Watch Dario Argento's DRACULA 3D Leaked Trailer

The bootlegged trailer runs 2 minutes 38 seconds and shows us huge chunks of footage from Argento's take on Bram Stoker's gothic villain and has plenty of spoilers!

I'm pretty certain this shouldn't have been leaked online but the Italian film website Badtaste have just emailed me a leaked production trailer for Dario Argento's Dracula 3D and it blatantly spoils the major scenes of the film. The bootlegged trailer runs 2 minutes 38 seconds and shows us huge chunks of footage from the movie, seemingly all the scenes that require visual effects work which are clearly still in the early stages of development. Dracula 3D was shot this summer and is not going to be ready for release until at least next year and I can only imagine this was supposed to be for internal use only at the studio or maybe originates from The American Film Market where it was selling distribution. So to be fair to Argento, we can only really consider this as an unofficial teaser of what is to come as it's clearly not ready to be shown to the public yet. But having said that I can say from watching the footage, this feels like a very modest take on Dracula, certainly one stripped away from the Hollywood grandeur of Francis Ford Coppola's version or other modern adaptations. This feels like a stage play meets Hammer Horror version (though really what did we expect from Argento?) with plenty of oozing blood, nudity and a theatrical feel that seems to miss it's mark. Plus, the moments clearly shot for 3D... I don't think that would be enough to get me into the theatre alone and that's a heavy part of it's promotional campaign. Watch the trailer below and let me know what you think. For me, I love the casting of Rutger Hauer as Van Helsing, that's as perfect a casting as you can get. But Thomas Kretschmann playing Dracula? Not what I see in my head when I read Stoker's novel, at least not the way he is portraying the great Undead... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19d_QKyXn_o&feature=player_embedded
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