The Vampire Lestat

"Our soldiers mixing with theirs entered the fortress and conquered the city which I set in fire". Facts,myths and legends about a long dead ruler come back to life by an Irish author named Bram Stoker in a new form but carries the same name Dracula a character placed in many good and bad films but many people in the United states don't know his real name but in Romania people know him as vlad the impaler. The terrifying legend of Vlad the impaler or more commonly known as Dracula. A man that…

So, why not use real blood in stage/film productions? Well, real blood coagulates (thickens/solidifies to a jelly-like state) in the presence of oxygen, which is not helpful in a performance if someone is supposed to be bleeding out. Blood also darkens during this process. So making fake blood turned out to be a more accessible, effective, and dramatic method of enabling blood effects in a scene. So, According to John Hess, from Filmmaker IQ, the most notable uses of fake blood began in Paris.…

In Dracula, Stoker presents a stark representation of women and attacks the “New Women”, through the voice of the main women characters, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray, later known as Mrs. Harker. In the Longman Cultural Edition of Dracula, the term “New Woman” is defined as a “single urban young woman, often working in a new clerical job; she smoked cigars and rode a bicycle and ventured, scandalously into the world on her own” (Blake, Dracula 413). Mina is the epitome of the idealized virtuous…

In conclusion, uncanny sides of London are visible in both novels. Both Levy and Stoker connect the uncanny to the "other." In Dracula, the uncanny "other" is represented by vampires whereas Levy's "others" are immigrants. Additionally, both novels are connected to the empire: Stoker writes during the Victorian period and is visibly influenced by the imperial mind-set; Levy writes in a post-imperial context as her text depicts an empire that is falling apart. The two novels depict the "other"…

Over the years many even senteries vampires have taken all kinds of different faces . they have changed from the terrifying examples of dracula or nosferatu. The have gone from bad to good or from bad to worse . but mostly bad to good . there are many examples of vampires throughout history. And a large part of our fears come from them. I will start by describing the early vampires. Back in the day they were terrifying and they were meant to be away from normal humans. They would terrorize…

"Near Dark" was at times a cringe-worthy vampire movie unlike any that people had seen at that time, and with her blood, and gore scenes her film is still making people cringe. Bigelow did not stop there, in fact, her next film is in my opinion, one of her best, and in 1991 she released "Point break"…

the second book in the Forbidden series. If you enjoy fast-paced, exciting adventure, witches and vampires, and a steamy love story, then pick up your copy of the latest in this paranormal series. A stubborn witch is forced to team up with an obstinate vampire in their quest to find the stolen Book of Spells that could destroy the witches. When Logan’s grandfather is brutally murdered by a rogue vampire he must find the killer before the stolen Book of Spells leads him to the Blood Stone,…

Vampires, first introduced in 1897 have traveled an extensive path into the modern world of 2015. A blood thirsty monster, avoiding garlic and sunlight, only being able to be killed by a wooden stake driven through the heart are all characteristics of the vampires found in 1897. Now a days vampire don’t burst in to flame at the touch of sunlight or have uncontrollable blood lust for human blood, but instead sparkle in the sun and “diet,” which entails that they feed on animals instead of humans…

existing in a constant threat of regression. These modern anxieties found fruitful soil in literary works that address monstrous characters. One such example is Dracula, written by Anglo-Irish novelist Bram Stoker. The supernatural Count Dracula, a vampire, covets female victims who he can sully with his degenerative blood, turning them into monstrous characters that…

Sarah-Alice was at the Eden hotel knowing how that she was about to go home for the day as she then walked down the hallway knowing how soon she would be able to clock out until she heard voices in the office with a few familiar names of Harley, Ivy, and other well known villains as she then was caught by a villain known as Joker as she struggled in his grip only to say,"Let me go! Let me go jerks!" She then struggled only to hear her boss say,"Well well the cat is out of the bag. Sarah-Alice…