The number of times Mina and Lucy get switched, or one of them turns out to be the reincarnation of Dracula’s dead wife (or the number of derivatives that are based on the insipid Hamilton Deane/John Balderstone theatrical rewrite instead of the actual book) is going to drive me to an early grave (only me, no one else cares). Dracula is everything.Īnd I love Dracula movies, though very rarely does an adaptation emulate the novel and deliver a satisfactory retelling ( there are complicated reasons for why this has been the case). But I love Dracula-the novel, its legacy, all of it. Salem’s Lot would have traumatized me, if I had known what it was. I didn’t spend my teen years tuning into The Vampire Diaries and I was too young to grow up with Buffy. I was not an especially enormous fan of Twilight or True Blood. Now, I’m not one of those people who loves vampires, generally.
It’s October and therefore a fine month to reflect on Dracula but also… I love Dracula in all seasons. But Dracula, the vampire, is also one of the most iconic roles that any performer can take on, and so today, we’re going to rank the top fifty most iconic performances of the character. They’ve taken the form of plays, films, comics, and other pieces of art. There have been hundreds of Dracula adaptations since the first one-a play, adapted by Stoker himself, that had a reading eight days before the release of his novel on May 26th, 1897. The real immortality of the ancient vampire Dracula, the villain of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel of the same name, resides less in the difficulty of killing him and more in how, once you kill him, he doesn’t stay dead for long before springing up-robust, red-blooded, and thirsty-in another new version of the story.
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