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...ANNOTATED DRACULA by BRAM STOKER...
Seventy-eight years have passed since Bram Stoker dredged him from the velvet underground of Victorian sexual repression. The authentic apocalypse of war, the real specter of deprivation, should have exorcised this titled vampire long ago. Instead, Count Dracula has become the Western world's most durable ghoul. There are Dracula dolls, songs, comic books and histories-proving the existence of a 15th century tyrant dubbed Dracul (dragon). Vampire movies have been made almost since the dawn of cinema and, according to Editor Leonard Wolf, there are now more than 200 Draculoid film titles, ranging from the silent Nosferatu...
...this giddy and gruesome camp-out on the bones of Bram Stoker, Count Dracula (Udo Kier) is a vegetarian, fussy about his daily diet, and dying for a heartening draught of blood from an unspoiled young woman. Anton, the count's assistant, insists on classifying young ladies of this type as "wirgins," in his Carpathian accent. The count's homeland being fresh out of them, Anton suggests moving to Italy, where the influence of "Holy Mother Church" promises countless young maidens...
DRACULA, from the Bram Stoker novel, not to mention the Bela Lugosi movie. There are a lot of weak points in this production, but on the whole it's quite enjoyable, especially if you like vampires. 8 p.m. at the Loeb...
...sure what she'd have thought of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which I'm told features three Victorian heroes who wander around waving crosses at a rate unmatched at least since Christ was a corporal. In the adaptation now at the Loeb, Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston wisely cut out two heroes and a surplus Victorian heroine but they left all the crosses in. Their hearts, at least, were in the right place...