#dracula

[aquilacalvitium]

[georgeromeros]

A L U C A R D <━> D R A C U L A in Movies

Son of Dracula (1943) dir. Robert Siodmak

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) dir. Alan Gibson

The Monster Squad (1987) dir. Fred Dekker

[poidkea]

I’ve been reading Dracula for the first time, im about halfway through, here’s my take on it so far

The polycule learns about monster hunting

[fandorahsbox]

Mina gets Jonathan’s one sentence “I’m so fine and definitely not being held hostage at all” letter and is immediately like “Jonathan is a yapper, something is wrong”

[lynxbatics]

Reading Dracula. When does she show up?

[salazar-bollinger]

[professorsparklepants]

It is still sooooooo fucking funny that tumblr, the "fuck that old man" website, the villain apologist website, AND the paranormal boyfriend website read Dracula and went "Count Dracula sucks, we hate this dude." Planetary alignment levels of unlikely.

[remusjohnslupin]

LITERATURE SERIES: Vampires

“Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon

[emjee]

@monstrousproductions

There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"

[immediatebreakfast]

Also, now I notice that everything around Lucy is all about the steps towards a new "period". She is in between the stages of victorian youth and adulthood, she is both walking and sleeping, and she is having her wedding in autumn, a season in between life and death where the chills of winter are slowly rising while nature still feels the remants of summer.

[sykes]

We hear a lot about Lucy sleepwalking because Dracula arrives and she's now sexually stirred and she totally seeks him carnally because she's Wanton for wanting to marry three men or whatever but in fact she is first reported sleepwalking while Dracula is countries away at sea, and it gets explained by Mina that she's had this condition ever since he was a child (and also her father sleepwalked), and that now because she's anxious about getting married it manifests in her sleep condition. It's also possible that because Mina is so anxious about Jonathan now that she got a suspicious letter on top of his long delay, it influences Lucy's "super-sensitive" nerves.

[kazz-brekker]

in dracula there is a cowboy and the female lead lives. in nosferatu there is no cowboy and the female lead dies. ergo, the existence of a cowboy is highly important for the survival of the female lead in a gothic vampire story.

[alixanderkrex]

i am obsessed with this and need an entire essay on it like last year. wonderful!

Also, while on the topic, i highly rec you peep this series if you like dracula, as i did. It really helped me feel validated in a lot of interpretations i couldn't explain.

had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”

[aquilacalvitium]

"I am unhappy about Jonathan. I had not heard from Jonathan for some time, and was very concerned."

[psiotechniqa]

oh I love this idea... the GMD style would fit a dracula story perfectly

Great Mouse Detective version of Dracula happening simultaneously as the events of Dracula, so there’s just five mice in Victorian clothes unnoticed by the human cast desperately trying to kill a bat.