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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Radu Jude

Producer:

Rodrigo Teixeira, Alexandru Teodorescu

Writer:

Radu Jude

Release Date:

Oct 31, 2025

Runtime:

2hr 50m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Adonis Tanta
  • Oana Maria Zaharia
  • Gabriel Spahiu
  • Alexandra Harapu
  • Ana Dumitrascu
  • Alexandru Dabija
  • Claudiu Dumitru
  • Serban Pavlu
  • Andrada Balea
  • Ilinca Manolache
Moviegoers are saying
Radu Jude's provocative AI-infused Dracula experiment divides audiences with its intentionally revolting, critic-proof design that uses generative AI to dissect both vampire mythology and cinema itself. This delirious overload of nested stories and batty images creates a maddening yet brilliant satire that's equal parts smart, pornographic, embarrassing, and unexpectedly moving.
Top Mentions
Critic-Proof
AI-Horror
Meta-Madness
Intentionally-Revolting
Genre-Hijacking
Endurance-Test
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Letterboxd User Reviews

3.1
8.5K
4.4K
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RATINGS 20 FANS
3.1
  • Oct 29, 2025

    Radu Jude's King Lear (Godard, 1987), except instead of being set in some future dystopia, the dystopia is right now. Really hard to sit through, and knowing that that's the point doesn't make it easier.

    317 Likes
    Will Sloan
    Will Sloan
    Nov 26, 2025

    Radu Jude, keep going.

    255 Likes
    Sean Fennessey
    Sean Fennessey
    Oct 29, 2025

    Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the Romanian dream?

    233 Likes
    Adam Nayman
    Adam Nayman
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    Oct 24, 2025

    Such a conceptually sound provocation that it feels mostly useless. Its tastelessness is so clever to lose most of its value, and the ugly imagery and overall too muchness don't get better because of the quotation marks. A few jokes are funny, and you have to admire how…

    207 Likes
    Filipe Furtado
    Filipe Furtado
    Jan 3, 2026

    hell is on earth and DraculAI is now

    165 Likes
    allain♡
    allain♡
    Oct 28, 2025

    “Sometimes you find that these small videos contain more cinematic quality or anthropological documentary quality, or more artistic innovation than the whole cinema industry sometimes. For the New York Film Festival, with Andrei Rus, who’s a film scholar from Romania, we…

    122 Likes
    Brandon Streussnig
    Brandon Streussnig
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    Aug 9, 2025

    Nice troll job. As always, the rule applies: if you let yourself get trolled by the troll, it's you who is the fool. Something that can probably be used as an excuse for most of the decisions made here. Ultimately, it's mainly a question of whether you can justify using…

    114 Likes
    Luca Bruno
    Luca Bruno
    Sep 30, 2025

    nothing wrong with being a garbage man in a world of trash

    106 Likes
    sam
    sam
    Oct 30, 2025

    Jude’s satirical use of AI points to the fundamental paradox, or problem, driving through the heart of his Dracula. It is frustratingly critic-proof. Say that the AI effects look horrible and amateurish, and you’ll realize they’re meant to be. The film is built to be…

    105 Likes
    john semley
    john semley
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Metacritic

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40
Oct 30, 2025

Jude is an interesting, admirably unorthodox filmmaker who likes to push his viewers. Here, he simply punishes us.

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Metacritic review by Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
The New York Times
88
Oct 28, 2025

A raucous mélange of the demented and the degrading, indulging in the very garish, grotesque, X-rated madness it condemns.

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Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
83
Aug 20, 2025

Radu Jude’s gleefully stupid Dracula proves much too expansive — and much too invested in the centuries of barbarism that paved the way toward Silicon Valley — to be misunderstood as a simple rebuke against the grotesqueries of algorithmic image-making.

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David Ehrlich
IndieWire
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Frequently Asked Questions

How long is Dracula (2025) (2025)?
The movie is 2hr 50min long.
What's Dracula (2025) (2025) about?
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.
Who's the cast of Dracula (2025) (2025)?
  • Adonis Tanta as The Director
  • Oana Maria Zaharia as Vampira
  • Gabriel Spahiu as Dracula impersonator
  • Alexandra Harapu as Adina Gheorghe
  • Ana Dumitrascu as Dracula nude customer
  • Alexandru Dabija as The real Dracula
  • Claudiu Dumitru as Dracula most ferocious
  • Serban Pavlu as Dracula priest
  • Andrada Balea
  • Ilinca Manolache as Nun
Who's the director behind Dracula (2025) (2025)?
Radu Jude directed Dracula (2025) (2025).
Who produced Dracula (2025) (2025)?
Rodrigo Teixeira and Alexandru Teodorescu produced Dracula (2025) (2025).