There is, as anyone who has attended a film festival or repertory cinema screening of a classic foreign film can attest, a kind of laughter that pervades such dark spaces. It is a knowing laughter: ...
Night falls, and the wolves howl. An enchanting scent wafts through the streets of Paris. Dracula is here, and no one is safe… unfortunately, neither is the audience. The adaptation of Bram Stoker’s ...
It’s fitting that the first good movie to meaningfully incorporate AI into its aesthetic should be about an undead bloodsucker that feeds on humanity in order to seem alive. And yet, for a three-hour ...
We first meet Dracula not as a vampire, but as the notorious Vlad III (also known as Vlad the Impaler) Prince of Wallachia. The story begins with his love for his wife, Elisabeta, and the crusades ...
The celebrated Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude produces a clutch of truly disturbing sights in his latest film, Dracula, where mangled bodies and blood-gorged ghouls leer at the audience from the screen.
Few fictional monsters can claim to have the cultural footprint of Count Dracula. Ever since Bram Stoker created the character with a pen and ink and Bela Lugosi brought the infamous villain to life ...