It was only a matter of time before AI started making movies. But Radu Jude’s Dracula is probably not what most people envisioned.
The new movie by the arthouse cinema world’s resident provocateur, whose 2021 film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn was banned in several countries and is mostly only available in censored form, Dracula opens with a barrage of AI renderings of Dracula engaging in ludicrous and increasingly pornographic activities. Then a filmmaker (Adonis Tanța) appears onscreen, seated at his desk with an iPad housing the latest in generative AI technology. He’s been tasked by his studio to make a Dracula movie, you see, but he’s at a loss. How do you make a good movie about Dracula that hasn’t been done already? So he decides to do the opposite: make a uniquely terrible Dracula movie made completely by generative AI.
