Nosferatu

Rabid is the David Cronenberg film that I've been craving lately after having been disappointed with Dead Ringers. The film is a 70s mishmash of vampires, zombies and biological disorder. It also has lead actress Marylin Chambers showing off her splendid boobies. In conjunction with releasing Dead Ringers on Blu-ray, Scream Factory has also released Rabid in a Collector's Edition Blu-ray package with a substantial amount of special features and a damn fine transfer. Read on to see if you should…

Dracula was a novel written in 1897 by an Irishman by the name of Bram Stoker. Dracula is a gothic horror story based in the Victorian times. The story was about an evil vampire and some of the many people he tormented. Count Dracula had killed many innocents for many years before he targeted Jonathan Harker, who was completely oblivious to the dangers the supernatural could bring at the beginning of the story. Jonathan’s business trip to Transylvania sets the story in motion, and he remains a…

Mina experiences a similar double bind but unlike Eustacia, she manages to find a balance between domesticity and the working capabilities of the New Woman. She is first introduced through the eyes of Jonathan Harker, he collects recipes for her, is aware of the pain his “burning desire” for the female vampires would cause and considers her a woman who has “naught in common [with those] devils of the Pit!” (Dracula 48). Harker’s epitome of Mina is challenged by the Mina revealed in her letters…

Purity and Danger: Dracula, the Urban Gothic, and the Late Victorian Degeneracy Crisis by Kathleen L. Spencer- Formative Assignment In ‘Purity and Danger: Dracula, the Urban Gothic, and the Late Victorian Degeneracy Crisis’, Spencer posits that the Dracula’s evil lies in his otherness, revealing the Victorian anxiety that the British Empire might be overthrown by foreign powers. She notes that “in such a society, the universe is dualistic; what is inside is good, what is outside is bad” , and…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula was written in 1897. The year of 1897 was during the woman's dilemma. During this time, women were beginning to become more independent and more open about their sexuality. This was a time period where independent and “New Women” were feared by men. A True Woman is often seen as devoted to their husband, pure, and always very modest. The New Woman was evolving in this time and often was independent, unmarried, and often seen as a flirt or as very seductive. Mina Murray,…

Wafer: In Dracula the Wafer, also known as the holy cookie of the church represents a safety cushion for the group. When Van Helsing takes Quincy, Seward, and Arthur go to Lucy’s Grave they notice its empty and in order to keep her from reentering he decides to place the chunks of Wafers into the coffin in order for her to not reenter. Here Van Helsing uses the wafer for the first time in the novel, and it shows a weakness Vampires have towards materials of Church, since Lucy could not get…

guez-Rivera English 100A Professor Dianna Lobb November 27th, 2014 Mina Murray’s Progression From Dracula to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Written in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a social commentary on the idea of the new woman and her role in society in Victorian era. The novels main female character is Mina Harker, a young lady whose personality is a combination of all the characteristics that Bram Stoker believed the ideal woman should have; she is courageous, caring, intelligent,…

One of the greatest horror stories is constantly adapted into a tragic love story to validate the evil characters deeds. Dracula was published in 1897 by Bram Stoker and was about a group of Victorian men and a woman who try to defeat a vampire known as Dracula. It is a simple horror story in the sense it only follows the ‘heroes’ of the novel, the reader gets no perspective of Dracula. Mina Harker, the only female to survive the novel, is seen as a diligent middle class Victorian woman. She is…

The three vampire sisters are the least of all the known characters but they play a significant role in the fight against foreign intrusion. Much debate has gone on about how the three sisters relate to Dracula, mainly the debate has fallen under two categories. One being they are the brides of the vampire or the most likely choice that they are his offspring. If true that indeed they possess the genes from Dracula than their killings was very important. Evidence comes in when Harker in his…

For our soundtrack project, we chose to do Dracula because we were fascinated by the numerous motifs and themes that Stoker exemplified in his dramatic novel. For our first song-to-quote connection, we looked at the motif of sex and love; this motif appeared in many forms. We thought that the love shared between Mina and Jonathan was, ultimately, the strongest. Jonathan’s devotion to his wife is revealed when he noted, “There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the…