Zombies used to be dead persons controlled by witch doctors.
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]!
Zombies used to be dead persons controlled by witch doctors.
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There was the movie “Blackula”...why not “Latincula”? “Chinicula”?
Wokeula sucks the fun out life!
I dunno... I’ve always liked the ‘’giant bug’’ pictures of the 1950s. Movies like “Them’’ with James Arness and Joan Weldon(hubba hubba, what a doll.) Or “Tarantula’’ with Mara Corday, another hot dish.
I was big fan in the 50s Those movies are attributed to many people in my generation’s fear of nuclear energy. Remember it was always some leak or radiation that caused the giant spiders etc.
Batman kicked The Counts undead ass (I’ve got the movie).
Actually a lot of those new stories have Dracula making an appearance at some point.
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