Italian horror maestro Dario Argento, the man who shocked the world with films like DEEP RED and SUSPIRIA, is back, shifting gears after the surreal phantasmagoria of MOTHER OF TEARS and the slasher psychodrama of GIALLO into a full-blown Gothic horror show with his hotly anticipated DRACULA 3D. The film is currently in postproduction, but FANGORIA wants to give LA-area fans an exclusive look at Argento’s latest masterwork in progress—for free!

A rough, 25-minute 3D preview of DRACULA 3D will be screened at the 2011 American Film Market on Saturday, November 5, courtesy of producers Roberto Di Girolamo and Gianni Paolucci. Select cast will be in attendance, including Thomas Kretschmann, who dons the fangs as Drac, and Rutger Hauer, who plays his eternal nemesis Van Helsing. There are three screenings, at 9 a.m., 9:45 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., taking place at the Criterion Theatre, 1313 Third Street Promenade, Screen 4 in Santa Monica. To secure your spot at one of the shows, e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and tell us what time you would prefer to attend.

If you’re in the Santa Monica area, you will not want to miss this one-of-a-kind chance to see an Argento film in its earliest stages of completion and—a first for the director—in stunning polarized 3D. And be sure to pick up Fango #308 when it streets later this month. It features a campy, garish painted image of Argento as a Hammer-era Christopher Lee-esque bloodsucker on the cover—the perfect visual metaphor for his delightfully demented take on Bram Stoker’s oft-mined classic tale of terror. Inside is even better, with five pages of exclusive DRACULA 3D coverage and a look at the new wave of horror coming out of Italy.

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