The thing about the vampire genre is that it teeters very delicately between awesome and cheese ball and very rarely falls in the middle. Sometimes the cheese ball vampires can still be awesome in their cheese ball ways, but sometimes they can be so not awesome. They know who they are. It’s the not awesome cheese ball vampires that cause me to go into viewing trailers like this one for Dracula Untold with a bit of a wince on my face.

BUT THIS TRAILER IS AWESOME

Give this trailer a chance. Come to the dark side and remember when vampires were rotten and gross and yet still magnetic.

Trailer: Dracula Untold

Dracula Untold starring Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon and Dominic Cooper is slated to hit theaters October 17th, 2014.