Count Dracula

Black Mirror is a psychological thriller and science fiction anthology series created in 2011 by Charlie Brooker. An anthology series depicts a different story and separate characters in every episode, making each one a standalone plot by itself. It ran for two seasons on Channel 4 before the show was made popular for its latter two seasons when it was purchased by Netflix. This dystopian series quickly became a hit through its focus on the controversial truths of modern society, as well as its…

Together, this trinity of unholy women embodies a bestial form that both seduces and terrifies the traveler — in his words, the attack was “Honey sweet… but with a bitter underlying the sweet.” (Stoker 69). While the vampires fulfill Jonathan’s physical yearning with their beautiful bodies, their tart presence signals to him the possibility of moral violation. These are the women who yield to the impulses that their moral and societal obligations would otherwise prohibit; the sexually tinged…

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night portrays the main character The Girl as lethal and scary, but as human in appearance and motive. She was a chador-wearing female vampire wandering in Bad City at night to stalk. Parallelly, she was also a pretty young girl wearing a striped shirt and putting on lipstick, preying on immoral men. She created her own destiny and shaped it with her decisions and actions. The life of The Girl and Arash, the male protagonist in the film, unfold in story tracking by…

an average adult. This cemetery has been in use since the beginning of Castle Dracula. It was extremely large and could cover a whole mountainside five times over. On the outside there was the human section. It was the cheeriest and most loving portion of the grave. Flowers covered the ground, and the grass was green. The tombstones were angel’s, crosses, and had holy water covering them to keep the ever famous Dracula Family from ‘drinking the blood of the…

A Demon in Disguise The first thing that comes to mind when people use the word ‘monster’ is usually a supernatural creature, such as a vampire or a werewolf. However, in The Odyssey, written by Homer and translated by Robert Fagles, Homer shows that humans can be monsters as well. Odysseus himself can be considered similar to a demon portrayed in the episode “Devil’s Trap” from the television series Supernatural. Directed by Kim Manners, the show relates the story of two brothers, Sam and…

One of the first Asian Masters of Horror, Japanese director Nobuo Nakagawa offered up numerous exceptional horror films in the late 1950s and early 60s with scores of important and legendary titles. After several tales offering variations of ghost tales, Nakagawa decided to go for a more existential tale of remorse and greed which scored him one of the biggest hits of his career and secured his reputation with a vengeance leading to who he is today. Trying to move on in life, Shiro Shimizu…

Although in Frankenstein Victor is purely the one to blame, in the story Dracula, Jonathan Harker is the character in which the reader feels immense pity for. Jonathan Harker had traveled to Transylvania to finish a real estate deal with Dracula and even though he felt strange about the whole encounter and Dracula himself, Jonathan blew it off because of his duty to his job. Then Jonathan becomes prisoner, once he escapes he gets extremely ill possibly because of the shock. But, the reason why…

How Did Gaiman Depict the Monsters in the Book? The Graveyard Book, written by Neil Gaiman, has many monsters in the book. The most prominent monsters are Bod, Night Gaunts, and Silas. Although these characters are likeable, they are considered monsters. Yet, they are all helpful and brave. Gaiman depicted monsters differently. He brought to life their humanity and gave them characteristics people could relate to. Most monsters have characteristics that are scary and frightening. Gaiman…

Twilight directed by Hadwicke is a movie about a girl named Bella who meets a vampire named Edward. She is thrown into a new environment and begins new discoveries. Her life would never be the same after she falls in love with a vampire. A simple movie with a simple concept. The underlying theme to movie is we should not live simple lives and we should reach for something more, something above normal. Showing maybe living forever and becoming a vampire isn’t what anyone really wants. In the…

the film is just an actor, Michael Rooker, pretending to be Henry Lee Lucas). (Carroll, 2003) So the monsters of horror cinema are depictions of monsters, representations of monsters. But what else are they, as a group? Perhaps nothing: after all, Dracula, Jaws, the Thing (both versions), Carrie, Chucky, Freddy…