#dracula

[moodsandtenses]

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?"

[underafullmoon3]

My all-time favorite book

[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.

[cinary]

I've just watched Coppola's Dracula and I want to murder a lot of people. I've avoided it previously, but my film studies profesor recommended watching it before watching the newest Nosferatu. And like, the music is genius, the scenography is incredible and the atmosfere of the true gothic horror is amazing. But god as an adaptation it's horrible.

I tried to approach it as a canon divergence, what would happen if kinda scenario to deal with Mina being Dracula's love and that even worked. For like 1/3 of the film. Then it all went downhill.

Lucy being targeted because she was lustfull and disloyal was so misogynistic. Mina choosing Dracula and loving him was horrible. Oh and yeah sure it's more sexual than the book but that's not the problem, the vampires are sexual, it was just more subtle in the book because of the times. But in here it's targeted. All sex in the book was violent and then the victims were treated with respect. In this adaptation? Um, actually they were asking for it. What victims, they enjoyed it. And actually they deserved all that happened because they were lustfull hoes. That change was just disgusting.

In the book the women were not only pretty, they were also incredibly smart, skillful and kind. Lucy's story was a tragedy. So almost was Mina's. The original doesn't treat them kinder but it treats them with grace. And it acknowledges all of the sacrifices they made, all of the pain they went through to get rid of Dracula.

Somehow a book over a 100 years older than the film treats women so much better. I'm filled with rage. Either let a woman direct another adaptation or leave this book the fuck alone if you cannot read.

[corpseventual]

Not gonna lie...I don't like the idea of Dracula being in love with Mina, I never felt he was in love with her at least in the book (in any case, he was in love with Jonathan lmao).

[major-gilneass]

@duraxxor

[denissepalacios21]

KATIE MCGRATH IN A NEW SHORT FILM, CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION !! 💚

AND A NEW PHOTO OF KATIEE 🔥

📸:@lukemulveymedia via- Ig

[fascinationstreetmp3]

Keep your heart to yourself, give your soul to the night… Come to me when you're lonely… Come to me when you need something new… — Fright Night (1985), Come to Me

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992) INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022—) NOSFERATU (2024)

[thedrawingduke]

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

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Bram Stoker: I mean... yeah. Yeah, that's pretty much what the whole book is about.

Lewiston Morning Tribune, May 29, 1931.

[see-arcane]

Mina: "Alright, everyone pinkie swear right now to put Vampire Me down if I hop the line between death and undeath."

Van Helsing and the Suitor Squad: "Depressing, but sure, absolutely."

Jonathan:

Mina: "...Jonathan?"

Jonathan: "Yes?"

Mina: "Will you promise to slay me if I get vampire'd?"

Jonathan: "Mina, I will not lie to you."

Jonathan:

Mina: "Jonathan. I need you to look me in the eye and promise to murder me martyr-style if I get too undead."

Jonathan: "Fine. I can promise to kill."

Mina: "Me? Vampire me?"

Jonathan, making unbroken eye contact with the four guys who just promised to behead and impale his wife if she stops being human enough: "I guarantee there will be killing involved if Vampire You happens."

[mysharona1987]

[thatsbelievable]

[sadocadaver]

🖤.🖤-🦇

NOSFERATU (2024) — dir. Robert Eggers

[cry-ptidd]

How do I make this about Jonmina