon we'll ever see.
It's nicely layered, taking place in the present and in 1939, where an adviser of Hellboy, the Professor, is much younger and hunting a vampire in Eastern Europe. In the present, Hellboy, his team, and the elderly professor are having to face a plan to resurrect the vampire on Long Island.

What impressed me the most were two things: the flashbacks are told in reverse order- the killing of the vampire, then the trek to her castle, the arrival in the village- for some reason this sort of structure worked for me here, and the fact that the vampire is named Erzsebet Ondrushko, a take off on Elizabeth Bathory, as seen in Hammer's Countess Dracula.
It's such a terrific homage that her rejuvenation scene might as well have been in a Hammer movie- she's returned from dust, but still weak and shriveled. In this mode, she's gray and misshapen so it doesn't really matter that she isn't wearing anything. When she regains her youth, she's still unclothed, but she'd bathed in a bathtub of blood, so she's strategically crimson all over. An elegant and plot effective solution to a problem which might have put an R-rating on this cartoon.