BBC One’s Dracula: Blood curdling new images reveal showdown with nuns – RadioTimes

The BBC has released bloody curdling brand new pictures from the upcoming three-part Dracula series, created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss and starring Claes Bang as the eponymous vampire.

From the new cache of images, we learn that in the series Dracula visits a creepy-looking nunnery, but whether he goes there willingly or not is left to the imagination, particularly in this picture (above) where the blood-splattered vampire appears to be behind bars.

However, in the below picture hes looking out over the assembled nuns is the stage set for a massacre? Or have the vampire-battling nuns (first seen the shows teaser trailer) got some stakes up their sleeves?

Mother Superior (Joanna Scalan), Dracula (Claes Bang) and Sister Agatha (Dolly Wells)

Were also introduced to another major character from Bram Stokers book of the same name,Jonathan Harker (played by John Heffernan), anEnglish solicitor who visits Draculas castle only to soon discover that hes being kept captive.

Jonathan Harker (John Heffernan)

We also meet a new female character called Dorabella (Lily Dodsworth-Evans), who in this behind-the-scenes shot appears to be on a dock waiting for or about to board a ship, most likely a Russian ship from the original book called The Demeter, where Dracula enacts a gradual massacre over the weeks of his voyage from Transylvania to Whitby, England.

Behind-the-scenes image of Dorabella (Lily Dodsworth-Evans)

There are also images of the Count onboard The Demeter, while another shows him on the ship and apparently threatening a young character called Yamini (Lily Kakkar) perhaps a reworked version of the book character Wilhelmina Mina Harker, whom the Count controls by feeding her his blood.

Olgaren (Youssef Kerkour), Piotr (Samuel Blenkin), Captain Sokolov (Jonathan Aris), Dracula (Claes Bang), Dr Sharma (Sacha Dhawan)

Yamini (Lily Kakkar)

Finally, we also get another glimpse of Lord Ruthven, the terrified man whom viewers might recognise from the end of the shows teaser trailer, as Draculasmiles at his young victim.

Try and stay calm, he says. Youre doing very well.

Lord Ruthven (Patrick Walsh McBride)

Looks like its going to be a scary start to the New Year

Its been revealed that Dracula will air its first episode (called The Rules of the Beast) on New Years Day (Wednesday 1st January) at 9.00pm on BBC1. The subsequent episodes will air on the two days after.

Watch the teaser trailer below:

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BBC One's Dracula: Blood curdling new images reveal showdown with nuns - RadioTimes

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