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- 2013
- Not Rated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 50 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 50 m
Summary At the home of Lucy (Asia Argento), a photograph on display of Mina and Jonathan Harker (Marta Gastini and Unax Ugalde), sets off the furious yearning of Count Dracula (Thomas Kretschmann) who sees Mina as the reincarnation of his beloved Dolingen De Gratz, who died over 400 years ago. With the help of his beautiful followers, Lucy and T...
Directed By: Dario Argento
- 2013
- Not Rated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 50 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- IFC Midnight
- 1 h 50 m
Argento's Dracula 3D
25
4.4
Where to Watch
Summary At the home of Lucy (Asia Argento), a photograph on display of Mina and Jonathan Harker (Marta Gastini and Unax Ugalde), sets off the furious yearning of Count Dracula (Thomas Kretschmann) who sees Mina as the reincarnation of his beloved Dolingen De Gratz, who died over 400 years ago. With the help of his beautiful followers, Lucy and T...
Directed By: Dario Argento
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
25
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
82% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
25
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
82% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
The effects may be cheap and unconvincing, the sets spare, the costumes from some unwanted back rack, but Argento still brings enough moments of kinky madness to his not-great "Dracula" to indicate there may yet be greatness lurking within him.
The film is dispiriting because there's virtually no sign of Dario Argento in it, nor of any novel motivation to mount yet another version of an oft-told tale.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 User Ratings
4.4
31% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
13% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
56% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 User Ratings
4.4
31% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
13% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
56% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
“Dracula 3D” offers a blended story that seems part classic Dracula lore mixed with Hammer’s own mythos for the Prince of Darkness. There is an obvious lackadaisical approach to Dracula story that begins almost in the middle, forcing the viewer to stay focused on this particular retelling of Bram’s story. There isn’t much that is recognizable and I found myself having to remind myself that I was watching “Dracula” because there is almost nothing other than the names that resembles the classic tale and the film shows more of a Hammer Film’s influence than Bram Stoker. It is a bit cumbersome in creating an instant connection with the characters, but I found myself very captivated by this story that it almost made for an original piece. The characters fall short of actualizing into multifaceted personas but I have always found that to be the case with Argento’s characters. The emotion and interactions to the situations his characters often face have always seemed sterile and robotic. It does very little to disconnect me completely from “Dracula 3D”, much as the characters in his previous material have not keep me from getting into the films. To me this is one component that makes Dario Argento’s style so Dario Argento. Either you like his film and style or you don’t.
The 3D gimmick in “Dracula 3D” has no baring in my review of this film. The special effects though is another matter. It was far too cheap to overlook. The sound effects and musical score for the film seems pretty cool, offering an expected creepy, haunting feeling that you would expect in a Dracula or films like this. For me, “Dracuala 3D” is standard Argento level story telling, take that as good or bad. This film is plenty bad, but at a cult / bad movie level with plenty material that will make the film good, at least for those of us who have no "decades built delusion" that Dario Argento’s work has been anything but bad. His films are tacky, fun, cinema-wasteland viewing. “Dracula 3D” is a film that, if you are only looking for some tongue-in-cheek, WTF film fun, you may enjoy- I did. However if you only have room for serious horror films that take the Dracula material straight forward then definitely skip this film, because it is more laughable than entertaining by that measure-but then why would you really be watching a Dario Argento film anyway?!
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Very scattered and disjointed, unclear to even what any of the plot was reflecting. Rutger Hauer is giving a phoned in performance for the ages.
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It isn’t just sub-par for Argento, it’s sub-par for virtually any director. It’s a stain on Dracula’s good name, and a waste of time for even those looking for the cheapest of vampiric thrills.
Director Argento half-heartedly mixes schlocky 3D f/x with one-dimensional characters for a near-two-hour joke that ought to have been funnier.
When insects are the best thing in your movie, it’s probably time to retire.
Where, exactly, is Dario Argento? He’s up there in the title, but none of the horror maestro’s former genius (Suspiria) is evident in this silly, Stoker-by-numbers slog, rife with cheesy digital blood spurts but not a single moment of deep-red gorgeousness.
Utterly lacking in imagination or suspense, this inane effort is strictly for hardcore Argento cultists.
Wow... wie scheiße kann ein Film sein? Von den grauenhaften visuellen Effekten über die Beleuchtung und Kameraführung auf "Terra X"-Niveau (könnte auch aus einer Folge "Die Deutschen" entnommen sein) sowie das schlechte Schauspiel und das spannungsfreie Drehbuch. Kurz: Alles an diesem Film ist mindestens unterdurchschnittlich, einige Aspekte erreichen Uwe Boll-Niveau. Einziger Lichtblick sind der Song im Abspann, Rutger Hauer als Van Helsing und Thomas Kretschmann als Dracula, der sichtlich Spaß an dieser Pornoparodie ohne Porno hatte. Selbst als Trash-Unterhaltung für einen Bier-Abend mit Freunden ist dieses Machwerk nicht zu empfehlen, da man vom sich immer wieder wiederholenden Score irgendwann eingeschläfert wird. Und das schlimmste: Regisseur dieses "Films" ist Dario Argento, Erschaffer einiger meiner liebsten Filme.
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Production Company
Multimedia Film Production,
Les Films de l'Astre,
Enrique Cerezo Producciones Cinematográficas S.A.,
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC)
Release Date Oct 4, 2013
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline The Legend Rises
Awards
David di Donatello Awards
• 1 Nomination
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
