How a New Dracula Movie Became a Focal Point in the Debate Over AI in Film

The celebrated Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude produces a clutch of truly disturbing sights in his latest film, Dracula , where mangled bodies and blood-gorged ghouls leer at the audience from the screen. But what makes these images efficient nightmare fuel stems from their construction more so than their appearance: they’re the product of AI rather than human artists. The famed fanged count of Transylvania feasts on victims in repose as their limbs entwine and mouths emerge in areas of the anatomy where mouths most certainly do not (and should not ) exist; the ghouls howl until their own faces fall off and they dissolve into what’s best described as visual fog, horrible and hideous all at once.

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