Dracula

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Dracula

2025

2h 50m

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41 Reviews

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A frustrated filmmaker, facing creative paralysis, turns to an A.I. chatbot in order to make his latest movie a hit. The result is a series of increasingly outrageous vignettes exploring the myth of Dracula in all its forms. From a wild chase through the streets of modern Transylvania to eerie hauntings in the Romanian countryside, cinematic provocateur Radu Jude returns with another boundary-pushing epic featuring a union-busting Dracula breaking a strike, an adaptation of the first Romanian vampire novella, thwarted romance, fields of phalluses, lots of blood, and much more.

Critics Consensus

Radu Jude's Dracula puts its subject and audience to the test in this absurd experiment in creativity that just might suck the life out of everyone for better or for worse.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Apr 7

3/5

One day, I predict, Jude will make a biopic of political vampirism about the most pressing Romanian subject of all: Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. At all events, there are moments of startling insanity here.

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Keith Uhlich

(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)

Feb 6

A Godardian essay film in the vein of Jackass with a Henry James-esque tendency to forever orbit its ephemeral points.

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Peter Debruge

Variety

Nov 26

At 169 minutes, “Dracula” may be a demanding sit, but it’s never dull. And unlike so much so-called content, which is so beholden to formula that it may as well be generated by AI, Jude’s gleefully tacky counterattack proves wildly unpredictable.

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Dionar Hidalgo

Algo Más Que Cine

Feb 7

8/10

Radu Jude’s Dracula is a ferocious, grotesque essay on myth, power, and cultural appropriation, turning the vampire into a symbol of capitalism, nationalism, and digital excess with fearless, exhausting energy.

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John Serba

Decider

Jan 9

Hell of a movie. But to actually recommend it to anyone? That’s a bridge too far, my friends.

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Ryan Swen

Taipei Mansions

Dec 31

Much, much messier than Jude’s other recent work, Dracula nevertheless finds insight in its own madness, mirroring the wild world we live in, whether we like it or not.

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prawnda s

@RT72497680 Jan 3

this website is not a legitimate platform. if it were, "Stephen C" would not have an obviously chatbotted 5 star review on every single movie and tv show on the platform just listing random statistics like the length of the movie with a bunch of exclamation points. they dont even try to hide the cherry picking and review fixing. as for the movie: it seems like this was actually written by a chatbot, it's not ironic.

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Don P

@Jellyco Dec 15

The premise of this film is a fascinating one, but the execution turns out to be an exercise in frustration. Stories and characters that deserve screen time cut away to bewildering vignettes that go nowhere and say nothing, but to mention the ridiculous running time. This would have been a much better film with more focus and better pacing

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MBI M

@MNZGamerX Dec 7

Not a particularly convincing take on the Dracula myth and the last 15 minutes was especially absurd and overdone and possibly quite unintentionally proved the point that love for women is mostly just about wealth and whimsicality and a powerful aphrodisiac. There were some quite enchanting scenes but overall very shallow and some of the acting mediocre.

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Synopsis

A frustrated filmmaker, facing creative paralysis, turns to an A.I. chatbot in order to make his latest movie a hit. The result is a series of increasingly outrageous vignettes exploring the myth of Dracula in all its forms. From a wild chase through the streets of modern Transylvania to eerie hauntings in the Romanian countryside, cinematic provocateur Radu Jude returns with another boundary-pushing epic featuring a union-busting Dracula breaking a strike, an adaptation of the first Romanian vampire novella, thwarted romance, fields of phalluses, lots of blood, and much more.

Director: Radu Jude
Producer: Alexandru Teodorescu, Rodrigo Texeira
Screenwriter: Radu Jude
Distributor: 1-2 Special
Production Co: Saga Film
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: Romanian
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 29, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 2, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA): $26.3K
Runtime: 2h 50m

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