Dracula (2025)
Dracula is a 2025 French-language horror movie directed by Luc Besson and Danny Elfman, with a running time of 2h 10m. It stars Caleb Landry Jones, Zoë Bleu Sidel and Christoph Waltz.
Luc Besson recasts Bram Stoker's legend as a centuries-spanning love story. In the late 15th century, a warlord loses his bride and curses Heaven itself, and the grief hardens into something deathless. Caleb Landry Jones plays the immortal Dracula, with Christoph Waltz opposite him and Zoe Bleu as the woman his longing keeps circling back to. Besson leans into spectacle and mourning over scares, staging the vampire as a man wrecked by love rather than a simple monster. It is lush, sorrowful, and unafraid of excess.
Quick answers
What is Dracula about?
Luc Besson recasts Bram Stoker's legend as a centuries-spanning love story. In the late 15th century, a warlord loses his bride and curses Heaven itself, and the grief hardens into something deathless. Caleb Landry Jones plays the immortal Dracula, with Christoph Waltz opposite him and Zoe Bleu as the woman his longing keeps circling back to. Besson leans into spectacle and mourning over scares, staging the vampire as a man wrecked by love rather than a simple monster. It is lush, sorrowful, and unafraid of excess.
When was Dracula released?
Dracula was released on 30 July 2025.
How long is Dracula?
Dracula runs 2h 10m.
Who made Dracula?
Dracula was directed by Luc Besson and Danny Elfman.
Where can I watch Dracula?
Dracula is available on Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Dracula
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: Fandango at Home
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Cast
- Caleb Landry Jones as Vlad / Dracula
- Zoë Bleu Sidel as Elisabeta / Mina
- Christoph Waltz as Priest
- Matilda De Angelis as Maria
- Ewens Abid as Jonathan Harker
- Guillaume de Tonquédec as Dumont
- David Shields as Henry Spencer
- Bertrand-Xavier Corbi as Captain Targol
- Raphael Luce as Clerk Simon
- Liviu Bora as Army Captain (19th)
- Anne Kessler as Old Lady
- Romain Levi as Captain Wernus
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A few thoughts on Dracula
The film's ache of undying love pairs with The Vampire Diaries, another story of vampires bound to people they cannot stop loving. For a darker, more operatic version of the same doom, AMC's Interview with the Vampire treats immortality as grief, and the Castlevania games turn the Dracula myth into gothic spectacle.
Other tellings of the Dracula legend, from Stoker's novel onward
Besson's Dracula recasts Stoker's 1897 novel as a centuries-long romance rather than a straightforward monster hunt. Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula pursued that same doomed-love reading decades earlier, Dracula Untold gives the count his own tragic origin story, Nosferatu returns to the silent-era shadow-creature roots, and The Last Voyage of the Demeter fills in the ship crossing the novel only sketches.
Vampires driven by grief and longing more than bloodlust
Besson stages Dracula as a man wrecked by centuries of mourning rather than a simple predator. The Vampire Diaries and Interview with the Vampire build entire seasons around vampires aching for what they lost, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Spring turn that same longing into slow-burn romance, and Innocent Blood and Queen of the Damned keep the tragedy sitting alongside the horror.
Vampire hunters and gothic monsters across games and comics
Dracula's centuries-old curse and cathedral-scale dread carry the same weight into Castlevania's gothic vampire-hunting saga and Bloodborne's blood-soaked, cursed city. Dylan Dog investigates that same shadowy monster world in comic form, while Tokyo Ghoul and Descendants of Darkness give a blood-drinking predator and a reaper-adjacent figure their own manga treatments.