Dracula (2026)

As its full name, “Dracula: A Love Tale,” this film emphasizes the love story between Count Dracula, the prince of Romania, and his wife Elisabeta, the princess of Romania.

This is probably one of the most humanised Draculas that has ever been depicted on screen. The film starts with a montage of the couple's passionate domestic scenes inside their bedroom, highlighting their bohemian and eccentric lifestyle and an illusion of a world with just two persons. This illusion was quickly interrupted by a group of soldiers coming inside the bedroom and forcibly putting armors on him.

At the end of the 15th century, Romania was under the rule of the Kingdom of Hungary and indeed conducted successful military operations against the Ottoman Empire, similar to the plot of this film. Elisabeta unfortunately lost her life in the embrace of the prince after a futile escape. The extremely long lace veil she wore when she was riding the horse during the escape became the main character of this part. Dracula lost his faith in God, and after the declaration of the betrayal, he killed the priest, who was dressed like a Catholic pope.

In 19th-century England, a priest, played by Christoph Waltz, and a doctor identified a vampire, who was a ‘young’ socialite woman, played by Matilda De Angelis. The foxy and overexcited Maria, who represents the typical vampire woman in the original Dracula novel, offers the most captivating performance in the film, more than Caleb Landry Jones, Zoë Bleu, or even Christoph Waltz.