Nightmare! The Birth of Victorian Horror: Dracula (Full programme, feat. Eileen Daly)
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Professor Christopher Frayling explores the origins of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and travels in the footsteps of the novel's hero, Jonathan Harker, across Europe to Castle Dracula. Frayling also critiques the interpretations of Stoker's tale. 1996
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This is fantastic. Not just a background of Dracula but an exploration of Stoker's process as a writer. A chill feeling of suspense...
This is the most comprehensive documentary I've seen on the materials used to create the novel "Dracula".
Hi Eileen. I have the book of this series, it's absolutely fascinating. Christopher Frayling is both scholarly and witty!
I have to agree with one or two of the other comments in that its strange he didn't mention Carmilla...one of the first vampire stories and also written by an irishman...undoubtedly an influence but hey ho...still interesting nonetheless...I don't know what it is but there is something about the Max Shreck Nosferatu vampire that I have always found genuinely disturbing...of all the other draculas on film I have seen, from the Hammers to the francis ford coppela version, never seen one I really found terrifying...or really even mildly frightening...probably due to over saturation of the image...but there is something about that version, the way he looks, moves and the way the film is shot that is quite unsettling...and yet its so simple! I almost do believe the premise of that film shadow if a vampire, that they really did find a genuine vampire in Shreck and placed him on the screen!
Very interesting, thanks for uploading this! Victorian Horror has fascinated me ever since I saw the film adaptations of Dracula and read the novel.
very intreresting. for a novel that is so detailed, i'm not surprised it took many years of research. j.
Excellent documentary for anyone interested in Dracula.
Great additional info for my Gothic literature essay on Dracula! Thanks for uploading! :)
Glad to see they used the B.B.C version starring Louis Jordan.
+Alba Productions Kudos. But Mr. Jordan is not Dracula!
+Alba Productions Kudos. But Mr. Jordan is not Dracula!
Tim Lies I know he is an actor playing Dracula, damn fine performance too.
great program. Thank you
This book got me into gothic
Enjoyable, but also strangely askew in details. There is no "Eastern European" vampire in VARNEY for example, and it ignores CARMILLA which almost certainly influenced Stoker.
+David MacDowell Blue Dr. John Polidori's The Vampyre (written some time between 1816 and 1821) would possibly have been more of an influence on Stoker, as his was the first aristocratic male vampire. I've watched many scholarly documentaries on Stoker and the writing of Dracula; none of them have ever mentioned Carmilla influencing Stoker. It's not impossible; Stoker and Le Fanu were born in the same city, Stoker became the theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, co-owned by Le Fanu. But Stoker's notes for Dracula are quite extensive, and still available for scholars to view; there are no references to Carmilla. Christopher Frayling cannot speculate about what 'might' have influenced Stoker in a 50 minute documentary; he has to stick to the known facts.
Vermillion 303 - Given the sheer number of tropes that originated with "Carmilla" then found their way into "Dracula" it seems virtually certain Stoker had read it. Granted, there is no direct evidence.
+David MacDowell Blue A bit of research shows that although Stoker and Le Fanu worked at the Dublin Evening echo at the same time, Carmilla had not been published at this point, indeed, Carmilla wasn't published until after Le Fanu's death in 1872. Bram Stoker's Dracula came 26 years later.
What's your point? I'm not saying they collaborated. I'm not claiming they ever met. I merely posit, given the fresh vampire tropes (such as a 'professional' vampire hunter, the POV of the victim, the bite experienced as a semi-erotic dream, etc.) in "Carmilla" that it seems highly likely Stoker read the thing at some point, given those same tropes ended up in "Dracula." Your argument only makes sense if "Carmilla" were published *after* "Dracula."
David MacDowell Blue It was just a bit of background detail. Stop being argumentative.
Yes we do but youTube won't let us put it up!
Vey informative as I was under the mistaken impression that Varney the Vampire was the other creature of horror a product of Lord Byron's challenge. What was created by Lord Byron and expanded by Dr. Polidori belongs among the fearsome fiends faced by Abbott & Costello-yes, I did say "fearsome fiends faced". Although one fiend only had a voice-the Invisible Man.
Three of the four Frayling documentaries are fairly easy to find online. The one concerning Frankenstein is weirdly absent. Did Universal lay the lawyer pain down on anyone posting it, or is it merely lost?
As would any proper fan of the horror genre (and the vampire in particular), I have seen Murnau's Nosferatu. I look at it as more of an allegorical tale masked with frightful images as in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. I wonder what early German cinema would be like if its patrons had had no knowledge of the writings of Dr. Sigmund Freud. Would they understand the symbolism in the film enough to enjoy it?
Thanks for this. I've uploaded two more from this series. Do you have the fourth, about Frankenstein?
I'm English on my father's side and Romanian on my mother's side. I've visited my relatives in England as well as those who still live in Bucharest. I truly cannot understand the fascination with this tale (or myriad horror films it has inspired over the decades). I used to think that the chief reasons behind the popularity of this tale is because we are all afraid of death, and, that we all want to live forever. The real blood-suckers are those career politicians who are drawing the life out of my two beloved lands : America and England.
Actually Vlad was not Vlad IV, but Vlad III.
Hi Eileen, not seen you in years, but wish you the best ! Here in Hungary, where I live, old country people do not joke about vampyr. My copies of "The Graphic" and "Illustrated London News" for 1897 confirm that "Dracula" got pretty lousy reviews on its publication. It was considered a good blood and thunder thriller, nothing more ! As Frayling says, it is Cinema that has made it the most successful book since the Bible.
Would love to have the book to this series, what is the name of the book. Is it Nightmare: Birth Of Horror, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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I cannot find out anywhere where Christopher Lee is buried. Does anyone know?
So as one of the BRIDES OF DRACULA Eileen again plays a vampire babe.
Dracula had two central heroes: Professor Van Helsing and Mina Harker-everything else is just revisionist history in the worst sense of that term-making s**t up.