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Dracula has been the basis for countless films and plays. Three of the most famous are Nosferatu (1922), Dracula (1931), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Nosferatu, a film directed by the German director F.W. Murnau, was produced while Stoker's widow was alive, and the filmmakers were forced to change the setting and the characters' names for copyright reasons. The vampire in Nosferatu is called Count Orlok rather than Count Dracula. Bram Stoker's Dracula, by Francis Ford Coppola, reimagines Count Dracula as a tragic figure instead of a monster.
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Despite his atrocities the real life Dracula was not a vampire. In fact he is remembered as something of a national hero in Romania and was honored by the communist regime with a postage stamp. However, Hungarian Countess Elisabeth Bathroy certainly enjoyed blood and the cruelty attached to its attainment. By her own writing she claims to have had 650 victims, mostly peasant servants. She reportedly would bite large pieces of their flesh, torture them further, and bathe in their blood.
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Count Dracula would then have these poles stood up by the side of the road. By-passers would see the type of punishment Dracula administered to his enemies or to those who did wrong. This act of impaling people earned him the name Vlad Tepes (Vlad The Impaler).
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While the character of Count Dracula stands as one of the most familiar names in the pantheon of horror or any other genre of literature, the equally recognisable name of Frankenstein must be one of most frequently misinterpreted. For many this moniker conjures a vision of a thuggish monstrosity, probably complete with bolts protruding from its neck. And yet, the truth is that Frankenstein is in fact the name of the man who created the monster, rather than the creature itself. As with ‘Dracula’, this story too has been often plundered by film-makers and just as loosely adapted. Fortunately there have still been several outstanding productions based on this seminal work, from James Whale’s enduring classic Frankenstein (1931) with Colin Clive in the title role and Boris Karloff as the monster, through to The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) with Cushing and Lee in the film that began Hammer’s vastly successful run of British horror movies that lasted right through until the early seventies. Probably best of all to my mind, although again not particularly true to the written word, was Frankenstein: The True Story (1973), an American made-for-television production with Leonard Whiting in the title role and a strong supporting cast that included James Mason, Ralph Richardson and Tom Baker.
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Tomb of Dracula was more than just your average vampire tale. The book weaved an ongoing soap opera around its lynchpin character, the titular vampire count, with players coming and going as the series progressed. Some left the series voluntarily; others had departure thrust upon them by tragic circumstances or plain old death. Less than a year after the title launched, writer Marv Wolfman created the series' most enduring character, Blade the Vampire Hunter (the same Blade who would go on to be portrayed on the silver screen by Wesley Snipes), whose debut and ongoing adventures are substantially chronicled in this oversized collection. Many of the Essential Marvel collections (which, by virtue of their low price point, are produced in black and white) lose their nostalgic luster when the originals are altered, but Tomb of Dracula stands as one of the classic few that survives the transition from four-color to black and white. Gene Colan's pencils, when inked by Tom Palmer, are still every bit as effective in telling a story as they were in full color.
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Bela Lugosi, who was so intimately tied to his role as Count Dracula that he was buried in his original cape, wasn't quite as faithful to the role that made his career. He only played the famous Count twice. Although Lugosi portrayed vampires in many films over his career, culminating with a final appearance in Ed Wood's Plan Nine from Outer Space, he only played the Count in Dracula and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. In The House of Frankenstein and The House of Dracula, actor John Carradine gratuitously played the Count. Although Carradine s portrayal made the legendary Count
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