Official US Trailer for ‘Radu Jude’s Dracula’ Film Out Later This Month
by Alex Billington
October 8, 2025
Source: YouTube
“Suck it, Dracula!” 1-2 Special has revealed the full official US trailer for a film called Dracula, yet another new Dracula movie this year – along with Luc Besson’s Dracula. This one is actually called Radu Jude’s Dracula, the official title because it’s directed by Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude. Looks totally bonkers! He’s the original intro from the Locarno Film Festival: “A Dracula film made in Transylvania. What does it contain? A vampire hunt. Zombies & Dracula crashing a strike. A sci-fi story about Vlad the Impaler coming back. An adaptation of the first Romanian vampire novella. A love story. A montage film reusing a classic vampire film. A vulgar folktale. AI-generated kitsch stories. And many delights in a film dealing with this cinema myth.” The film is a riff on Artificial intelligence including scenes created with AI because it’s acting as commentary on how stupid AI is, not indulging in it. This stars Adonis Tanța, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Ilinca Manolache, Alexandru Dabija, Andrada Balea, Doru Talos, Lukas Miko, Serban Pavlu, and Alexandra Harapu. This looks like a crazy fun new creation from Radu Jude’s mind.
Here’s the official US trailer (+ poster) for Radu Jude’s Dracula, direct from 1-2’s YouTube:
A frustrated filmmaker, facing creative paralysis, turns to an AI 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 strke, an adaptation of the first Romania vampire novella, thwarted romance, fields of phalluses, lots of blood, and much more. Radu Jude’s Dracula is written and directed by acclaimed Romanian indie filmmaker Radu Jude, director of many indie films including The Happiest Girl in the World, A Film for Friends, Everybody in Our Family, Aferim!, Scarred Hearts, I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World previously, plus tons of other shorts & unique docs. Produced by Rodrigo Teixeira & Alexandru Teodorescu. This first premiered at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival a few months ago. 1-2 Special will release Radu Jude’s Dracula in select US theaters starting October 29th, 2025 this fall. Who’s down?
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