Posted on 03/31/2020 6:58:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dracula-centric projects, from Universal's remake to Renfield to the series The Brides are blooming. But what brought the Count back?
Vampires are at the top of the horror-movie monster pyramid, and their fans have enjoyed watching them onscreen almost since the dawn of film as a medium. In the past decades alone, interest has peaked with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. However, despite being adapted many times, Dracula hasn't been a huge deal in pop culture since Francis Ford Coppola took the Count out for a spin in 1992, when the director adapted Bram Stoker's epistolary novel into a sweeping historical action-romance.
That seems to be changing, though. Not only did Netflix and BBC premiere a Dracula miniseries in January, but before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic shuttered many movie and film productions, there were three Dracula-inspired projects ready to start. Universal was working on a new movie focused on Renfield, Dracula's servile ghoul. While Blumhouse had started developing another adaptation centered on Dracula himself. And there was even The Brides, a TV show about the women Dracula turned into vampires. And that's just TV and film: in the realm of comic books, Captain America is already battling Vlad Tepes in Marvel's Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula #1 and Image Comics announced a pulpy '70s retelling in Dracula, [Explitive]!
I was expecting killer robots to come back first but maybe that was "Westworld".
Everything in cycles.
I was never a big fan of zombies. Mainly because a lot of movies and shows lately will often make them fast and clever—which zombies (traditionally) are not.
Dracula/Vampires I like more as a monster villain, but the entertainment medium is still over-saturated with them in movies and shows.
I recently watched ‘Shadow of the Vampire’ and it was a real hoot! Willem Dafoe was outstanding.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189998/
There's a Russian series on Netflix that is really good if you can handle subtitles. "Better Than Us"
His appeal is the same as Cthulu.
Copyright has run out and the intellectual property is free.
His appeal is the same as Cthulu.
Copyright has run out and the intellectual property is free.
They walk among us.
They are inconspicuous!
They will steal from you and your children!
...when they are not killing them.
They lie and swear its the truth.
They will call you a Nazi when in fact they stand for everything the Nazis stood for.
They control your media and your childs education.
MARVELous crap presents, your worst nightmare
Youtube has taken the English-subtitled version down, but there was a 2013 Russian series that did a different and clever take on Sherlock Holmes. I think you can find some episodes from it, but only in the original Russian.
The old Soviet Union did a series of Sherlock Holmes films from 1979-86 that can easily be found on Youtube and with English subtitles. Those were also fun.
Sorry, no vampires.
Next up: Killer robots with AI.
Make Wallachia Great Again.
Didn’t they just do a Terminator movie???
The Sherlock team’s newest show will make you wonder if you ever liked Sherlock
There are two big problems that arise when you decide you’re going to tell a story about Dracula.
The first one is simple: he’s the most famous vampire in all of fiction, perhaps the most widely known horror villain in the world. This makes surprising people difficult.
The other is that everyone thinks they know what Dracula is about, so each take is battling against dozens of other ideas at any given moment that range from goofy cartoon characters to Hollywood legends. This generally means any Dracula portrayal should, at the very least, have a clear idea of what it wants to be, even if it isn’t very different.
Dracula, the new Netflix / BBC series from the creators of Sherlock, absolutely does not.
I’m more interested in what the real vampires are up to.
Vampires have been around for a while, just not Dracula. I think people were happy to get away from him and have new stories with teen and young adult vampires. Drac was too dead, white, and male, and no longer as sexy as our grandmothers thought. Now that he’s back, does that mean the industry has run out of new ideas again?
“Dracula is Having a Pop-Culture Moment”
Dracula knows how popular culture sucks.
Zombies used to be dead persons controlled by witch doctors.
In the novel, Mina was the most competent member of the Scooby gang.
But since her strength was the result of her strong faith and morality, that aspect has always been overlooked in the movies.
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