Luc Besson's wildly idiosyncratic take on Bram Stoker's immortal novel � which opened in France in 2025 to polarized reviews � arrives in the US as one of the most visually distinctive vampire films in decades, for better and occasionally worse.
Besson's Vision
Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element) has spent his career making films that are always visually arresting and often narratively peculiar. Dracula is no exception. His Count is played by Caleb Landry Jones with a feverish intensity that makes him genuinely alien � not seductive in the conventional Lugosi/Oldman sense, but something older and stranger and deeply wrong. Besson frames Dracula as a being whose emotions are fundamentally inhuman, whose love is indistinguishable from possession, whose tragedy is that he is entirely alone.
"Besson's Dracula is unlike any version you've seen � unsettling rather than seductive, and all the more frightening for it. Jones is extraordinary."
� Le MondeThe Verdict
Divisive but never dull. For viewers tired of the same Dracula, Besson and Landry Jones offer something genuinely different. A flawed, fascinating, visually arresting reimagining.
Luc Besson's wildly idiosyncratic take on Bram Stoker's immortal novel � which opened in France in 2025 to polarized reviews � arrives in the US as one of the most visually distinctive vampire films in decades, for better and occasionally worse.