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Somehow, more faithful than a movie called Bram Stoker's Dracula

Hahaha. I mean yes and no.

Coppola's Dracula (BSD from herein) does have all the necessary moving parts. Three brides! Whitby! Lucy's three suitors INCLUDING ACTUAL QUINCEY! Renfield! All of the lines! Dracula growing young and being unharmed by sunlight!

In a way it is a bloodier, raunchier, more in-your-face version of Stoker's book the same way 2024-25 Nosferatu is a bloodier, raunchier version of the 1922 Nosferatu.

But the Dracumina romance is a cancer in the heart of that movie's authenticity (and every Dracula movie it's in). Not only does it render most of the book-faithful elements of the movie nonsensical given the context of the 'romance' but it sucks all the horror out of the story and the vampire whenever it rears its head.

Whereas the Ellen/Orlok connection in 2025 Nosferatu IS the horror. The darkness and ugliness and ambiguity and inevitability of this woman drawing this ancient bloodsucking corpse man to her like a magnet and destroying absolutely everyone in her vicinity while everyone around her punishes or dismisses her for her desperate attempts to warn them is deeply unsettling from frame one.

And it doesn't humanize Orlok. In some ways it makes him less human, more like a bound familiar, her personal, contracted Mephistopheles, or maybe even a Tulpa, an imaginary friend made (rotting) flesh. He's the conflict of her most primal urges with the stifling world around her incarnated and the fact that he's NOT a suave hot vampire guy but a repulsive decaying plague-ridden corpse is perfect.

Because he's also the incarnation of her own revulsion, fear and self-loathing at the aformentioned desires (and where they conflict with her failure to fit in with the ideals of the people around her) and that's why it works for me, that's what sells it, where BSD's Dracumina romance is...just a soppy melodramatic romance, straight up, and it kinda kills that movie for me now.

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So, I saw the new Nosferatu. I do have a lot of Thoughts, particularly about how that was a much more novel canon Dracula than I've seen in the last dozen or so movies actually featuring a character called 'Dracula'.

In short, if you are a gothic horror fan and you haven't seen Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, get your lazy butts out of your coffins and GO.

I'll be sure to write something more later.

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Anyone else thinking Stoker's full intention was to present Dracula as this Eldritch abomination who is one with the darkness and storms and whose very presence could cause madness and chaos? Anyone else now annoyed that Dracula is watered down in modern adaptations?

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I like how the Dracula novel not only shows that the men's decision to exclude Mina (due to the fact that she is a woman and they believe being exposed to their mission to destroy Dracula would be too much for her nerves) is a bad idea that puts her and them at risk and results in tragedy, but also shows that even before she ends up getting hurt, she is made more nervous and unhappy by being kept in the dark. The readers are shown how not being told what's going on makes her worried and sad, and also puts a great strain on her by not letting her feel close to her husband the way they had been when they communicated. And it also shows that it hurts their relationship.

I think this is really striking. Given that the book was written in the 1890s, many readers would probably automatically understand and agree with the men's viewpoints. The book invites us to see the other side - how it negatively affects Mina and her relationships with the other characters and accomplishes the opposite of what was intended. It invites us to see the hypocrisy, and how she is no more sensitive than any of the other characters, and to empathize with the suffering and hurt that being shut out causes her, as well as to see how the lack of communication brings risk on all of them. It's really interesting choice. The book is, of course, still dated, but there are many parts that are surprisingly progressive for the time.

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I wish there were more things like it but I fear there might be nothing like it ever again.

It was, for a show based on a gothic horror novella, one of the most joyful and sincere pieces of media I've ever seen.

Carmilla (2014-2017) really did have it all huh. Lesbians. Vampires. Cults. Mildly toxic main relationship. Canon nonbinary character. Most of the action happening offscreen. Shitty special effects. One (1) straight character and he was a himbo. Sponsored by a period products brand. Some pretty damn good costuming for that low of a budget. And it was all literally just a college au fanfic of a novel from the 19th century. Truly peak entertainment.

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I think this is my favorite Old Man Dracula design I've ever seen. it's genuinely terrifying and I want to see it in a film.

No I haven't seen the new Nosferatu yet, no spoilers.

There’s been so much hype for Nosferatu and confusion over his facial hair, that I had to draw some Novel Dracula and his very canonical mustache. The description of him post-feed, bloated, leech-like in his coffin….golly, still haunts me to this day. I imagine him being very animalistic…with the boyar fur coats giving him a hairy, tarantula/wolf appearance. Maybe his mouth is always a little open…and I just know that guy smells so bad. He’s hardly the debonair Bela-type he’s become.

Anyway, this was fun…I’m snowed in this weekend, so I plan to draw as much as I can <3

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even the tiniest saddest dracula sucks a blood .

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I. Really like tha monster

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As far "sympathetic" iterations of Dracula go, what are your thoughts on the Werner Herzog Nosferatu Drac?

It's a very good film that I enjoyed a lot. The moody cinematography, understated but eerie music are definite pluses. Isabelle Adjani at the peak of her luminous gorgeousness. Kinski is always going to give you something to work with and he makes Dracula/Orlok (I cannot bring myself to call bald nosferatu vampire "Dracula" I know he is but Nosferatu became its own thing in my head long ago) feel pathetic and unsettling at the same time.

It's an interesting take. I find Shreck's Nosferatu much more chilling, nothing can quite replace the original, I'll be interested to see what Eggers does with his remake.

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i hate how people try to push the “dracula is dateable” agenda, but the most abysmal thing is that, while pushing this agenda, they don’t bring up the stoker book fact that he’s willing to cook a good meal and clean an entire house like a one-man resort. men don’t know what women want.

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Kinda feel like there's some untapped meme/reaction image potential from old horror movie trailers...

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Ok, so in the original Bram Stoker novel, sunlight is not lethal to Dracula. He just loses most of his powers. I'm bringing this up cuz I want a horror comedy where the hero, sensing dawn, tears off the curtains as a last-ditch effort only to have the vampire go "Aw shit, there goes most of my fancy powers. Guess I'll have to beat your ass the old-fashioned way" then proceeds to just deck the hero cuz a vampire at half-strength is still a fucking vampire.

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Ok, so in the original Bram Stoker novel, sunlight is not lethal to Dracula. He just loses most of his powers. I'm bringing this up cuz I want a horror comedy where the hero, sensing dawn, tears off the curtains as a last-ditch effort only to have the vampire go "Aw shit, there goes most of my fancy powers. Guess I'll have to beat your ass the old-fashioned way" then proceeds to just deck the hero cuz a vampire at half-strength is still a fucking vampire.

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