Argento's Dracula 3D

Name: Argento's Dracula 3D
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Romance
Released: October 4, 2013
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 25

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IFC Midnight | Release Date: October 4, 2013 | Not Rated

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 andAt 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 Tania (Miriam Giovanelli), Count Dracula manages to lure Jonathan and Mina to his castle by promising the young Harker a job as a librarian. Only the arrival of vampire expert Abraham Van Helsing (Rutger Hauer) can help restore the small village of Passo Borgo to normalcy. [IFC Midnight]… Expand

Director: Dario Argento

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 106 min

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Mark Olsen

Oct 3, 2013

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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Oct 4, 2013

At least a bit of an improvement over the embarrassment of "Giallo", but no matter how promising the idea of him tackling Bram Stoker's classic might sound in theory, the result cannot be regarded as anything but a disappointment. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Sep 30, 2013

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. Read full review

Rob Nelson

Sep 30, 2013

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. Read full review

Nick Schager

Oct 2, 2013

No amount of intentional stabs at humor can offset the hilarious awfulness of Dario Argento’s Dracula. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Oct 3, 2013

When insects are the best thing in your movie, it’s probably time to retire. Read full review

David Rooney

Sep 30, 2013

Utterly lacking in imagination or suspense, this inane effort is strictly for hardcore Argento cultists. Read full review

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A_So_Horror_Fan

May 23, 2015

“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“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?!… Expand

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El_Flaco

Nov 12, 2022

I cannot believe this is the same director of Suspiria and deep red, what happened to Argento?

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JeBjBo

Oct 30, 2022

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 FilmWow... 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.… Expand

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Drastre

Apr 29, 2014

I once said that House at the End of the Street was the worst film of the century. I changed my mind. This movie SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This isn't just the worst film of the entire century. It's one of the worst films EVER!!

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