Nosferatu

When filming and writing literature began to be popular there has always been an issue with women sexuality. Throughout the years, it has been proven women use their sexuality as a manipulated power to control men and women. In the sense of an alien and monster elements the sexuality encounter of uncontrollable creatures that show an inspiration of its own kind. In Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, women sexuality reflects a behavior in Victorian England. Women are betrayed which led them to a…

Does bram stokers Dracula meet the psychological needs to be classed as a good horror film? Critics say yes I say no. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and screenplay written by James v. Hart, Dracula is a fantasy movie about a vampire who comes to England and finds his lost true love then proceeds to wreak havoc on the foreign town. The movie, which has a 78% on rotten tomatoes and a 7.5/10 on Internet Movie DataBase or IMDB has also won 3 Oscars and 12 other movie awards in multiple other…

Do fans choose their "team" based on preference for vampires or for werewolves? What comments lead you to believe this? I think that they do not choose their team based on characters because they like some things to attract them. I saw many people watch movies to see what happened and love to watch. I thought that not dependent on based on preference for vampires or for werewolves What attributes of vampires and werewolves lead to this choice? Alternately, do fans choose their "team" based…

There are questions which have engaged human societies since the beginning of recorded history. One of the biggest myths is life itself, and, concomitantly, what happens with the body and soul after death. Various mythological creatures have served as attempts to answer the latter of the two problems. Almost every culture has its own kind of 'vampire', although most of them would not be recognized as such by modern readers. The origin of the vampire myth is ambiguous, but some scholars have…

There are many examples to prove that Werewolves are way better vampires. For example, did you know that once a werewolf reaches maturity, their aging stops and they enter a state of virtual immortality in which they are free from physical old age and have an infinite lifespan? To prove how I know that werewolves are way better than vampires is because, werewolves travel in packs, while vampires travel alone. They say that if you mess with a wolf, you'll get the pack. This means that if a…

One of the troubling facts of classical vampire mythology was that the vampire figure was intimately described as an evil symbol, which addressed the stereotypical gender ideals that females were almost always the victim; the classical figures of the vampire, thus, frequently employed to warn females in ancient society. Beliefs in the vampire dated back to the Roumanian periodical of peasant literature in the nineteenth century, with heavy concerning about the relation between body and soul…

Dracula and Once on This Island are two of many productions that have been put on by The Gainesville Theatre Alliance. The Gainesville Theatre Alliance is a widely known alliance between The University of North Georgia and Brenau University. During this year’s February festival taking place on February 9th through the 20th, the alliance produced the thrilling tale of Dracula and the inspirational musical of the love story of Once on This Island. The Gainesville Theatre Alliances stage adaption…

In the world of horror fiction, the “monster” the most overtly associated with sexuality and eroticism is the vampire. The blood-sucking exchange between the vampire and the victim is often presented as a type of stand-in for “traditional” sexual encounters, seeing as both create a bond or a unity between two individuals. The goal of this essay is to analyze, and in doing so compare, both Dracula and I Am Legend as two key works of fiction in the tradition of viewing the vampire through an…

Leave it to Jim Jarmusch, the director who gave film audiences the "psychedelic western," 1995's "Dead Man," and the gangster/samurai hybrid, "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai," to find a way to put his own unique stamp on that most trendy of cinematic monsters: the vampire. In "Only Lovers Left Alive," Jarmusch finds a way to shake off the recently accumulated residue of too many sparkly, lovesick bloodsuckers by recontextualizing the supernatural creatures as the ultimate hipsters. More than…

Similar to defiance of Social norms, Stoker uses Vampirism to expand on the traits of sexual needs within the New Woman. When Lucy is bitten by Dracula, she slowly begins to lose the identity of a Victorian Era Woman as her lustful desires slowly increase. Through her desperate need for blood from different contributors besides Arthur, the transfusion shows the secretive intimate connection she has with each of the suitors. By the time she is near death, Lucy had received blood from all the…