10 Terrible Horror Movies (You Couldn't Stop Thinking About)
6. Dracula 3D
Though it's fair to say that giallo legend Dario Argento entered a career decline in the 1990s from which he never recovered, it wasn't until 2012 that he plumbed an irredeemable depth with the stunningly inept Dracula 3D.
Given Argento's rep as one of the most stylish and innovative horror filmmakers of all time, Dracula 3D felt like a fascinating inversion of this, with its flabbergastingly low production values, defined by cheap sets and costumes, crappy makeup, horrible lighting, garish digital cinematography, and laughable visual effects.
Save for a heroic performance from Rutger Hauer as Van Helsing, this is a pancake-flat misfire, and yet a film that's so fundamentally misguided in its DNA that it also deserves to be written about academically.
For Argento to produce something so wrong-headed, so cheap-looking, so basically devoid of style, makes it a film that's impossible to forget, even if it's also ultimately a sad footnote to one hell of a filmmaking career.