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If you call back that there could n’t possibly be another style to narrate the timeless story of the Prince of Darkness , guess again . From the creators of the wildly popularSherlockand the rebootedDoctor WhocomesDracula , a mini - series joint speculation between BBC One and Netflix . With its first frenetic trailer , it promises to be both gory and oddly beautiful , walking a fine line of business between delight and bother like creatures of the nighttime always do .
Dracula has had the most adaptations of any literary figure on film and television set , and Bram Stoker ’s famous novel has been translate into 29 languages , bringing the quintessential variation of the innovative vampire to lover of revulsion for over a hundred years . While we wait impatiently for Winter to arrive and the release of this three - episode serial publication , see out everything we roll in the hay about it from the fresh trailer below !
DRACULA WILL BE PLAYED BY CLAES BANG
The Prince of Darkness himself will be play by Claes Bang , a Danish actor best know for 2017’sThe Square , for which he come through the European Film Award for Best Actor ( making him the first Dane to do so ) . In Denmark , he ’s known for his television and stage work , as well as being a player .
Though we do n’t see much of him , his Dracula appears suave and charming with a skin senses of menace to go with his sharp fangs and carmine eyes . He appears to have more in common with the late Christopher Lee ’s interpretation of both an alluring and threatening aristocrat barely obligate his internal beast at bay .
IT LOOKS LIKE A HAMMER HORROR FILM
England has a grand custom of doing horror right , specifically through its extensive filmography through Hammer Film Productions . Started in 1934 , itspecialized in gothic repugnance filmsfrom the ' 50s until the ' 70s , star such know British thespians as Sir Christopher Lee(Star Wars , Lord of the Rings)Peter Cushing(Star Wars),Vincent Price , and many others .
mallet films were known for their dour cinematography , creepy ambiance , and often their princely period costumes . BBC’sDraculalooks to be much the same , with an threatening creepy-crawly castle full of dark corridor , long shadow , and gutter candelabra .
IT’S STICKING TO CANON
It ’s ironic that Lord of BBC’sSherlockhave been tasked with create BBC’sDracula , since Sherlock Holmes holds the record for being the most frequently portrayedhumanliterary character , having seem in television and film 254 times . Themostfrequently impersonate literary character of all metre however , goes to aninhumanbeing;Dracula has , in fact , come along the most on - silver screen , a astonishing 272 sentence .
Having been featured in so many adaption , it ’s toilsome to ideate differentiate the story of Dracula in a novel way . This serial looks to go back to basics being place in 1897 , the year Bram Stoker wrote his novel featuring the famous lamia . It begins with the Count in his castle in Transylvania before he collude to go toLondonto line up a new feeding land .
IT’S GOING TO GIVE YOU NIGHTMARES
Steven Moffat ofSherlockfame , who co - created the series with his fellowSherlockwriting mate Mark Gatiss , was adamantine thatthe series should give horror devotee nightmaresand the laggard fend for this . We see visceral images of dirty fingernails being peeled off at the root , as well as blooming hands clawing their mode along drab hallways .
We also get dig of what looks like a corpse jerking its style out of a box , contorting itself into insensate shape as it lurches towards the camera . And finally , we see the Count himself take hold of the pharynx of a victim with his dirty nails as he flashes his Fang for a bite .
IT HAS SOME DARK HUMOR
While good revulsion give you thrills and chills , great revulsion can also provide minuscule morsels of funniness amid the agonizing darkness . A well - timed zinger can momently keep the impending day of reckoning at bay , if only for a moment . It also serves to lull viewers ( and dupe ! ) into a assumed sentiency of security system .
Steven Moffat wanted to admit a few laughs specifically so that you would n’t ascertain the series and feel"like the world is a scurvy , woeful place " . Dracula whiz some gallows humour to an unidentified dupe in the dawdler , which also serves to make the Prince of Darkness more wizard .
AND PLENTY OF ACTION
Part and parcel to a proper Dracula story is the tempo . As every Dracula adaption know , you ca n’t stick to living room room drama only - the quality need to feel more fear . To execute this , the stress must be heightenedby whatever is lurking in the vestige , fulfilled by a few dramatic chase scenes .
In the preview , we see several spurts of activity , from Jonathan Harker running through the Hall of Dracula ’s Castle , to a shootout aboard a sailing ship . We also see what looks like a few unlike zombies , and tongue - wield nun . Suffice it to say , there ’s more than enough to get our heart racing and our blood ram .
CRUCIFIXES, POSSESSION, SATANIC NURSES, OH MY!
Typically vampires and other creatures of the Hades have always been warded off by religious iconography . but this trailer is full of rood , rosaries , and women who look like they ’re wearing nun riding habit . Perhaps the Count has been able to bypassthe affliction of holy relics .
The trailer does n’t indicate if the stake - brandishing nuns are preparing to fight against Dracula , or they have been sully by the Dark Prince to do his muddy workplace . Some look as though they may be ward the secret to his crypt , while others seem as though they may be preparing to unwrap it .
PLASTIC FANGS NEED NOT APPLY
With progression in technology , gone are the days when Dracula was bring to lifespan with a crummy set of fictile fangsand a cape . The recent adaptations of Dracula , such as NBC ’s fantastic but myopic - livedDraculaseries with Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the title role , and Universal ’s Dark Universe bloodline filmDracula Untoldwith Luke Evans could properly research the supernatural with stunning visuals .
BBC’sDraculalooks to have the same arresting visuals and gorgeous aesthetics , without a cheap driblet of red corn sirup in muckle . It seem as bright as any season ofAmerican Horror Story , even though it will deplorably not be as long as the democratic anthology series .
BEAUTIFUL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Throughout the admittedly forgetful trailer , we ’re process to several gorgeous dig of interiors and outside of Dracula ’s Castle , nestled deep within the Carpathian Mountains . We see their snow - pass over elevation against a moonlit sky , with the sounds of shrieking bats provide a haunting atmosphere .
We also get shots of a dramatic sea ocean trip , as a heroic ship sets sale with a dangerous cargo on base . We see several coffins and one that carries a re - quicken corpse . It ’s ill-defined whether the cargo is being direct to Transylvania or on its way of life to London , England . From just the few glimpses that we get , it ’s clean the cinematography will raise the chilling tone of the serial greatly .
KEY FIGURES ARE MISSING
There are several primal figures from Bram Stoker ’s literary masterpiece that are missing from the first trailer . First , there is no visual aspect by the Three Sisters , the beautiful female vampires that score solicitor Jonathan Harker while he ’s wandering around Dracula ’s castle .
Next , there ’s no sign of Dracula ’s arch - nemesis , Abraham Van Helsing . We get one shot of an aged gentleman with a beard , but he hardly seems like the stake - exert vampire hunter of myth and legend . There is another young man firing a six-gun aboard a ship , but it ’s unclear who is in relation to the Count .
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