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...abstract and opaque. Yet at times it is brutally beautiful, lavishly choreographed - a pagan ritual in evening dress. The script, which has some vague relation to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, concerns the exploits of a university student named Jonathan who is dis patched by his professor to scout a prospective raid on a vampire fortress...
Nosferatu. F.W. Murnau's 1921 film was the first screen version of Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, and one of the more intriguing works of German Expressionism. Special effects within a natural setting create a macabre atmosphere unmatched by the remakes but Max Schreek, as the vampire, doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first...
...rest is a windy literary turn. He sketches the history of Gilles de Rais, the 15th century French child murderer, who was not a vampire. He gives a gloss of Rider Haggard's She, which is not about vampires, and a 20-page summary of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, which is. It is here that the single idea of Wolfs book is developed. This is the notion that the force of Stoker's novel derives from the sensual repressions of the Victorian Age. Of course he is correct. The fantasy of a tall intruder...
...authors of In Search of Dracula, he was a fright to believe in. The book clears him of one notable charge: by examining Rumanian, Russian, German and French folklore of the 15th century, in which Dracula figures vividly, it establishes that he was not a vampire. That was Bram Stoker's libel; needing a monstrous name and a far-off place for his fantasy, he chose Dracula and Transylvania. The real Dracula, son of Dracul (the name means dragon), was a Christian prince and mass murderer who lived in what is now Rumania, at the edge of the Turkish...
...epics, with titles like Countess Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, One Million Years B.C. and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb. Each is turned out on a near-strangulation budget and schedule ($500,000 and 25 shooting days). The plots, usually lifted from some Victorian romancer like Bram Stoker or Sheridan Le Fanu, are as creaky as the doors of Castle Dracula. The starlets who flit through prehistoric landscapes or quaint Transylvanian villages, bosoms heaving with fright, seem as interchangeable as the sets...