The prolific director of 'Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World' and 'Kontinental ‘25' premiered his latest feature in competition at Locarno.

Jude's three-hour joke conflates artificial intelligence with Vlad the Impaler — two undead bloodsuckers that feed on humanity in order to seem alive.

From posthumous footage of a cloaked Bela Lugosi stumbling through graveyards in “Plan 9 From Outer Space” to David Niven appearing in blackface at the end of “Vampira,” Dracula has endured far worse over the years than anything director Radu Jude can do to the character.

Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude returns to the Locarno Film Festival with his new film, Dracula. It’s the latest project to centre itself around the mythology originated from Bram Stoker’s gothic novel.

Radu Jude. Romania/Austria/Luxembourg/Brazil. 2025. 170mins. Radu Jude’s Dracula, a character points out, could have been called Frankenstein, as it is stitched from diverse parts — but it is also so raucously farcical in its spoofing of horror iconography that it could easily have been called Carry On Fanging.

Sebastian Stan is set to star in a new Frankenstein movie from Dracula director Radu Jude which is going to be set in Romania.