In modern-day Transylvania, vampire hunts and labor strikes collide with sci-fi twists, romance, and AI-crafted tales, as multiple storylines blend folklore, classic horror, and contemporary elements into a fresh take on Dracula's legend.
A Dracula film made in Transylvania. What does it contain? A vampire hunt. Zombies and Dracula crashing a strike. A science-fiction story about Vlad the Impaler coming back. An adaptation of the first Romanian vampires novella. A love story. A montage film reusing a classic vampire film. A vulgar folktale. A.I. generated kitsch stories. And many delights in a film dealing with this cinema myth. — Radu Jude
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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.
Centuries later in 1889 Paris, he discovers Mina (Matilda De Angelis)—Elisabeth's reincarnation—as fiancée to solicitor Jonathan Harker; Dracula imprisons Harker, feeds on nuns for power, and woos Mina with a luring perfume and music box amid the French Revolution centenary, aided by vampiric Maria.
Luc Besson writes and directs the 129-minute English-language fantasy with Christoph Waltz (priest Van Helsing), Anamaria Vartolomei, and Alexej Manvelov.