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#horror – #horrormovies – #Dracula – #ViaVision – @viavisionent – Four-disc set includes: Dracula (1931) After starring in the title role on Broadway four years earlier, Bela Lugosi became forever identified with the quintessential vampire, Count Dracula, of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. Di…
Started writing a #Dracula #fanfiction. In the novel by Bram Stoker, the extensive library of Count Dracula is mentioned which gave me the idea that of course he owns a copy of John Polidori's "The Vampyre" (from 1816) but thinks it's a lot of rubbish because the vampire is not depicted authentically. And of course he talks about this with Jonathan Harker.
I love it when texts get so meta. 
"Hi Count, I hear today's number is 3"
"Yes zat is right Grover, 1...2...3. Ha ha ha!"
"You know what letter the number 3 begins with?"
"Erm... zis is probably not a good idea Grover!"
"That's right! The letter T... Hey what's wrong with your friend?"
All shot using real figures & miniature sets. Had this idea for a while so thought I'd turn it into a fun photo.
In a nearby timeline
* Russel Crowe played Robin Hood
* Nicolas Cage played Neo
* Frank Langella played Dracula
Pues una vez vista justo después de leer el libro, he de decir que me ha cambiado el concepto que tenía de la peli, me ha fallado un poco como adaptación. Siempre creí que era la adaptación a la pantalla más fiel al libro que había, pero ahora diría incluso que es una adaptación muuuuuy libre.
Que ojo, sigue siendo un verdadero peliculón, pero hace lo que da la gana: más allá de las carencias y sacrificios comprensibles al cambiar de formato, pasa de puntillas por muchas cosas importantes mientras se inventa de la nada muchas otras que además comen mucho metraje. Vamos, es que la historia de amor entre el Conde y Mina llega a ser el eje central de la trama y es algo completamente inventado.
De todas formas, como digo, sigue siendo una gran película y en otros tramos más o menos fiel a la novela. Lo que más me ha gustado es esa atmósfera irreal y espeluznante que transmite muy bien el espíritu del libro, sobre todo en la parte que transcurre en Transilvania.
Y nota aparte: agradable sorpresa encontrarme entre las tres vampiresas que secuestran y abusan sexualmente de Johnathan Harker a una jovencita y voluptuosa Mónica Bellucci. No recordaba esto.
Bueno, pues una vez acabado el libro, me dispongo a revisionar el "Drácula" de Francis Ford Coppola en esta maravillosa edición metálica de coleccionista con escenas inéditas eliminadas. Ahora sí, a juzgar la adaptación.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
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#VictorianHorror #Nosferatu
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Terminado "Drácula", de Bram Stocker. Uno de mis regalos de Reyes, además en edición coleccionista con filos de las hojas dorados. Es que me picaba el gusanillo de leer algo de literatura clásica.
Me ha gustado, aunque creo que va perdiendo fuelle hacia el final y de hecho el final me ha decepcionado un poco, pero ha sido un viaje extraordinario al terror gótico/romántico del siglo XIX. La primera parte en el castillo de Drácula es realmente angustiosa y transmite muy bien el miedo a eso maligno que se muestra bajo la apariencia del Conde, lo mejor del libro en mi opinión con permiso del corto capítulo casi independiente dedicado al viaje en el Demeter, muy original y aterrador.
Curioso también ver ese espíritu decimonónico de la época en el papel de la mujer, encarnación de la pureza y la belleza divinas, y el concepto del amor romántico.
Lectura recomendable, desde luego. Ya estoy preparado para revisionar la versión de Coppola y comparar.
I can't help but see parallels between this voyage and the voyage to England of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel, on a ship containing boxes of earth from his home country, and its dramatic arrival in Whitby. Could Bram Stoker have heard this fishy story and been inspired to create a similar scene in his book? The part that gets me is the name on the box - "Dr. Ackland" - could this name have inspired the name of the world's most famous vampire?
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Did a fish inspire one of the most famous works of gothic horror literature? A pet theory of mine.
In 1847 a ship bound from the Mediterranean to England is caught in a terrible storm in the Bay of Biscay. The crew are supersitious that a mysterious, coffin-like box on board the ship could be the cause of their bad fortune. The box bears only the address of an Oxford academic - could it be a cadaver bound for the doctor's dissection table? Soon the crew are demanding for the box to be opened. The carpenter removes the fastenings from the box, opens the lid and reveals ... a large Tuna packed in salt.
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I have ideas again for a #fanfiction, for #Dracula by Bram Stoker, but make it queer and with #polyamory. 
As you can imagine, I am not the first who came up with that idea. There are over 200 fanfics about Dracula with more or less polyamory, on AO3, some including his brides, others pairing up most of the male characters, including Arthur Holmwood and Dr. Seward.
Writing such a fanfic would give me an excuse to return to one of my favourite historical eras, the late Victorian.
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What's that flapping noise? Might it be ... #vampires in our library?!
On 04/04/25 for #NachtDerBibliotheken blood-thirsty creatures of the night will haunt SUB Göttingen in Dorothea Schuller's #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies talk on #libraries in #VampireFiction: #Dracula #Nosferatu #BtVS & more
In a nearby timeline
* Fyvush Finkel played James Bond
* Arnold Swarzenegger played the T-800 Terminator
* Christopher Lee played Dracula
In a nearby timeline
* Harrison Ford played Lt. Col. Frank Slade
* Bela Lugosi played Dracula
* Randy Harrison and Gale Harold starred in Queer as Folk
Nice! Someone on the #Kagi discord made a #Dracula version of my #Catppuccin theme!
CometDog/kagi-dracula-alucard-theme: Dracula/Alucard Theme for Kagi Search/Assistant
Finally got to watching #Nosferatu and my wife and I thought it was... Okay. I can appreciate what they were going for, leaning more into the living corpse and walking death stuff, even with the color tone of the film, but I'd definitely refer to it as a slightly dull retelling of Dracula, even with the interesting twist to Orlok's prey (which I wish they did something more with at the end...) It makes me want to rewatch Bram Stoker's #Dracula with Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Gary Oldman. It also makes me wish even more that we could get a really good movie based on #Bloodborne , moreso because of the setting and costumes.
Ah, because nothing screams "secure" like a notorious #malware host shacking up with an #antivirus company. 
It's like #Dracula moving into a garlic factory for the free samples. 
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/notorious-malware-spam-host-prospero-moves-to-kaspersky-lab/ #cybersecurity #humor #garlicfactory #HackerNews #ngated
