Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez
The Drac Pack is back, and the stakes have never been… more awkwardly relatable. Hotel Transylvania 5: Fright of Passage marks the long-awaited return of the legendary Count Dracula (Adam Sandler). Having recently embraced retirement and relative peace, Drac is violently pulled back into action for what he considers his most terrifying and life-threatening mission yet: surviving his beloved half-vampire grandson’s volatile teenage years.
Dennis, now a fiercely rebellious 16-year-old, delivers a seismic shock to the entire monster family with a truly horrifying announcement: he is bored with the safety of Hotel Transylvania and demands to attend a regular human high school in the confusing, overly-sunny suburbs. While his human father, Johnny (Andy Samberg), is thrilled by this step toward normalcy, Drac is utterly paralyzed with immortal fear. Convinced that Dennis is not ready for the inherent cruelty and terrifying social norms of human teenagers, Drac formulates a drastic, highly unnecessary, and predictably disastrous scheme.
Drac recruits his most reliable monster pals—Frankenstein (Kevin James), Wayne the Werewolf, and Murray the Mummy—to go undercover at the high school. Armed with hilariously outdated knowledge of human culture, the group poses as the world’s weirdest collection of substitute teachers, gym coaches, and cafeteria staff, all with the sole mission of “protecting” Dennis from social threats.
As Mavis (Selena Gomez) tries desperately to give her son the independence he craves, Drac’s ridiculously overprotective and old-fashioned monster schemes backfire spectacularly. Their attempts to subtly influence the school environment only result in epic supernatural chaos, turning mandatory spirit week into a spectral nightmare, and culminating in the high school prom becoming an unforgettable, monster-induced disaster zone. Dennis, meanwhile, is navigating first crushes and trying to hide his family’s escalating antics from his new human friends.
Filled with classic slapstick humor, profoundly heartwarming family moments, and a killer soundtrack mixing monster beats with teenage pop anthems, Hotel Transylvania 5 hilariously explores the one thing scarier than confronting an ancient mummy or facing a vampire hunter: navigating the unpredictable, emotional, and utterly transformative process of puberty.