#Drakula Istanbul'da

[bush-or-bald]

Güzin Arsoy (Drakula Istanbul'da): Bush or Bald?

This is an interesting adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula set in Turkey instead of England, with character names changed accordingly along with their religion from Christianity to Islam. No crucifixes and communion wafers in this version!

Güzin is the equivalent to Mina from the original. Unlike Mina, Güzin's religion instructs her to remove body hair. Said the Prophet :

"The Fitrah is five things - or five things are part of the fitrah – circumcision, shaving the pubic hair, cutting the nails, plucking the armpit hairs, and trimming the moustache.”

So if Güzin is as devout in her faith as Mina, she's far less furry than her Christian counterpart. This cultural expectation would likely go double for a belly dancer who naturally shows more of her body than most women of her time.

Verdict: bald

[thebibi]

Love how Afif is just as much of a bisexual as Jack is talking about how handsome all his male friends are, and if I'm honest he's more forcoming about it??

Like Afif actually spoke about Resuhi (Van Helsing) and his adventures from medical school when he was deployed together with Touran (Arthur) and Ozdemir (Quincey). He just straight up fanboys "if only there were more mad men like him!" And when the professor gives blood, Afif makes note that now some of his brave and wonderful mentor's blood run through Sadan's (Lucy) veins.

And then with both Touran and Ozdemir, he talks about of course Resuhi would love them because they're just so handsome and brave and cool, it's so much more expressive all at once than how Jack describes them. It's just really unfortunate this intense love for men didn't translate in subsequent future editions.

[weirdlookindog]

Drakula Istanbul'da (1953)

[uselesstwinkharker]

For Dracula fans looking for less well-known film adaptations:

Drakula İstanbul'da (1953) - The Turkish one. Not the most thrilling but pretty close to the plot of the book.

Zinda Laash (1967) - The Pakistani one. Kind of a musical. Plot is extremely similar to the Hammer version and the ending is just as insane.

Dracula (1968) (from Mystery & Imagination) - A pretty slow TV version. Not exciting but good enough.

Cuadecuc, Vampir (1970) - A weird-ass art movie made mostly from behind-the-scenes footage of the 1970 Count Dracula.

Hrabě Drákula (1971) - The Czech one. Haven't seen it in a while but I remember it being solid.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1973) - The Jack Palance one. One-sided reincarnated wife situation. He does a Godzilla scream.

Bara no Konrei ~Mayonaka ni Kawashita Yakusoku~ (2001) - A pretty loose version made by Malice Mizer.

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002) - A ballet version.

Dracula’s Curse (2002) - All I remember about this movie is that it kind of sucks.

The Vulture’s Eye (2004) - A modern-day version set in Virginia. Low budget but unique and pretty good.

Alucard (2008) - THE singular most faithful-to-the-book version. Don't let the literal $1500 budget scare you off I swear to god it's perfect

Dracula (2009) - Maybe the worst one ever. So bad it's actually unbelievable. It's like a Birdemic vibe but totally incomprehensible. HIGHLY recommend

Dracula, Lord of the Damned (2011) - A wild semi-animated version with sort of a comic book vibe.

Terror of Dracula (2012) - Another low budget one that I don't remember much about, but it's decent enough for what it is.

[itsfinalgirl]

Drakula İstanbul'da (1953)

[spacetrashpile]

alright, this is my current list, though i am open to change if anyone has thoughts about different films i should swap in and what film i should swap them out for, or if i can't find a way to watch any of these films in the next month. i am also currently planning to watch these in release order, though i may put them all in a randomizer instead come october.

i am planning to rank each film out of 10 on two scales: 1. how much did i enjoy it and 2. is it actually a good dracula adaptation.

The Death of Dracula (1921)

Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror (1922)

Dracula (1931) (the Bela Lugosi one)

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Drakula Istanbul'da (1953)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)

Jonathan (1969/1970) (I found conflicting reports of when this one is from)

Count Dracula (1970)

Blacula (1972)

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

Jess Franco's Count Dracula (1973)

Andy Warhol's Dracula/Blood for Dracula (1974)

Evil of Dracula (1974)

Dan Curtis' Dracula (1974)

Deafula (1975)

Count Dracula (1977)

Dracula (1979)

Love at First Bite (1979)

Mama Dracula (1980)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Dracula 2000 (2000)

Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary (2002)

Van Helsing (2004)

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Dracula 3000 (2004)

Elvira's Movie Macabre: The Satanic Rights of Dracula (2010)

Bram Stoker's Van Helsing (2021)

Renfield (2023)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

y'know what would be super fun to do for halloween/october... watch one movie adaptation of dracula for each day in october and then rank them all at the end of the month

[atundratoadstool]

Jonathan Harker’s heart might be gladdened to see the Law List, but in the unauthorized 1928 Turkish remix of Dracula where the protagonists hail from Istanbul instead of London, Turkish Jonathan Harker (Azmi) drops the line “When I saw the journal of the Turkish Bar Association, I had the sweet sensation of seeing a close relative.”

[officialempressofhell]

So turkish Mina is an exotic dancer married to turkish Jonathan and she also drives her own car

Jonathan happily picks her up from work and no one is shaming her for her dancing

Idk about 1950s turkey, but this seems progressive fornthe 50s in general

[screamscenepodcast]

Your deadicated hosts travel to Turkey for the country's first horror film, DRAKULA İSTANBUL'DA (1953) from director Mehmet Muhtar! Starring Atif Kaptan as Dracula, Bülent Oran as Azmi (aka Jonathan Harker), and Annie Ball as Güzin (aka Mina).

Hear about the history of Turkey, its film industry, and the Dracula adaptation the film is inspired by, Kazıklı Voyvoda by Ali Riza Seyfi.

Book adaptation and history of Turkey 00:00; Film industry context setting 39:25; Synopsis 51:12; Discussion 1:07:28; Ranking 1:41:33

[bbcumbercutey]

MINA (MURRAY) HARKER in various Dracula adaptations [Movie Edition]

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922); Dracula (1931); Dracula - Spanish version (1931); Drakula İstanbul'da (1953); Horror of Dracula (1958); Count Dracula (1970); Dracula (1979); Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979); Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992); Dracula: Dead and Loving It  (1995); Dracula 3D (2012); Dracula Reborn (2012).

*This includes all the versions where Mina's character was renamed for whatever reasons

[vincentvangodot]

In the past two weeks I have watched every adaptation of Dracula I could find, twenty in all. (Not 'Dracula movies' in general, just the ones purporting to be adaptations of the book.) And now I’ve finished, just in time for Dracula’s second deathday.

Here is my list:

Nosferatu (1922)

Dracula (1931)

Dracula (Spanish) (1931)

Drakula İstanbul'da (1953)

Dracula (1958)

Dracula (Mystery and Imagination) (1968)

Count Dracula (1970)

Hrabě Drákula (1970)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974)

Count Dracula (1977)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Dracula (1979)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Bara no Konrei ~Mayonaka ni Kawashita Yakusoku~ (2002)

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)

Dracula (miniseries) (2002)

Dracula (2006)

Dracula Reborn (2012)

Dracula 3D (2012)

Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing (2021)

My opinions are as follows:

Dracula (1979) was my favorite adaptation when I’d only seen three, and it’s still my favorite now.

Hrabě Drákula is tied for most accurate adaptation with Count Dracula (1977) and the 2002 miniseries, which was somehow very faithful to the book despite being set in modern-day Hungary.

The Spanish version of Dracula (1931), which was filmed on the same sets at the same time as the English version but with different actors, is honestly a better movie than the English version in most respects. The dialogue is less stilted and the ending is less abrupt. If only they’d had Lugosi it would have been perfect.

Dracula Reborn is absolute trash, the only thing that could possibly have bumped Nosferatu the Vampyre up from the bottom of the list. A worthless movie it was actively painful to watch even at double speed.

Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing was a complete surprise, but really good! It’s on youtube and I recommend it. Actually, all but #12 are online on some site or other, which was extremely helpful.

Only two of these movies had Mina and Lucy kiss, and only two implied the Count’s attention towards Jonathan was homoerotic, and this is how I know few of the screenwriters read the book.

[thebibi]

You know what's so fascinating is how Afif is way less culturally religious than Jack ever is. I personally love this change. Afif is thoroughly dismayed that the Quran can be used to ward off vampires. He cannot recognize Resuhi pulling it out to recite when they are staking Sadan (This is like the equivalent of Van Helsing reciting from the Bible itself when they stake Lucy).

And then when Resuhi is arming everyone against Dracula when they go to raid his new home, he tells Afif:

For example, take one of these small Qurans I am holding and place it close to your heart. Doctor Afif, do not laugh at what I say; do not laugh. Even if it has no effect, the extra 25 grams will not hurt.

And this is actually so endearing, since Resuhi is more religious than him, yet he isn't offended at all. He basically reasons with Afif's rational side.

Afif is basically agnostic and can't believe he's in a story where monsters are Real. I would kill for an adaption like this.

[uselesstwinkharker]

güzin & şadan (mina & lucy)

[ratsandfashion]

Fun fact: The first film to depict Dracula as having fangs is “Drakula İstanbul'da” (Dracula in Istanbul) which is 1953 Turkish film that has the titular vampire come to Turkey instead of England. It’s still mostly a translation of the novel, just with Turkish characters instead of English (and American, in the case of Quincy Morris, but like most film adaptations this one omits him) with a few changes, namely that there’s no Renfield and that Guzin, the counterpart of Mina Harker, is a dancing girl rather than a schoolmistress. I haven’t seen it (I think I’d like to though!) but apparently the film very much draws “an explicit connection” (according to Wikipedia) with Vlad the Impaler, and like. . .from that angle, it honestly makes a lot of SENSE that he would want to go fuck things up for the Turks.

[gellavonhamster]

https://uquiz.com/q83M5d

I made an uquiz in which I assign you one of the Dracula adaptations that I’ve watched (possible results are Dracula (1931), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Count Dracula (1977), Drakula İstanbul'da (1953), Hrabě Drákula (1970), Dracula's Curse (2002), Dracula: A Chamber Musical, Dracula das Musical, Mina Murray's Journal, and Murray Mysteries)