"I don't drink...wine."
It’s 1897. St Mary’s Convent, Budapest plays host to a desiccated husk of a human being, Jonathan Harker; an English lawyer with a strange and unsettling story to tell. Listening in is the kind and inquisitive Sister Agatha, a nun with a more-than-ordinary-interest in the creatures of the night.
Invited to Transylvania to meet the reclusive Count Dracula, Harker finds himself trapped in an ancient, terrifying castle, a maze of corridors and vaults: a prison without locks. Dracula is a four-hundred-year-old vampire who has grown weary of his own exhausted country and has set his sights on the new world. As the shadows lengthen and Harker’s account unfolds it becomes clear that the remorseless vampire may have unfinished business with his erstwhile guest…
DRACULA
(3×90’) for BBC and Netflix.
Released in the UK on January 1st 2020 (BBC One and BBC iPlayer).
Released worldwide on January 4th 2020 (Netflix).
Written and Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Starring Claes Bang, Dolly Wells, John Heffernan, Joanna Scanlan, Morfydd Clark, and Lydia West.
Directed by Jonny Campbell, Damon Thomas, and Paul McGuigan.
Co-produced by Louise Say.
Executive Produced by Sue Vertue, Steven Moffat, and Mark Gatiss for Hartswood Films