Full Trailer for Netflix and the BBC’s Dracula Shows Its Teeth

The full official trailer for Netflix and the BBC’s three-part Dracula series dropped today and it looks to be a bloody good time. Over in the UK, the show is set to premiere with its first episode on New Year’s Day via BBC One and BBC iPlayer, with the remaining installments airing on January 2nd and 3rd.

For those of us who are stateside, we won’t have to wait long to catch up on this one as the show is coming to Netflix on January 4th. Regardless of where you are located, you can watch the latest trailer from BBC One above and check out the official US Netflix teaser just below.

Written and created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, with episodes directed by Jonny Campbell, Damon Thomas, and Paul McGuigan, the series is inspired by Bram Stoker’s classic novel and will re-introduce the world to Dracula, the vampire who made evil sexy. In Transylvania in 1897, the blood drinking Count is drawing his plans against Victorian London. Claes Bang (The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Square) plays the titular role of Dracula.

The series additionally stars John Heffernan (The Crown), Joanna Scanlan (Hold the Sunset), Dolly Wells (Can You Ever Forgive Me), Lujza Richter (Phantom Thread), Sacha Dhawan (The Boy with the Top Knot), Jonathan Aris (Sherlock), Morfydd Clark (Patrick Melrose), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Misfits), Catherine Schell (Doctor Who), Youssef Kerkour (Home), and Clive Russell (Game of Thrones).

The cast also includes Lyndsey Marshal (The League of Gentlemen), Chanel Cresswell (The Bay), Matthew Beard (The Imitation Game), Lydia West (Years & Years), Paul Brennen (Wild Bill), Sarah Niles (Catastrophe), Sofia Oxenham (Poldark), John McCrea (God’s Own Country), Phil Dunster (Humans), and Millicent Wong.

Dracula will premiere overseas on BBC One over three consecutive nights starting January 1st, 2020, while Netflix is bringing the series stateside on January 4th. Stay tuned for more updates ahead.

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