A.I. is vampiric in Dracula—and so too is our modern culture of depraved sex, violence, and exploitation, all of which prove juicy targets into which writer/director Radu Jude sinks his satiric teeth.
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: ...
Radu Jude is the internet’s favorite filmmaker. Or at least its most controversial. Despite their regional particularities—unfolding across what he calls “the margins of Europe”—Jude’s films reflect ...
NECA is getting into the Halloween spirit as it unveils the reissue of a popular Friday the 13th figure. Jason Voorees is back as his classic vice appearance returns to collectors' hands with the ...
We leave Bucharest on a gloomy October morning, heading north. It seems fitting, given our journey. I might be on a two-day Transylvanian tour but in my head I’m following Jonathan Harker’s fateful ...
Born in Dublin on November 8, 1847, Abraham Stoker, or ‘Bram’ as he’s popularly known, was an Irish writer who is remembered today for his magnum opus, the malevolent Dracula, which he completed in ...
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.
4 Extra Debut. Bram Stoker's original vampire horror tale of Count Dracula's reign of terror in Victorian Britain. Stars Nicky Henson. Show more Dark re-imagining of ...
Wallachia in the 15th century was an unstable region with many pretenders to the throne, local feuds and external threats from the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire and the mighty Hungarian Kingdom. Among ...
Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula travels to Victorian London, where he becomes obsessed with Mina Murray—the fiancée of his solicitor, Jonathan Harker—believing her to be the reincarnation of his ...