Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew Up... in the Scholomance, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due. He learned all his secrets there.
Living... for the last three hundred years in a crumbling and secluded castle in Transylvania, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains. Life is getting too predictable in Transylvania, so Dracula is considering buying a house in London. He has summoned a young lawyer named Jonathan Harker to his castle to work out the real estate details.
Profession... in charge of his estate. But he doesn’t work during the day because he is confined in a wooden box between dawn and sunset.
Interests... sucking the blood of others (which helps restore his youth), controlling the weather, flying around as a bat, and turning into a wolf. Although Dracula has special powers, he becomes helpless when it comes to two items: crucifixes and garlic.
Relationship Status... married to three brides who live with him. But three women are not enough for Dracula. He is also deeply attracted to Lucy, a sweet and innocent woman who has many admirers, and Mina, Jonathan’s fiancé and Lucy’s best friend.
Challenge... dealing with the curse of his immortality. Dracula is a vampire and cannot die, but must go on adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world. For all that die from the preying of him become themselves Undead, and prey on their kind. It’s a circle of evil he can never escape. As he complains, "I am even more prisoner than the slave of a galley, than the madman in his cell. I long to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is."
Personality... serious, calculating, and mysterious. Everything Dracula does is carefully thought out with precision; he knows what he wants and usually gets it. Few can resist his charms and seductions, but beware of him. He is evil incarnate.
Get to Know him in...
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Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
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In the millenium version of this classic Gothic horror we find Abraham Van Helsing, who has tangled with Count Dracula in the past, working as an English antiques dealer. Simon is a vampire hunter in training under his apprenticeship.
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Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, including Vlad's son, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire Dracula.
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When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Dr. van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the count.
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A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later.
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Sam loves scary movies, especially the ones with Dracula. This year, instead of writing to Santa for Christmas, Sam writes to Dracula, telling Dracula that he wants to be a real vampire on Halloween this year. Sam is in for quite a surprise as the most famous of all vampires himself responds, in this fun and fanciful romp through a young boy's imagination, drawn in an engaging style that will delight young and old alike!
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The legend of vampire Count Dracula begins here with this original 1931 Dracula film starring Bela Lugosi.
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Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.
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After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle (apparently somewhere in Germany), the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
