Dracula

In Radu Jude's chaotic satire, a creatively blocked filmmaker (Adonis Tanța) sits with a tablet, prompting an AI chatbot to generate increasingly wild versions of a commercial vampire film set in Transylvania. The result is fourteen segments ranging from labor disputes and Romanian vampire literature to AI-generated hallucinations and tourist traps — with over twenty actors cycling through more than a hundred roles.
The film is, as the director himself admits, constructed like Frankenstein's monster: genres, time periods, and media are stitched together with no attempt at coherence. AI-generated images are used throughout, but Jude deliberately selects the most grotesque and defective material, letting it serve as the film's comic and critical driving force. References extend from Murnau and Coppola to Paul Morrissey's Blood for Dracula (1974) and Ed Wood. The film is as much an attack on national myth-making and cheap culture industry as it is a vampire film.
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