Halloween Special: Dracula

my teacher is Romanian, and one time when we asked her how old she was, she responded, “I’m from the land of Count Dracula, we keep ourselves young”. With a creepy smile g r e a t

I saw a post that said; “Describing the actual plot of Dracula to someone sounds like lying about the plot of Dracula. Dracula gets stabbed to dead by a cowboy”

Red in 2016: "That summary was half an hour long. That's obviously not happening." Red in 2021: "Here's half an hour summarizing werewolf mythos!" Character development!

My favorite line from the book: "Let us hope that the strength of four good men is equal to one malevolence of the devil" - Everyone's favorite quirky dutch doctor, Abraham Van Helsing

When i read Dracula, I literally laughed out loud and had to put the book down for a minute when Jonathan whacks him in the face with a shovel.

3:30 To anyone who's curious, the old lady with the cross is saying 'You're too young for death you poor idiot.'

I feel like one of the things I've found most disappointing that's been lost in adaptation is how genuinely in love Jonathan and Mina are. Jonathan wants to tell Mina everything but is basically gaslit into thinking he shouldn't, as soon as Mina is attacked he chases Dracula with a Kukri, tells Mina everything, assures her that nothing could change his love for her, and privately admits that if she's stuck as a vampire, than he'll turn too so she won't have to suffer alone. Meanwhile Mina sees how traumatized Jonathan has been and immediately goes into "destroy the fucker that hurt my husband" mode. Like, all those adaptations that have Jonathan leaving Mina for what happened, or shipping Mina with Dracula are missing out on so much with this absolute ride or die "will walk into hell for you" couple.

Dracula's solicitor's wife's best friend's former suitor's mentor just happens to be an expert on vampires!

My favorite WTF vampire weakness (introduced in later interpretations) was that if someone spilled a bag of small objects (usually seeds or stones) they would be forced to stop whatever they were doing and count everything that was spilled. This explains everything about The Count from Sesame Street.

“The mom throws out the garlic flowers and opens the windows” Ah just like those AskReddit stories of family members completely ignoring Doctor’s orders

Love how all the men are saying “oh, a woman shouldn’t hear this-“ And then John’s just: no mortal should see what i have seen

One thing that always bothers me about Dracula is how they make Harker either really boring or an asshole to Mina. When he is constantly supportive of her, talks endlessly about how much he adores her and is willing to face damnation and become a vampire so she doesn't have to face it alone. Sure he still has victorian attitudes about stuff, but he's really quite progressive for his time.

Red: "That summary was half an hour long. Needless to say, that ain't happening" Red, but two years later: makes a half hour long video on Lovecraft Character development!

That Van Helsing serious face has to be one of the funniest gags you’ve ever had.

this was literally the world´s first "found footage horror"

Someone needs to adapt Dracula into a road-trip/buddy comedy focused on the dude squad who only know each other because they all thought this one girl was hot and now have to kill a vampire Edit: It is also important that Van Helsing and Dracula are played completely serious the entire time with a healthy dose of Victorian dramatics

Theres a part where Mina says, and I quote, "I am the train fiend." Because she has committed all the train schedules to memory. Where's my modern au where Mina has a model train set in her basement?

The things that struck me when reading Dracula for the first time: * The amount of detail (and perfect grammar) that everyone puts in their letters and journals, even when facing imminent death. * How often people are absolutely horrified and repulsed by sexiness. * How much people go out of their way to say how amazing Mina is.

I'm now super offended we never see a crazy Texan with a bowie knife killing vampires in any of the movie adaptations. Seriously I've never seen Quincy appear in any adaptation?

Shame that Quincy gets left out so much, you'd think more action oriented works would want to include the guy who managed to hold off Dracula with nothing but a bowie knife, but apparently not.