The Romanian auteur also discusses references to Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Charlie Chaplin, OnlyFans, all that sex, and why the film itself, which premieres at Locarno, is Dracula.

The Romanian director combines three hours of sketches, cabaret, comedy, parody, satire, invective, AI morphing imagery for his riff on the dracula myth – the film is so ironically aloof, it’s hard to ...

Modern vampires like Dracula may be dashing, but they certainly weren’t in the original vampire myths. Archive Photos/ Moviepix via Getty Images Stanley Stepanic, University of Virginia The ...

“Our film deconstructs the myth of Dracula through dozens of stories — absurd, pulpy, literary, playful, political, excessive, naughty, fantastic or realistic,” Jude says in a director’s note.