Dracula Junior and the Cursed Gems

In a web-like maze of supernatural beliefs, the love between DJ – Dracula Junior? – and Ileana remains the only certainty, but this too will have to face lots of challenges coming from parallel dimensions.

The young man takes a deep breath and picks up in his palm a red, shiny stone. He grips it tightly, raising it to his chest with closed eyes. His lips, blue with cold, are pulled back in a rictus of pain. Suddenly, the stone begins to shine brightly, and the young man throws it on the sand, as if he got burned by it. Then, he watches closely, both fascinated and disgusted, as the red stone becomes an incandescent lighting, just like a piece of iron that’s being forged, for then to lengthen, to crouch, to grow, to swallow, to growl, to toss and turn and to finally to spread out wearily on the ground. The creature that has just been born from the young man’s hands looks like a giant frog, like a rotten corpse, with bluish, frozen skin and eyes just like the stone from which it was born.ˮ

How does a contemporary teenager from Los Angeles to be involved in a series of initiatic adventures deep into Transylvania, the land of his ancestors, despite the fact that he wanted to continue living his life as the spoiled son of a Hollywood star, who never takes off his sunglasses? How will DJ discover his fabulous powers and what role does his first love come to play in this new Twilight-like saga from some ‟barbarianˮ lands?

An epic succession of wondrous events, which consolidates the myth of a funny and very inventive Dracula Junior!

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An enchanting fantasy with unexpected twists, which projects – with a fine irony – the exceptional destinies of some fairy-like characters rediscovered in a contemporary setting.

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