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Dracula
2025 130 min France R 18+
★6.2
Horror, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Luc Besson
🎭 Based on
«Dracula»
byBram Stoker
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Description
In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.
Budget:
$52M
US Gross:
$13.05M
Worldwide:
$42.4M
Starring
Caleb Landry Jones
Actor
Christoph Waltz
Actor
Zoë Bleu
Actor
Awards
4 nominations total
Key opinion
Luc Besson's Dracula is a polarizing visual experiment that trades traditional horror for a flamboyant, fairy-tale-inspired romantic tragedy. While audiences are divided over its tonal shifts and thin characterizations, the film's unique aesthetic and Caleb Landry Jones's emotive performance leave a lasting, if contentious, impression.
| Production | The film features lavish production design and high-fashion aesthetics that offer a distinct, vivid visual style. | |
| Acting | Caleb Landry Jones provides a compelling, melancholic, and vulnerable performance that anchors the film's romantic aspirations. | |
| Screenplay | The script suffers from tonal inconsistency, frequently clashing between tragic drama, self-aware comedy, and cartoonish horror elements. | |
| Theme | The film's romantic focus divides viewers; some appreciate the exploration of eternal love, while others dismiss the character dynamics as juvenile or devoid of true stakes. | |
| Originality | Opinions on the film's overall nature are split, with some embracing its surreal, fairy-tale logic and others criticizing it as a shallow, disjointed 'fan-fiction' that lacks the gravitas of previous adaptations. |