Dracula – All Things Ick

Young Bela Lugosi Biopic Penned by ‘Ed Wood’ Scribes in Development for Universal

October 14, 2025 Meagan Navarro Bela Lugosi, Dracula, Larry Karaszewski, Movies, Scott Alexander

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions is developing a Universal Pictures biopic of Dracula originator Bela Lugosi, per Deadline. The script hails from Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the writers behind Tim Burton’s Ed Wood and Rudy Ray Moore biographical comedy Dolemite is My Name. The biopic is said to follow “a younger Lugosi, capturing his meteoric rise to […]

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Audio Drama ‘Re: Frankenstein’ Now Funding Through Indiegogo; Help Bring This Monster to Life!

October 8, 2025 Pacific Obadiah Dracula, Frankenstein, IndieGoGo, Podcasts, Re Dracula, Re: Frankenstein

Re: Frankenstein is an audio drama adaptation of Frankenstein from the team behind Re: Dracula and Re: Carmilla, which is crowdfunding now! Featuring an award-winning all-trans cast, Re: Frankenstein will bring this Gothic masterpiece to glorious un-life. This horror audio drama will be a faithful, text-accurate adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, featuring a full cast […]

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First Look at ‘Dracula: Book III – The Count’ Graphic Novel from Matt Wagner & Kelley Jones [Exclusive]

September 22, 2025 Alex DiVincenzo Comics, Dracula, exclusive, Exclusives

Writer Matt Wagner (Grendel, Mage) and artist Kelley Jones (Batman: Red Rain, The Sandman) are sinking their fangs into a new chapter in their Dracula graphic novel series based on Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel. Dracula: Book III – The Count will launch on Kickstater in the coming weeks, and we have an exclusive look […]

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‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Radio Play’ Takes to the Stage in Southampton, NY This October

September 22, 2025 John Squires Bram Stoker, Dracula, Long Island Horror, The Further

Bram Stoker’s horror classic Dracula comes back to life in a fresh new way in Southampton, New York this Halloween season, with the Southampton Arts Center announcing Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Radio Play, taking to the stage beginning October 17, 2025. From October 17 – October 26, the limited engagement Dracula: A Radio Play terrifies […]

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Super7 x Boodega 2024’s Halloween Kids ReAction Figures Celebrate Universal Monsters [Exclusive]

September 17, 2024 Meagan Navarro Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Exclusives, Frankenstein, Super7, Toys, universal monsters

Super7 x Boodega 2024 unleashed horror hosts Svengoolie and Vincent Price in ReAction Figure form earlier this year. Now, just in time for Halloween, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively reveal that Super7 x Boodega 2024 are unleashing a line of Halloween Kids ReAction Figures inspired by Universal Monsters! Go trick-or-treating this Halloween season with the Bride of […]

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A Diva Dracula in Paul Morrissey’s ‘Blood for Dracula’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

August 19, 2024 Trace Thurman Andy Warhol, Blood For Dracula, Dracula, Horror Queers, Horror Queers Podcast, Joe Dallesandro, Paul Morrissey, Podcasts, Udo Kier

Wirgin Worries. After kicking off August with discussions of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surrealist masterpiece Santa Sangre (listen) and the screenlife sequel Unfriended: Dark Web (listen), we’re returning to the world of Andy Warhol with a look at Paul Morrissey‘s Udo Kier-starring vehicle Blood for Dracula (1974). In the film, the deathly ill Count Dracula (Udo Kier) and his slimy underling Anton […]

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Caleb Landry Jones Playing Dracula in Upcoming Origin Story Movie from Luc Besson

February 17, 2024 John Squires Caleb Landry Jones, Dracula, Luc Besson, Movies

Countless different types of Count Dracula stories have been told on the screen over the years, from Bela Lugosi’s black & white icon to Nicolas Cage’s scenery chewing take in Renfield. The origin story of the Dracula character has also been told, most notably in Gary Shore’s 2014 movie Dracula Untold. And THR reports this […]

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‘Universal Monsters: Dracula’ – Exclusive First Look at Issue #1 of New Comic Series from Skybound Entertainment

August 31, 2023 John Squires Comics, Dracula, Exclusives, universal monsters, Universal Monsters: Dracula

Skybound Entertainment is bringing Dracula back to life for a brand new four-issue comic book limited series from the best-selling, Eisner Award nominated team of James Tynion IV (W0rldtr33, Something is Killing the Children) and Martin Simmonds (Swan Songs). In partnership with Universal Products & Experiences, the first issue of Universal Monsters: Dracula will be available in comic book shops on Wednesday, October 25, […]

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Universal Monsters Movie ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Now Available at Home

August 29, 2023 John Squires Dracula, Movies, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, universal monsters

In the wake of failing to recoup its budget with just $15 million worldwide at the box office, Universal’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter has now been surprise-released at home. On Digital, you can rent the film for $19.99 or purchase it for $24.99. Directed by André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to […]

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How ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Resurrects a Pivotal Chapter in Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’

August 22, 2023 Jenn Adams Andre Ovredal, Books, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Editorials, Movies, The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The following contains major spoilers for The Last Voyage of the Demeter. If the horror genre has a grandfather, it’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. First published in 1897, the epistolary novel follows a group of English socialites who cross paths with a centuries-old vampire traversing the continent in search of fresh victims. From Francis Ford Coppola […]

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‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Review – André Øvredal Goes for the Jugular in Epic Horror Adventure

August 10, 2023 Meagan Navarro Andre Ovredal, Dracula, featured, Movies, Reviews, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, topnews

The Last Voyage of the Demeter sat in development purgatory for roughly two decades, cycling through various filmmakers and actors to breathe life into Bragi Schut Jr.’s original script, an adaptation of “The Captain’s Log” chapter from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. The eerie chapter comes early in the novel, set over high seas, and chronicles […]

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Here’s a Nice Clear Look at Javier Botet’s Dracula in ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’

July 14, 2023 John Squires Dracula, Javier Botet, Movies, The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Known to horror fans for playing terrifying roles in films including [REC], The Conjuring 2, and IT: Chapter 2, Javier Botet is back on the big screen this summer in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and this time around he’s sinking his teeth into none other than Dracula. It’s no secret at this point […]

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‘Fear the Invisible Man’ and the Importance of Public Domain Monsters

June 16, 2023 Luiz H. C. Dracula, Editorials, Fear the Invisible Man, invisible man, Longform, Movies, Night of the Living Dead, Nosferatu, Public Domain

Some movie monsters have become so ubiquitous in popular culture that they feel more like omnipresent myths than characters from specific stories. Ask any young child and they’ll probably recognize Frankenstein and Dracula without ever having touched a Stoker or Shelley novel, with these characters inhabiting our collective imagination through what can only be described […]

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‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Rated “R” for Bloody Dracula Violence

April 19, 2023 John Squires Andre Ovredal, Dracula, Movies, The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Dracula is back on the big screen in Universal’s horror-comedy Renfield, and we won’t have to wait long to see Dracula’s next bloody adventure. Universal’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter is bringing Dracula back to theaters yet again on August 11, 2023, and today the film’s official MPA rating has been revealed. Like Renfield, this […]

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‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Director André Øvredal Previews His ‘Alien’ at Sea Horror Movie [Interview]

April 13, 2023 Meagan Navarro Andre Ovredal, Dracula, Interviews, Javier Botet, Movies, The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The trailer for the long-awaited The Last Voyage of the Demeter is here, giving a glimpse of the horror based on “The Captain’s Log” chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Steering the ship is director André Øvredal, who broke out with the adventurous Troll Hunter before creeping audiences out with The Autopsy of Jane Doe and then Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The […]

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