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New watch list! After the weird and off-putting poorly handled abuse analogy that was Nosferatu 2024, it’ll be nice to see some classic vampire media again.
extremely unprofessional reviews of dracula adaptations ft. my overdramatic commentary
hello and welcome to my 100% Scientific Evaluation of Various Dracula Films! my credentials are that i recently read the novel and am now firmly in the clutches of a vampire obsession, have too much free time, and never grew out of my goth phase.
ill be rating each adaptation (using a completely arbitrary and subjective 10-point scale) on how faithful it is to the book, how gothic it is in terms of aesthetics, and how much i personally liked it overall. ill also be rating - and this is crucial - how hot each film’s version of count dracula is, because im gay and i have a crush on him.
spoilers ahead.
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Suitable for inducting future children of the night into the horror genre, for horror fans new and old, this film is an essential viewing featuring horror icon Bela Lugosi in the titular role of Dracula.
Overall, this film has quite the suspenseful cinematographic atmosphere though it can feel a bit stiff and disconnected at times. Some of my favorite scenes involve Dracula getting out of his coffin under his creepy crypt or when the camera focuses on his eyes when he compels his victims. Honestly, Lugosi brings out the Stranger Danger!!! bell warnings every time he appears on the screen.
Aside from Bela Lugosi, I personally felt that Dwight Frye and Edward Van Sloan, who played Renfield and Dr. Van Helsing respectively, really stole the show with their acting especially Frye when portraying Renfield's madness. Sloan really brings out Dr. Van Helsing's confidence in dealing with Dracula with his arsenal of crosses and wolfsbane.
The entire movie is roughly over an hour so it's a good pick for a quick horror sesh and as I've said before, due to the lack of blood and at most, suggestive biting from Dracula himself, the movie can be a good introduction to young minds ready to be warped into the horror genre.
Happy Hauntings!
iv been rewatching a bunch of the old universal horror films and it immediately took me out of my artblock
Renfield from Dracula can be faster than a car and I have evidence.
Carfax Abbey is in London. (marked red)
Seward Sanitorium is in Whitby. (marked purple)
It is a plot point (at least in the 1931 film) that Renfield escaped the sanitorium and fled to London, where he knew Dracula would be. These locations are estimated to be 231 km apart. It would take about 5-6 days to travel this distance, though he seems to end his journey within mere hours. It is presumed he didn’t use a carriage. The trip, car or train interchangeably, is roughly 5 hours. Let’s assume his journey to return to Dracula was 3 hours. 231 / 3 = 77 km/h.
Renfield’s running speed can reach up to 77km/h or higher (we don’t know what he’s capable of)
This is beautiful and haunting at the same time
Bela Lugosi about his female fans
Hey, if you've never seen my face, I am a Bio Woman with PCOS that results in this beard. Happy PCOS awareness Month!
Anyways, I'm rewatching my favorite movie, while playing ACNH and soaking my knees, when I noticed something disturbing.
Lmk if you can guess what's missing from the movie!
Dapper Frye
Defeatedfield
Surprised boy
Vint glade
i don’t know why but this has deeply annoyed me since I watched the Renfield movie
The movie itself is good, I thought it was entertaining, but it irritated me slightly on how Renfield was (visually) portrayed in it.
(yapping under the cut)
The main things were honestly height and hair color.
Dwight frye was good because he had a physically unthreatening presence, being lean and shorter than the average man at 5’7”
Nicholas Hoult’s is also rather physically untreatening, also being lanky, but he’s 6’3” (taller than both Cage!Dracula at 6’ and Lugosi!Dracula at 6’1), which takes away part of the effect.
I don’t know why, but the hair and eye color also annoyed me.
Dwight frye was said to have had light brown hair and blue eyes.
Nicholas hoult has dark brown, almost black, hair and dark brown eyes.
below are images of Nicholas Hoult as Renfield, and some colorized images of Dwight Frye
Renfield Headcanons (pre-mania)!!
i’ll make another for my headcanons on him for after he met Dracula and became his familiar :3
Idc what the movie Renfield says, this man was never married. He’d never really been interested in having a family, always putting his work first.
His parents raised him well and he was taught to be respectful. He can be talking to the most icky garbage trash person, and he will still be saying “please” and “thank you”
He minds his business because “if it doesn't affect me, I don't need to be involved.”
He is 100% American and had not ever been to England
He’s a scientific kinda guy, so he doesn't believe in things unless there’s some kind of proof (still Christian, though casually)
He likes children and thinks they’re cute. He doesn't want kids of his own, but he almost wishes he had a sibling so he could have nieces/nephews to play with and help take care of