Dracula(2025)

Name: Dracula
Director: Radu Jude
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Released: Oct 29, 2025
Cast: Adonis Tanta, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Alexandra Harapu, Ana Dumitrascu

1-2 Special

2h 50m

Release Date: Oct 29, 2025 | Limited

A filmmaker in creative paralysis turns to an AI chatbot to help him make a movie about Dracula. What follows is a sprawling collection of vignettes set in modern-day Transylvania: a vampire hunt, Dracula crashing a labor strike with an army of zombies, a sci-fi story about Vlad the Impaler's return, an adaptation of the first Romanian vampire novella, a love story, and AI-generated kitsch interpolated throughout. A satirical anthology film about myth, cinema, power, and what happens when you let an algorithm tell a legend.

Releases

Original Release | Oct 29, 2025

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Box Office Results

Updated as of Apr 26, 2026 05:19 PM ET

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$6,751
Total US & Canada:
$26,498
Total Worldwide:
$26,498

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Director & Top Cast

Radu Jude
Director

Adonis Tanta
The Director

Oana Maria Zaharia
Vampira

Gabriel Spahiu
Dracula impersonator

Alexandra Harapu
Adina Gheorghe

Ana Dumitrascu
Dracula nude customer

Alexandru Dabija

The real Dracula

Claudiu Dumitru

Dracula most ferocious

Serban Pavlu

Dracula priest

Andrada Balea

Actor

Ilinca Manolache

Nun

Nicodim Ungureanu

Actor

Alina Serban

Actor

Carina Lapusneanu

Girl at school

Marian Adochitei

Actor

Horea Avram

Actor

Alexandra Caras

Actor

Doru Catanescu

Actor

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: D-Cinema 48kHz 5.1

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Romania,Austria,Luxembourg,Brazil,United Kingdom,Switzerland

Language: Romanian,English,German,Spanish,French,Hungarian,Latin

Summaries

Plot Summary

Dracula is a 2025 Romanian satirical comedy-drama written and directed by Radu Jude. The film is set in contemporary Transylvania and deconstructs the Dracula legend through dozens of interlocking stories, absurd, political, literary, and fantastical, framed by a narrative in which a filmmaker turns to a generative AI chatbot to help him make his Dracula film. The resulting vignettes include a vampire hunt, Dracula and zombies disrupting a workers' strike, a science-fiction story about Vlad the Impaler, an adaptation of the first Romanian vampire novella, a folktale, and a love story. The cast includes Adonis Tanta, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Ilinca Manolache, Alexandru Dabija, Andrada Balea, and Serban Pavlu. Cinematography is by Marius Panduru. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 78th Locarno Film Festival on August 10, 2025, where it was nominated for the Golden Leopard. It also screened at the Chicago International Film Festival, the São Paulo International Film Festival, and the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Made on a budget of approximately 1.5 million euros and shot over 29 days across locations in Transylvania, including medieval fortresses in Sighisoara and Bucharest, the film is a co-production between Romania, Austria, Luxembourg, and Brazil. The film runs 170 minutes. Core themes include myth, power, capitalism, AI and image-making, Romanian history, and the relationship between cinema and the stories a culture tells about itself. The film is for audiences drawn to formally experimental, politically provocative European art cinema.

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Fun Facts

Dracula (2025) reimagines Bram Stoker's classic as a gothic romance: 15th-century prince Vlad II (Caleb Landry Jones) renounces God after his wife Elisabeth (Zoë Bleu)'s murder by Ottomans, cursing himself to immortality as Dracula.