It's pretty crazy that there is an adaptation of "Dracula" that only covers one chapter of the novel. That said, this type of adaptation is actually not at all a bad idea as long as the selected chapter is fascinating enough to work alone. For example, I've always thought that a movie based on the novel "Let the Right One In" that only adapts the flashbacks showing Eli/Elias being taken with the other children to the castle and turned into a vampire would be a really fascinating prequel!
@user-ye4bu6xh4c I never understood why so many controversy about Eli's nature. Even the author himself stated he's a male eunoch who adopted a female appearance to make people feel sorry for him. I do not find any reason to cause controversy with Eli's gender, as he cannot be considered a LGBT icon /Sjw propaganda AT ALL
Dude, the monster verse that never really came to. The mummy, Dracula an a bunch of other movie monsters were to exist together. Even can helsing was supposed to be a part of it can helsing?
Do you realize that movie execs now are so shit at their jobs that they will literally crowdsource movie ideas from this sort of information? In a few years when this movie you just invented the idea for comes out, we're all going to meet back here at this comment section and talk about how horrible hollywood is.
In Dracula, vampires aren't harmed by sunlight. Dracula could actually walk around in broad daylight with no effect except that he was slightly weakened. The whole concept of vampires being destroyed by sunlight was invented by the film Nosferatu, and might have been a misunderstanding of the sun rising just as the creature died (Correlation Causation Confusion).
I have a feeling similar goes for Superman. I always wondered about how the old school cartoon/radio show simplified his powers. "Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound/bounce." I feel like maybe Supes *originally* was drawn leaping. A character, with one leg extended, other knee up, one arm tucked, other arm extended and streaks running from him to the ground... Superman probably never actually flew. He might have just been jumping same as Hulk does.
This makes a lot more sense. I loved this movie but I kept wondering why Anna didnt just tell them the crate Dracula slept in, that way they could open it up in broad daylight and then toss him overboard. I didn't know that in the original cannon this wouldn't have worked regardless
Dracula could only walk in the sunlight under certain circumstances/times of the day that too when he had gorged in the blood of the living, possibly because he was so old or the original. The book explained so ... others however, being younger or having a weaker bloodline could not bear the sun
Weak story , Dracula looked great but it had poor casting , even diversity casting .. the screen play didn’t really get you hooked , more could have been done
@PoldarkGodzilla speak for yourself buddy you just have bad taste this was probably the best dracula movie and depiction of dracula on screen not some pretty boy with long flowing hair that gets one tapped or bodied by blonde bombshells and Liu kang look alikes and weak asss Scooby-Doo gangs he is ruthless and actually shows why and how he got the name dracula by showing his true nature and what truly being a vampire is..and the casting and the writing for the movie Is great! Everyone played there role well in this movie you don't ever need to be a director or judge any movie again with an opinion like that pal..on a movie like this..lol go touch some grass or sumthen friend..💯👌
Absolutely this is the scariest Dracula version. This character has been abused and so many versions have been conceived. However the last voyage of the Demeter shows the most evil and scary Dracula I've ever seen. This Dracula is an intelligent experienced yet wild animal craving for his fill. He won't stop at anything and one by one he extinguished the Demeter's crew. It makes you wonder what is he going to do in England. Great movie!!
I'm reading the book again for Halloween. Do a different one every year, (Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, etc). Right about the time the Demeter crashes, ole Johnny boy is getting tortured, fed on and SA'd by the Brides. Laughed at for trying to escape by the Count's gypsy familiars and almost going crazy. Poor Johnathan.
Dude I was thinking the same thing. Like the whole time the movie was playing I was thinking "what's Johnathan doing at that particular moment, or Lucy n mina, Dr Seward...?"
Really enjoy this depiction of Dracula, as he is essentially a human mimic type monster. He is not a man that hides a monster, he is a monster that hides in the guise of a man. When he is in a setting where he does not need to play any games, where his human mimicry serves no purpose, what is left is just the monster.
One thing that scared the soul out of me of this itineration of the character was the fact that he could perfectly speak but decided not to, why? Because he sees the crew as food and you don't talk with your food. That level of cold blood is terrifying
The irony about the Dracula novel by Bram Stroker is that it was written as individual pieces (think in terms of comics but for books) and then collected into one huge omnibus. The idea of a series of movies adapting the novel or even a mini-series with the budget of Game of Thrones isn’t too insane to do. In fact, I would argue Dracula is better for television, not theatrical (although it would be cool).
They tried this already a few years ago with a tv series starring Jonathan Rhys myers as Dracula it only got one season I think. Netflix did a Dracula adaption recently as well which was quiet good
Dracula was not written as individual pieces, though? Perhaps you're mistaking it for a serialized novel, like some of Charles Dickens works? But even those are not individual pieces later collected into an omnibus. They are unified novels that are simply released to the public one chapter at a time. Dracula was "serialized" in some American newspapers in 1899, but it had already been published as a complete novel prior to that. Dracula is an epistolary novel, meaning it's presented as a collection of letters between the characters, but the letters were never meant to be taken individually. I think you might be mistaking Dracula for some other novel?
This movie is really underrated, saw it in a theatre with 2 other people, but I enjoyed the film non the less. Felt a bit like “Alien” only on a ship with Dracula himself, I loved it 😂
the CGI looks so cheap... really disappointing. And the whole plot is so weird. I mean where is the surprise? and why do all people on the ship act so stupid? Why didnt they search everything after the animals died? Why didnt they stick together after Anna told the story that a monster is on board? what an awfull, cheap movie. 10:20 and finally they get worried.. after all that stuff happened. Nobody is akting like that in the real world. 13:58 also their god damn WOODEN ship is burning!! And they just stand there and watch? 19:00 and of course.. the first USEFULL thing someone does in this movie, was obviously a women. Cause all men are god damn stupid in this movie. Go girl, slayy. 19:30 and even if it sinks... god damn he has WINGS !!!!! HE CAN FLY !!!! who ever made this movie, should never touch a camera again. everyone who likes this should really question his mentality.
In Romanian Dracul is "the devil", dragon is spelled exactly the same but pronounced differently. Let me quickly explain why Vlad Țepeș's father was known as Vlad Dracul. He was initiated into a organization called Ordinul Dragonului, or "the order of the dragon", which used a dragon as its emblem. The latin (not Romanian) for dragon is Draco. The name simply adds the Romanian suffix for the article "the". As far as I could find Dracula is simply an English invention and resulted from a misunderstanding of historical source material. If you tried to use that word in Romanian it wouldn't make any sense. If you know any Romanian last names you might recognize a lot of them end with "escu". This is the suffix for "son of" in archaic Romanian. These is also a feminine version with "ea" that is much more rare, so you could with a stretch say it means daughter of the devil is you spelled it Draculea... But even that would not be recognizable in modern Romanian. Not to be overly critical. I just hate it when people are misled about what something means in a language I speak.
It’s the Captain’s grandson, not his son. Dracula spoke throughout the film. For me this is one of the best Vampire movies I’ve ever seen. I hope there will be a sequel.
Sadly, no. It bombed at the box office. It is also based on a chapter in a book. I would have loved to have seen this iteration of the character in a miniseries based on the entire book.
@@palefacejackthere is definitely a cult following for this movie & movies like it A lot of movies bomb in the theatre then turn out to be cult classics The movie was brilliant and anybody interested in Dracula would love a sequel It may not be in the theaters, but that’s fine straight to hulu or Netflix will be fine
maybe as dracula feeds he regains more of his strength and power with each bit of blood he consumes. that would explain the changes as he killed each victim. it is almost like he was starving himself on purpose just so he could better enjoy the hunt and taste of his food :P
It is explained in the movie (albeit poorly) that he was feeding on the girl and rationing. He was intentionally starved. Once she was "saved" he wasn't able to feed for a couple of nights. So with each kill he is regaining his strength. That's why he becomes more and more lethal with each kill.
I would think starving himself would have a different purpose. My guess would be that it was out of necessity to be able to be transported to the ship. It would've taken a good amount of time to travel most of the way across Europe by horse drawn cart. If he was to be feeding on people the entire trip, it's unlikely that anyone would continue transporting the crate. Once he's on the ship, he doesn't have a need to continue starving himself.
I was disappointed with the ending look of dracula. I think it would've been more terrifying to the main character when he sees dracula as a man instead as what he saw on the ship. The scary realization that this creature can blend in with other humans would be another factor as why hes more determined to hunt it would've been great.
It would have been even better if it was a book-accurate tall thin man with long black hair, a moustache and a pointed beard with a white streak through it. I know folks are gonna jump down my throat with "But he was an old man with a moustache!" Yes. Only at the beginning and end of the novel. During his time in London he looked more like a stereotypical moustache-twirling villain.
@@filthycasual8187In the chapter "The Captains Log" that this movie is inspired by, the crew describe a tall thin man, but I'm not sure if the crew actually gave other details to the captain to write down. Especially if they were all going missing one by one, this Dracula has no reason to act as a man
@@chshirerat5487 If you'd read the comment I was responding to and apply context, you'd understand I was referring SPECIFICALLY to his look at the end of the movie when he's in London. I was fine with his appearance while on the Demeter, I thought it was a good look.
The two knocks are also the sound of the heartbeat. As the film progresses the knocks get more frequent and erratic as the crew call for help, subliminally hyping us (the audience) up with the increased pace of the films heartbeat.
I love horror movies, but I don't get scared or creeped out too often, but this one had a moment that gave me chills. The moment Dracula echoes the guys "please, no." That just creeped me tf out! I imagined being absolutely TERRIFIED for your life and pleading helplessly as your last hope only to be mocked by this creature that not only sees you as food, but finds your cries entertaining😳😳 that gets me every time. I've gotten tired of the standard vampire and zombie movies, but I really liked this one. Loved the design as well and that he wasn't just a human who is Dracula, he's a real monster.
I liked this movie as a whole. I'm a little disappointed that Dracula's final form at the end of the movie wasn't more traditional (i.e. human-like) but that shot where he's walking into the English fog in that alleyway kinda evoked a bit of Jack the Ripper I think, which is perfect for Dracula when he's on the hunt in London.
I feel like the ending was a letdown because dracula was TOO human. Throughout the movie he was very beastial, and couldn't have possibly been mistaken for human, but there he is enjoying himself in a bar.... If they leaned into something more jack the ripper-like with Clemens seeing him in an alleyway attacking a prostitute, it would have made more sense....(and I like the idea of Clemens following rumors of jack the ripper knowing it was dracula, but that could be overstepping).
I think the whole point was that he's supposed to be more unnatural in this design, even his most human form by the end was still nosferatu-esque simply hidden by heavy clothing in London where people already have a general sense of unsociability and poverty at the time. Possibly also the pollution of the time probably means Dracula can go out in daylight if he must. Pretty sure now that I think about it that daylight wasn't a factor in the books, we actually do see him walk around in daylight when he's reached London right?
I loved this movie. Best Dracula/vampire movie since Bram Stroker's 1990s film. I love how they show how Dracula becomes more human-like as he progressively feeds on more humans. Not sure if that was intentional or not but worked great.
This is actually a fangtastic idea for a movie. Taking a piece of the novel instead of the full story is a bit easier to consume in film form. There's so much detail that gets lost and can't be explored. Really excited to see more from this franchise. Absolutely awesome breakdown. 👌
‼️Idk why we have to keep treading the same vampire stories set in the same places over and over again. Give me vampires in Edo Japan fighting samurai or Vikings vs vampires. They are ancient so surely they would have clashed with histories best warriors at some point! Vampires vs ancient Rome, vampires in Sparta! At least this was set on the ship which was different. But I just really want to see a samurai slicing a vampire who is regenerating at the same time. So the samurai would have to be faster and faster. Anyway I just want historical warriors fighting mythical creatures. That movie Viking wolf that came out recently made me so mad! It was set in modern times but in the very beginning told of how a Viking was bit by a wolf on a raid and when the Viking ships returned the ships were empty except for a wolf. Then they flashed to modern times!!!! I don't want to see that! Give me the Viking vs werewolf movie!!! I'm so mad they just glossed right over that in favor of a done to death kid is bitten and family has to decide what to do plot line 🙄
@@Theendman42 Eh, they removed the perceived final heroic deed of the captain when he tied himself in the ship's wheel with a cross. All in favor of the black man being the last survivor. I notice he is also the doctor (who now knows some ways to kill the vampire), so there's a big possibility that this Clemence guy replaces Doctor Van Helsing and f up the source material. Good thing it bombed.
@@paulievespucci6867you had to specify your problem was a black man who was the only survivor and could possibly replace Van Helsing. Therefore good thing it bombed? Says alot about you lol
A possibility that he replaces Van Helsing? How? Van Helsing wasn't even on the boat in the book. Van Helsing doesn't even appear in the novel until after the boat arrives, Dracula moves into the Abbey, and members of the white aristocracy start getting mysteriously anemic. The book doesn't tell us about anything that happened onboard the Demeter, it just has the ship blow into port full of corpses and boxes of dirt. The film makers took a blank in the book and filled it with their own imaginings, as Bram Stoker left us to do. No one's infringing on Van Helsing in any way. Your racism is causing you to be irrationally paranoid.
Saw this last night. Not only frightening but disturbing. Something about this Dracula really unsettled me. He was so removed from the human being he must've been before he became a vampire. Nothing demonstrates this point so well as when he repeats his victims last words. This is an "echo" of the humanity he lost so many years ago. But it's also a reminder and a warning to us. What he has become, we too can become. The seeds of ultimate evil are there in us. The "echo" can not exist without the one who first speaks it. Dracula fans - if you're looking for Bela Lugosi, you won't find him here. Instead expect a feral, truly monstrous distortion of humanity. Two thumbs up.
I think that's a true representation of how a vampire would evolve ... especially Dracula, because of his long years just feeding and sleeping. He wouldn't become more human even though he's feeding regularly on humans, I think he would degenerate further into a more animalistic primal state.
Watched this with my pa last night . When he says "please no" mocking that dude was so creepy and when he says "you will" in response to "i dont fear you " great movie and creepy take on Dracula
Another underrated adaptation of Bram Stoker's book is the 1970 Spanish film "Count Dracula", directed by Jesús Franco. That film stands out for being the adaptation that most faithfully tries to adapt the novel, being more faithful than even Coppola's film. Furthermore, Dracula (who appears as the old mustachioed man that the novel describes) is played here by none other than Christopher Lee, who at the time was still acting as the Count for the Hammer films. Lee was already fed up with those movies due to their absolute lack of respect to the novel's themes, so he did not hesitate to participate enthusiastically in that faithful adaptation. The cast also includes the insane Klaus Kinski as a mute Renfield (my favorite portrayal of the character) and Herbert Lom as Van Helsing. The movie is not a masterpiece at all, especially because of its low budget, but it definitely deserves to be watched by every single Dracula fan!
I'd say that the 70s BBC TV adaptation is the most faithful. That's its strength, and also its weakness. There's so much of the novel that is actually rather dull and rightly left out of filmed versions.
The Dracula shown in the movie is a blood thirsty savage creature, but the post credit scene shows him being a high intelligent creature that can act like human (Probably can talk too). I think if there will be a sequel, the vibe will be quite different from the first one.
Same. They found the box… then it’s never mentioned again. The girl goes from half dead, scared for her life, to girl boss ready to fight, which was weird.
I liked the movie right up to the end where not only does the Captain not get tied to the wheel with the rosary so that his body could be found {this was a particularly brave act in the book) but the doctor makes out alive and unharmed where it is implied that he will start hunting Dracula. I would have accepted the ending more if the doctor had ended up in a medical facility of some sort with a visitor we only see from the back talking with him about his experience assuring him that his account will be kept in the strictest confidence thus assuring him of his personal safety. When the man gets up we see it is Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing. This would bridge this movie and rest of the story quite nicely considering the ships doctor is he who was never mentioned in Dracula at all.
@@TheLastKentuckyIrregular9524 I don't know how they could have. His name was already established and it wasn't Van Helsing. Van Helsing is also called in by Dr. Seward as his personal friend and mentor and an expert in not only medicine but in the occult. He already knew what Dracula was and what he was capable of. He knew how to help Lucy and it bought Lucy at least a few days. The Demeter's doctor did not. I accept they took a few liberties in order to make a few paragraphs into a full movie and I again stress I did like the film except the ending which does not work with the rest of the established narrative. Had they not left out the Captain's noble sacrifice and made it either apparent Dracula finished the job on the doctor or made it so he passes the torch on to the folks who actually kill him I would have liked the ending too.
This whole passage of the book was inspired by a real life ship crash. The real ship was called The Demitri and was sailing from Narva. It crashed into Whitby harbour in a terrible storm x
In the real life story of the Dmitri, when the ship crashed at the dock, the witnesses notice the crew were dead and a verge abnormally large wolf/dog like creature ran off the ship.
@@ramonantoniodejuanbennett6239 The crew abandoned ship and survived, it's well documented in the records. There are rumours of a large dog though I don't know how true they are as a dog wouldn't be much use on a ship x
I’m not a Dracula fan but as a vampire lover I do want to see more evil, creepy, dark or “demonic” interpretations of vampires instead of the romanticized urban fantasies that has been accepted in recent years.
@@Gemini053finally someone else agrees with me when I say I think draculas a bit overrated. I think the main reason I think that is because Brahms book is considered the “first vampire book” when in actuality that’s not true. Kinda annoying to see brahm get all the attention for a thing he didn’t really invent and that’s probably why I dislike Dracula.
@@Gemini053Honestly I feel the same. I've been reading the fan base of vampire diaries and Buffy and twilight calling vampires p*dos and r*pists because they fall for younger people. I'm like "they don't fkn care, they are meant to be monsters"
@@Mushess The 1th was in 1800 'Wake not the Dead' by Johann Ludwig Tieck after that, 19 others were published until 1897 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker. Another one famous was 'The Vampyre; A Tale' in 1819 by Dr John Polidori, and wrote it at the same time as Mary Shelley wrote Dr Frankstein, when they were staying in the same house with Lord Byron and her husband, writing as a contest. You can know all about it in 'The Vampire Encyclopedia'.
Yes! When I saw this in theaters I really liked how this movie showed weak form Dracula to his final form, even though I didn’t read the books I was wondering what would my favorite Vampire channel think about this 2023 Dracula film. Love your content and I hope you come up with more. I’ll see you in the shadows my friend 😎
21:42 so apparently the whole film was done practically but then the studio decided they didn’t like it so they brought in CGI to do over the practical effects which I’ve heard lists say was a massive mistake and I think they were probably right, I mean CGI has its place when it’s done will but for some projects you can’t beat a good practical effect it’s why they are still been used all these years after the invention of CGI.
I saw this movie twice and I absolutely loved it. I like vampires like this. Vampires that are straight to business, ugly and grotesque looking because they’re the undead and not some beautiful looking vampire that we lust after. I never understood why they didn’t just torch the ship during the day while they all got on life boats. After they all saw Dracula in the room with Toby, the next day during the day, I would have set the ship on fire. I would figure this creature only comes out at night, so during the day you are safe. I would just take my chances with the ocean. But yes, a very solid movie indeed. Does anyone else have any other good vampire movie suggestions? I’ve seen all underworld movies, lost boys, van helsing, and fright night. Oh, and blood red sky is good as well.
He would probably survive that, Dracula seem to need a close and personal death in most adaptations. The strain seems to indicate that you need a very powerful blast to get rid of a high tier vampire.
I haven't seen it in over a decade, and i know it didn't perform well, but i remember enjoying the german Vampire movie 'Wir sind die Nacht'. Best way i can describe it is Lost Boys meets The Craft
@@youngmoses777 Yeah, Until Dawn's depiction of the wendigo is a relatively accurate representation of how the wendigo is described in native American folklore, a lanky corpselike human with pale skin. It is also Dracula's tendency to mimic voices that caught my attention, as that's also a pretty common part of the lore.
I wonder if Universal even thought that they could use this movie as the continuation of Untold. It could show the extreme difference between young, newly turned, hopeful Vlad and the unrecognizable monster he had become by the time of the events of the novel. It could've given some character development, some motivations as to why Vlad became so animalistic and inhuman in the novel. Maybe he's been trying to limit his blood intake thus being ravenous on the Demeter. Maybe seeing Mina's picture that John Harker had, awoke something in him and now he's doing all he can to get to her. After Demeter they could do Dracula proper and then segue into what was teased at the end of Untold. Vlad meeting the modern incarnation of Mina, his wife's soul reborn, and having to battle it out with the Master Vampire after regaining some of his humanity through the centuries of searching out and losing his beloved. They could have had at least 4 or 5 movies easy.
I wish untold was more successful, but I don’t think that would be a good idea. Hopefully this film did well enough to really give is more opportunity to see Dracula as he’s supposed to be… a horrifying monster.
@@classicghostrider2715 Thing is that even "horrifying monsters", the Strigoi and Nosferatu that Bram Stoker based Dracula on, started out as normal people. By either sin, improper burial, a turn of bad luck like a cat jumping over their casket or via witchcraft they became those monsters. I could see a parallel in actual humanity with the concept of power and it's corrupting influence over time. Untold Vlad started out trying to save his people, his family, his Kingdom. He tried to resist the forbidden aspect of the Master's "gift" to him, until he no choice and was forced to drink to save his son as his wife was already dead. Now centuries later after outliving all his loved ones, everyone he knew, he's just given up letting the power corrupt him, but it took that first step. As for literary Dracula, he's far from stupid in the book, which they seemed to forget in the Demeter movie, and though sometimes animalistic and monsterous, he plans his trip to England, purchasing several spots to house his Transylvanian earth besides just Carfax Abby. He even asks Johnathan if it's acceptable in business dealings to engage more than one solicitor to take care of separate multiple tasks, which he does. When they showed Dracula in Demeter, they made him seem much more animalistic. Not the sophisticated, calculating, well-spoken nobleman in Stoker's novel. A persona or form which he dons as a mask to better blend with human society, hiding the "devil" within. I don't think a giant bat like creature or a walking bald corpse man would go unnoticed in the bustling streets of London. Lol. I'd personally like see how young Vlad ended up falling into to what was shown in Demeter, from more human, to a beast or "devil", even if it had nothing to do with Untold. In the novel it's speculated that the Count could have been a Necromancer and that is how he obtained his affliction. Anyway you cut it Universal could get some prequels and sequels out of either tying in Untold or going the more faithful literary route. Don't you think that'd be interesting?
@@battlecat6766 As I said to Ghostrider in the above, whether tied to Untold or not I'd like to see how Dracula became the monster on the Demeter, the monster willing to feed a baby to his brides in the novel, and then just as easily was able to slip into high society London and pass as human to all but the initiated like Van Helsing. Is it duality of nature? Does his beastial half struggle against his humanity? Does he remember being human, not just his family and land's history like he recounts in the novel to Johnathan? Was he infected or as I said was speculated in the novel, was he a Necromancer and that's how he obtained his affliction? Stoker's novel is great and one of my favorite old horror books, but just because "the unknowable" can be terrifying, doesn't mean you can't scare me just as much with the "gorey details". If you catch my drift.
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Would have just started dumping the crates into the sea immediately upon sun up the day the girl was found. It'd been "Last sinking of Dracula's dirt box". But I guess that wouldn't be much of a movie.
I think Anna doesn't quickly change like the others because the people from her village have built up some immunity to the bite from a vampire. Dracula after all has been feeding off of this village for centuries.
Nah I think drac has the ability to limit his venom output into Anna I mean he needed to keep her alive for a certain amount of time he wasn’t looking to change her
It's stated in the movie that it was the blood transfusions she was getting that was staving off the change. Once the ship was gone and she could no longer get transfusions she changed.
This is one of the best Vampire/Dracula movies out there up with Dracula Untold, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stokers Dracula, The Lost Boys, and 30 days of Night.
This movie was pretty funny, but for me, the best version of Dracula's attack on the Demeter is the one from the 1922 movie "Nosferatu." It's incredible how the scene in which one of the sailors finds Orlok still gives me goosebumps even to this day.
One of my favorite interpretations of Fracula was Dracula 2000. In it Drac is actually judas iscariot. Cursed by god as his punishment for betraying christ. It explains why religious artifacts dont affect him and why he is repulsed by silver. An interesting take on the legend and one of my favorite movies.
Same here, I enjoyed the take of the legend as well, but I feel they made it to corny and stupid. They should reboot it and with the same concept but make it better and more intricate
UK here.. i enjoy you videos, not just the content, your voice is calming.. i want to see what you think of this movie. in my opinion, this is the best Dracula movie since, Dracula untold..
I thoroughly enjoyed this film, having found that it possessed just the perfect blend of sinister creepiness, horror and action to add fresh insights into the legend of Dracula! This vampire creature was a distorted, feral beast, destroying the belief of a human - looking bloodsucker that we've all become familiar with in the past!
Well it makes no sense though, I watched it and wondered why they didn’t just drop all the crates off the boat during the day? Also in the book there were no survivors from the boat.
Maybe when Anna said the he was coming for her, she was refering to the "infection". It was coming for her afterall, so maybe she was already feeling it spread.
I liked this movie gave an explanation of why Dracula killed the crew if he needed to get to London. I remember it didn't make sense when I was reading the book back in the day. The movie explains that this wasn't the original plan, he just attacked all of them because they cut off his food source.
This is my favorite version of vampires burning in the sun, they not just turn into ash, but they straight up explode in flames, its violent, slow and painful, and here it looks gnarly as sin bc you can see their skin boil, and considering their high durability they take a while to burn.
This was a crazy movie. I was impressed by the suspense of it. I think they did a good job. The ending was interesting too, it left a good cliff hanger for a sequel. Unfortunately it wasn't popular in theaters
Props to Javier Botet for making Dracula not only intimidating but also making him look slender and creepy, he barley talks but when he does it feels like he’s mocking you while having fun at their torment, also I love how they use the dirt cause Dracula needs the dirt to sleep in his coffin to keep his strength Also I feel like you gotta cover the werewolves of Skyrim, vampriella from the comics (she’s pretty much a badass who hunts down evil vampires and even Dracula and faced the xenomorph as well, also I want to hear you cover the 28 weeks later movie cause it’ll be interesting to see how you think you would’ve done things differently and the virus itself especially when Don got infected and the whole house in the beginning getting sieged by the infected
I was super stoked to see this in theatres last year. It was filled with great actors, engaging plot and the subtleness of the visuals of the creature slowly growing was perfect. It was a modern depiction of an original to remind us of how horrific vampires, especially Dracula were described. No fancy cars, wardrobe or sparkles. Just cruelty, hunger and feral, animal-like evil.
I felt that the movie had potential yet it felt restrained. Also when they showed Dracula I automatically thought of Marcus, from the movie Underworld, in his humanoid bat form. It look like they were trying to mimic that look but on a smaller scale
I mean given that it’s 1 chapter in a book that also gives no background race,height etc to the crew. they did a pretty good job also Dracula looks how he looks in the book he’s supposed to be A Bald dude with fangs and Long Nails. He also is supposed to look like a “monster” on purpose to strike fear. He can shapeshift he just chooses to look like that. Why? I have no clue😂
I saw this in the theater. DAMN that was creepy. The first time he was seen in the telescope, and then vanished by time he lowered it, really creeped me out. I hope they continue this with the next part of the book.
I wanted to watch this and was so eager to see this part of the novel being told. Once I heard there was a survivor I couldn't watch it. I wanted it to end with no survivors like in the novel. Much more terrifying to find a ship with no crew than with one person left.
Dracul in medieval Romanian and old high German means Dragon but in medieval Hungarian it meant devil, hence " son of the dragon, son of the devil". The order of the Dragon was a knightly order like the templars founded by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, committed to protecting eastern Europe from the Ottomans. Vlad II Dracul was a member. Vlad III (Dracula) really took the fight to the Turks and enemies in his own kingdom Wallachia, the son of the devil name really stuck after Vlad III's (Dracula) torturing and impaling of his enemies became known throughout Europe. The Ottomans also called him Dracula the son of the devil.
Glad u enjoyed the movie too. I saw it twice in theaters and I enjoyed both times. I know it’s hard to say but I hope it gets a sequel , and for some reason , I feel that this kind form strategy would work to make a successful “dark universe “.
The ending was left wide open, with that said, I hope they make a follow-up film ! This and dracula untold both were open ended movies... we need more !
Yeah, in the book. No one made it off the Demeter alive. Tha captin tied himself to the steering wheel of the ship with a note attached to himself. The ship wrecked and the only thing people seen come out of it, was a large dog and it ran away.
Great cast..nice premise and creepy. The dark color pallet was an added effect....the director did a great job with this interpretation. Imagination is always the great equalizer when taking a classic trope and doing a twist movie. I'm sorry that this film didn't do as well as it should have. I went to an early matinee and was in the cinema alone...which was even more impactful...me..my popcorn and soda...ALONE! I Loved it...but I would have appreciated another patron or two in the cinema. Love the channel...a refreshing critique...Kudos!!
I just saw it and thought how does that fool anyone. Just a more humanoid wingless version. Still extremely pale, gaunty, the teeth, and above all the eyes are still the same.
This movie is an underrated classic if u ask me as it does not hold back on the gore. Dracula here isnt a handsome stud like he was in past incarnations but here hes terrifying to look at and very disturbing and it saddens me this was only in theaters for 2 weeks from what i heard and it didnt do well at the box office neither. I recommend this movie big time as it brings true horror back to Dracula Origins.
I would really love to see a video covering the movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with Robert De Niro as the tragic monster. One of my favs! As always I love your channel! Keep up the great work!
I think they tried to make this creature look like " the master" in salem's lot. Which to me was one of the scariest looking vampires in movie history.
I really enjoyed a lot of things about this movie. How it was setup to be more of a psychological thriller from the eyes of the crew (kinda like aliens) before becoming a straight up horror movie in the third act. How Dracula seemed to appear more “human” after each feeding. Giving the line “he can take on a human form when he wants to blend in” more depth as he would only need to blend in around humans, so the more he feeds, the more he can blend in and continue to feed. How they made sure the audience knew no one was safe, even the grandson. Also the plot twist (if you want to call it that) of Anna still turning regardless of the help that Clemens did was a nice “no happy endings” kind of development. Like the movie is over and Dracula won, not the “good guys”.
Toby is not captains son, Toby is his grandson...he even mentions it ,that he is all that he has left of his daughter... Also the form of Dracula from the end of the movie is reminiscent of of Nosferatu from 1922
I don’t know if anyone’s pointed it out, but when Dracula bites and infects men it makes sense they would turn faster than women, men pump blood through their bodies faster than women and have higher metabolism (at least generally). Also I think it would make sense that Dracula being the progenitor Vampire has enhanced supernatural abilities that allow him to control how fast someone is going to turn, hence why Olgaren’s bite infects the younger bloke much slower than Dracula’s bite to Olgaren did.
A decent horror movie to watch. It was a bit too dark for me cause of all the death and how scary and brutal Dracula was. Great work to all the director and cast!
First, thank you for reminding me to watch this movie. Second, I would posit that Nicholas Cage's Dracula in Renfield is just as scary as anything from any of the more horror oriented vampire movies, but for completely different reasons.
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It's pretty crazy that there is an adaptation of "Dracula" that only covers one chapter of the novel. That said, this type of adaptation is actually not at all a bad idea as long as the selected chapter is fascinating enough to work alone. For example, I've always thought that a movie based on the novel "Let the Right One In" that only adapts the flashbacks showing Eli/Elias being taken with the other children to the castle and turned into a vampire would be a really fascinating prequel!
Renefield as well
@user-ye4bu6xh4ctrue. We're unfortunate.
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I never understood why so many controversy about Eli's nature. Even the author himself stated he's a male eunoch who adopted a female appearance to make people feel sorry for him. I do not find any reason to cause controversy with Eli's gender, as he cannot be considered a LGBT icon /Sjw propaganda AT ALL
Dude, the monster verse that never really came to. The mummy, Dracula an a bunch of other movie monsters were to exist together. Even can helsing was supposed to be a part of it can helsing?
Do you realize that movie execs now are so shit at their jobs that they will literally crowdsource movie ideas from this sort of information? In a few years when this movie you just invented the idea for comes out, we're all going to meet back here at this comment section and talk about how horrible hollywood is.
In Dracula, vampires aren't harmed by sunlight. Dracula could actually walk around in broad daylight with no effect except that he was slightly weakened. The whole concept of vampires being destroyed by sunlight was invented by the film Nosferatu, and might have been a misunderstanding of the sun rising just as the creature died (Correlation Causation Confusion).
Ya, the film would've been much better if the vampires weren't burned to death in sunlight and used a more creative option instead.
Are you sure that was the case for Lucy?
I have a feeling similar goes for Superman.
I always wondered about how the old school cartoon/radio show simplified his powers. "Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound/bounce."
I feel like maybe Supes *originally* was drawn leaping.
A character, with one leg extended, other knee up, one arm tucked, other arm extended and streaks running from him to the ground... Superman probably never actually flew. He might have just been jumping same as Hulk does.
This makes a lot more sense. I loved this movie but I kept wondering why Anna didnt just tell them the crate Dracula slept in, that way they could open it up in broad daylight and then toss him overboard. I didn't know that in the original cannon this wouldn't have worked regardless
Dracula could only walk in the sunlight under certain circumstances/times of the day that too when he had gorged in the blood of the living, possibly because he was so old or the original. The book explained so ... others however, being younger or having a weaker bloodline could not bear the sun
He didn't speak, he just fed. No unnecessary flourishes, just straight to business.
I love this aspect of this Dracula
He still messes with people as per usual but he's efficient about it.
he spoke
Weak story , Dracula looked great but it had poor casting , even diversity casting .. the screen play didn’t really get you hooked , more could have been done
@PoldarkGodzilla speak for yourself buddy you just have bad taste this was probably the best dracula movie and depiction of dracula on screen not some pretty boy with long flowing hair that gets one tapped or bodied by blonde bombshells and Liu kang look alikes and weak asss Scooby-Doo gangs he is ruthless and actually shows why and how he got the name dracula by showing his true nature and what truly being a vampire is..and the casting and the writing for the movie Is great! Everyone played there role well in this movie you don't ever need to be a director or judge any movie again with an opinion like that pal..on a movie like this..lol go touch some grass or sumthen friend..💯👌
This is the feral animalistic Dracula that we know and love. Not the top hat 🎩 wearing cane twirling gentleman of leisure he becomes at the end.
Absolutely this is the scariest Dracula version. This character has been abused and so many versions have been conceived. However the last voyage of the Demeter shows the most evil and scary Dracula I've ever seen. This Dracula is an intelligent experienced yet wild animal craving for his fill. He won't stop at anything and one by one he extinguished the Demeter's crew.
It makes you wonder what is he going to do in England. Great movie!!
hey Dracula Untold and Castlevanias Dracula is pretty great - also the one in Van Helsing
Spoiler alert: he dies in England
@@hundkebab2433you are obviously a child if those are your favorite Draculas 😂😂😂
you need to watch more films. that was embarrassing to read
Also that might mean they never saw any of Christopher Lee's version of dracula either. Like bride of dracula & others 😅😅
To think poor Jonathan was still locked in the castle during the whole movie
I'm reading the book again for Halloween. Do a different one every year, (Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, etc). Right about the time the Demeter crashes, ole Johnny boy is getting tortured, fed on and SA'd by the Brides. Laughed at for trying to escape by the Count's gypsy familiars and almost going crazy.
Poor Johnathan.
Maybe that can be like a prequel movie on its own or a standalone unique version like we're antologizing the book
@@user-ye4bu6xh4cnope he was sucking him dry, hungry and thirsty. He is slowly dying only escaped by throwing himself in the river
Dude I was thinking the same thing. Like the whole time the movie was playing I was thinking "what's Johnathan doing at that particular moment, or Lucy n mina, Dr Seward...?"
LAAAAAAAAAWWWWLLLLL. At least Dracula didn't off him right then & there. Left a pretty boy toy for his brides. How sweet.
Dracula's design in this movie is clearly inspired by the Nosferatu design
Count Orlok, you mean. "Nosferatu" is just another word coined by Bram Stoker for "vampire."
And the main character is inspired by woke, dei politics. FASCINATING
@@RustyShackleford-p3iwhat?
Definitely Nosteratu.
@@RustyShackleford-p3i weird and brainrot
This was utterly terrifying. It’s definitely the scariest vampire movie I’ve ever seen.
Check out 30 days of night !
This movie and 30 days of night were really good vampire horror movies
Dam… if that’s so than every other vampire horror movie must be worse than Friday 9
This is a second to 30 days of night. The entire atmosphere of that movie was scary..
People that think movies are scary need to grow up.
Really enjoy this depiction of Dracula, as he is essentially a human mimic type monster. He is not a man that hides a monster, he is a monster that hides in the guise of a man. When he is in a setting where he does not need to play any games, where his human mimicry serves no purpose, what is left is just the monster.
One thing that scared the soul out of me of this itineration of the character was the fact that he could perfectly speak but decided not to, why? Because he sees the crew as food and you don't talk with your food. That level of cold blood is terrifying
And him just repeating what they were saying was just cruelly taunting them. Sucking any form of hope away.
Wait you don’t talk to your milk and cookies?
A trilogy would have made sense: how he became a vampire, the voyage, then the hunt for him. Having said that, definitely worth a watch.
They should do a prequel about Johnathan harker and then a sequel about the hunt for him involving van healsing
The irony about the Dracula novel by Bram Stroker is that it was written as individual pieces (think in terms of comics but for books) and then collected into one huge omnibus.
The idea of a series of movies adapting the novel or even a mini-series with the budget of Game of Thrones isn’t too insane to do. In fact, I would argue Dracula is better for television, not theatrical (although it would be cool).
They tried this already a few years ago with a tv series starring Jonathan Rhys myers as Dracula it only got one season I think. Netflix did a Dracula adaption recently as well which was quiet good
Dracula was not written as individual pieces, though? Perhaps you're mistaking it for a serialized novel, like some of Charles Dickens works? But even those are not individual pieces later collected into an omnibus. They are unified novels that are simply released to the public one chapter at a time.
Dracula was "serialized" in some American newspapers in 1899, but it had already been published as a complete novel prior to that.
Dracula is an epistolary novel, meaning it's presented as a collection of letters between the characters, but the letters were never meant to be taken individually.
I think you might be mistaking Dracula for some other novel?
Not to be confused with Penny Dreadfulls.
kind of like a democrat spending bill...
This movie is really underrated, saw it in a theatre with 2 other people, but I enjoyed the film non the less. Felt a bit like “Alien” only on a ship with Dracula himself, I loved it 😂
the CGI looks so cheap... really disappointing. And the whole plot is so weird. I mean where is the surprise?
and why do all people on the ship act so stupid? Why didnt they search everything after the animals died?
Why didnt they stick together after Anna told the story that a monster is on board?
what an awfull, cheap movie.
10:20 and finally they get worried.. after all that stuff happened. Nobody is akting like that in the real world.
13:58 also their god damn WOODEN ship is burning!! And they just stand there and watch?
19:00 and of course.. the first USEFULL thing someone does in this movie, was obviously a women. Cause all men are god damn stupid in this movie. Go girl, slayy.
19:30 and even if it sinks... god damn he has WINGS !!!!! HE CAN FLY !!!!
who ever made this movie, should never touch a camera again.
everyone who likes this should really question his mentality.
I wonder if Dracula is where the idea for Alien originally came from?🤔
@@itzakpoelzig330 i love this conversation.. i think im going to love this movie.. on dec 25... earth time...
A great introduction to the Dracula character. The ending leaves the door wide open for a sequel. Well done
The ending was great.
a sequel? you mean, the rest of the book?
In Romanian Dracul is "the devil", dragon is spelled exactly the same but pronounced differently. Let me quickly explain why Vlad Țepeș's father was known as Vlad Dracul. He was initiated into a organization called Ordinul Dragonului, or "the order of the dragon", which used a dragon as its emblem. The latin (not Romanian) for dragon is Draco. The name simply adds the Romanian suffix for the article "the". As far as I could find Dracula is simply an English invention and resulted from a misunderstanding of historical source material. If you tried to use that word in Romanian it wouldn't make any sense. If you know any Romanian last names you might recognize a lot of them end with "escu". This is the suffix for "son of" in archaic Romanian. These is also a feminine version with "ea" that is much more rare, so you could with a stretch say it means daughter of the devil is you spelled it Draculea... But even that would not be recognizable in modern Romanian. Not to be overly critical. I just hate it when people are misled about what something means in a language I speak.
I know the family name of his still survives as Florescu. If my memory serves me right
Interesting
It’s the Captain’s grandson, not his son. Dracula spoke throughout the film. For me this is one of the best Vampire movies I’ve ever seen. I hope there will be a sequel.
I'm gonna assume the sequel will be titled "The Count of Carfax Abbey"
Sadly, no. It bombed at the box office. It is also based on a chapter in a book. I would have loved to have seen this iteration of the character in a miniseries based on the entire book.
Unfortunately no sequel as the book said he made it to England so Dracula won the battle at sea Now we’re Lucy 😅
@@palefacejackthere is definitely a cult following for this movie & movies like it
A lot of movies bomb in the theatre then turn out to be cult classics
The movie was brilliant and anybody interested in Dracula would love a sequel
It may not be in the theaters, but that’s fine straight to hulu or Netflix will be fine
maybe as dracula feeds he regains more of his strength and power with each bit of blood he consumes. that would explain the changes as he killed each victim. it is almost like he was starving himself on purpose just so he could better enjoy the hunt and taste of his food :P
That was definitely my interpretation as well!
It is explained in the movie (albeit poorly) that he was feeding on the girl and rationing. He was intentionally starved. Once she was "saved" he wasn't able to feed for a couple of nights. So with each kill he is regaining his strength. That's why he becomes more and more lethal with each kill.
I would think starving himself would have a different purpose. My guess would be that it was out of necessity to be able to be transported to the ship. It would've taken a good amount of time to travel most of the way across Europe by horse drawn cart. If he was to be feeding on people the entire trip, it's unlikely that anyone would continue transporting the crate. Once he's on the ship, he doesn't have a need to continue starving himself.
I was disappointed with the ending look of dracula. I think it would've been more terrifying to the main character when he sees dracula as a man instead as what he saw on the ship. The scary realization that this creature can blend in with other humans would be another factor as why hes more determined to hunt it would've been great.
It would have been even better if it was a book-accurate tall thin man with long black hair, a moustache and a pointed beard with a white streak through it.
I know folks are gonna jump down my throat with "But he was an old man with a moustache!" Yes. Only at the beginning and end of the novel. During his time in London he looked more like a stereotypical moustache-twirling villain.
@@filthycasual8187In the chapter "The Captains Log" that this movie is inspired by, the crew describe a tall thin man, but I'm not sure if the crew actually gave other details to the captain to write down. Especially if they were all going missing one by one, this Dracula has no reason to act as a man
@@chshirerat5487 If you'd read the comment I was responding to and apply context, you'd understand I was referring SPECIFICALLY to his look at the end of the movie when he's in London. I was fine with his appearance while on the Demeter, I thought it was a good look.
The two knocks are also the sound of the heartbeat. As the film progresses the knocks get more frequent and erratic as the crew call for help, subliminally hyping us (the audience) up with the increased pace of the films heartbeat.
Great point I missed that
I love horror movies, but I don't get scared or creeped out too often, but this one had a moment that gave me chills. The moment Dracula echoes the guys "please, no." That just creeped me tf out! I imagined being absolutely TERRIFIED for your life and pleading helplessly as your last hope only to be mocked by this creature that not only sees you as food, but finds your cries entertaining😳😳 that gets me every time. I've gotten tired of the standard vampire and zombie movies, but I really liked this one. Loved the design as well and that he wasn't just a human who is Dracula, he's a real monster.
I liked this movie as a whole. I'm a little disappointed that Dracula's final form at the end of the movie wasn't more traditional (i.e. human-like) but that shot where he's walking into the English fog in that alleyway kinda evoked a bit of Jack the Ripper I think, which is perfect for Dracula when he's on the hunt in London.
I feel like the ending was a letdown because dracula was TOO human. Throughout the movie he was very beastial, and couldn't have possibly been mistaken for human, but there he is enjoying himself in a bar....
If they leaned into something more jack the ripper-like with Clemens seeing him in an alleyway attacking a prostitute, it would have made more sense....(and I like the idea of Clemens following rumors of jack the ripper knowing it was dracula, but that could be overstepping).
Writing was good, acting was good, Dracula looked horrible. It would’ve been better not to show him at all. Get rid of the CGI!
I think the whole point was that he's supposed to be more unnatural in this design, even his most human form by the end was still nosferatu-esque simply hidden by heavy clothing in London where people already have a general sense of unsociability and poverty at the time.
Possibly also the pollution of the time probably means Dracula can go out in daylight if he must. Pretty sure now that I think about it that daylight wasn't a factor in the books, we actually do see him walk around in daylight when he's reached London right?
Well in the books he's supposed to turn into a top hat 🎩 wearing cane twirling gentleman of leisure. I think it's more fun when he's a monster.
@@KOOKMON1such hate to Dracula. He looked awesome
I loved this movie. Best Dracula/vampire movie since Bram Stroker's 1990s film. I love how they show how Dracula becomes more human-like as he progressively feeds on more humans. Not sure if that was intentional or not but worked great.
One of the greatest Dracula movie in my book!
And I dont care about the reviews, this movie wasnt a "flop" for me!
This is actually a fangtastic idea for a movie. Taking a piece of the novel instead of the full story is a bit easier to consume in film form. There's so much detail that gets lost and can't be explored. Really excited to see more from this franchise. Absolutely awesome breakdown. 👌
‼️Idk why we have to keep treading the same vampire stories set in the same places over and over again. Give me vampires in Edo Japan fighting samurai or Vikings vs vampires. They are ancient so surely they would have clashed with histories best warriors at some point! Vampires vs ancient Rome, vampires in Sparta! At least this was set on the ship which was different. But I just really want to see a samurai slicing a vampire who is regenerating at the same time. So the samurai would have to be faster and faster. Anyway I just want historical warriors fighting mythical creatures. That movie Viking wolf that came out recently made me so mad! It was set in modern times but in the very beginning told of how a Viking was bit by a wolf on a raid and when the Viking ships returned the ships were empty except for a wolf. Then they flashed to modern times!!!! I don't want to see that! Give me the Viking vs werewolf movie!!! I'm so mad they just glossed right over that in favor of a done to death kid is bitten and family has to decide what to do plot line 🙄
We won't be seeing anything from this movie, it bombed at the box office. Which was a shame because I felt it was competently written and I liked it.
@@Theendman42 Eh, they removed the perceived final heroic deed of the captain when he tied himself in the ship's wheel with a cross.
All in favor of the black man being the last survivor. I notice he is also the doctor (who now knows some ways to kill the vampire), so there's a big possibility that this Clemence guy replaces Doctor Van Helsing and f up the source material. Good thing it bombed.
@@paulievespucci6867you had to specify your problem was a black man who was the only survivor and could possibly replace Van Helsing. Therefore good thing it bombed? Says alot about you lol
A possibility that he replaces Van Helsing? How? Van Helsing wasn't even on the boat in the book. Van Helsing doesn't even appear in the novel until after the boat arrives, Dracula moves into the Abbey, and members of the white aristocracy start getting mysteriously anemic.
The book doesn't tell us about anything that happened onboard the Demeter, it just has the ship blow into port full of corpses and boxes of dirt.
The film makers took a blank in the book and filled it with their own imaginings, as Bram Stoker left us to do.
No one's infringing on Van Helsing in any way. Your racism is causing you to be irrationally paranoid.
Saw this last night. Not only frightening but disturbing. Something about this Dracula really unsettled me. He was so removed from the human being he must've been before he became a vampire. Nothing demonstrates this point so well as when he repeats his victims last words. This is an "echo" of the humanity he lost so many years ago. But it's also a reminder and a warning to us. What he has become, we too can become. The seeds of ultimate evil are there in us. The "echo" can not exist without the one who first speaks it. Dracula fans - if you're looking for Bela Lugosi, you won't find him here. Instead expect a feral, truly monstrous distortion of humanity.
Two thumbs up.
I think that's a true representation of how a vampire would evolve ... especially Dracula, because of his long years just feeding and sleeping. He wouldn't become more human even though he's feeding regularly on humans, I think he would degenerate further into a more animalistic primal state.
Watched this with my pa last night . When he says "please no" mocking that dude was so creepy and when he says "you will" in response to "i dont fear you " great movie and creepy take on Dracula
Another underrated adaptation of Bram Stoker's book is the 1970 Spanish film "Count Dracula", directed by Jesús Franco. That film stands out for being the adaptation that most faithfully tries to adapt the novel, being more faithful than even Coppola's film. Furthermore, Dracula (who appears as the old mustachioed man that the novel describes) is played here by none other than Christopher Lee, who at the time was still acting as the Count for the Hammer films. Lee was already fed up with those movies due to their absolute lack of respect to the novel's themes, so he did not hesitate to participate enthusiastically in that faithful adaptation. The cast also includes the insane Klaus Kinski as a mute Renfield (my favorite portrayal of the character) and Herbert Lom as Van Helsing. The movie is not a masterpiece at all, especially because of its low budget, but it definitely deserves to be watched by every single Dracula fan!
Brilliantly put here! There is a reason why people appreciate good comments on RUclips.
This is one of them. Thank you for your time, fellow user 🙏
THANK YOU FOR SAYING WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS!!!
I'd say that the 70s BBC TV adaptation is the most faithful. That's its strength, and also its weakness. There's so much of the novel that is actually rather dull and rightly left out of filmed versions.
@@johnjames-glover4630 Point taken. But that's King for you!
It was written by Jesus himself? Dayum it must be good
This Dracula design is clearly in debt with Mornau's Nosferatu
Credits even say so.
I never expected they would go for the kid. Very disturbing. Really beautiful production. 😊
Clemens. The Final Girl we all needed in this horror movie.
The Dracula shown in the movie is a blood thirsty savage creature, but the post credit scene shows him being a high intelligent creature that can act like human (Probably can talk too). I think if there will be a sequel, the vibe will be quite different from the first one.
Gave me a bit of that 'Mimic' vibe
my issue is they knew for days he was in one of the boxes. all of those boxes would have broken open during day and dirt over board.
Same. They found the box… then it’s never mentioned again. The girl goes from half dead, scared for her life, to girl boss ready to fight, which was weird.
@@WTA1115that's because it was DEI: girl boss and a black doctor--none of which existed in this time period
Don't mind them...the foolishness of the crew
Man this was a excellent movie. I rented it and watched it 4x,I couldn't believe how well the story was put together. A must see!!!
I liked the movie right up to the end where not only does the Captain not get tied to the wheel with the rosary so that his body could be found {this was a particularly brave act in the book) but the doctor makes out alive and unharmed where it is implied that he will start hunting Dracula. I would have accepted the ending more if the doctor had ended up in a medical facility of some sort with a visitor we only see from the back talking with him about his experience assuring him that his account will be kept in the strictest confidence thus assuring him of his personal safety. When the man gets up we see it is Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing. This would bridge this movie and rest of the story quite nicely considering the ships doctor is he who was never mentioned in Dracula at all.
I sort of felt like they were going to making the doc into Van Helsing. I could easily have seen them doing that in a sequel.
@@TheLastKentuckyIrregular9524 I don't know how they could have. His name was already established and it wasn't Van Helsing. Van Helsing is also called in by Dr. Seward as his personal friend and mentor and an expert in not only medicine but in the occult. He already knew what Dracula was and what he was capable of. He knew how to help Lucy and it bought Lucy at least a few days. The Demeter's doctor did not. I accept they took a few liberties in order to make a few paragraphs into a full movie and I again stress I did like the film except the ending which does not work with the rest of the established narrative. Had they not left out the Captain's noble sacrifice and made it either apparent Dracula finished the job on the doctor or made it so he passes the torch on to the folks who actually kill him I would have liked the ending too.
Movie was so good, from beginning to the end. One of the BEST Vamp movies ever!
This whole passage of the book was inspired by a real life ship crash. The real ship was called The Demitri and was sailing from Narva. It crashed into Whitby harbour in a terrible storm x
@@thotslayer9914 No why? x
In the real life story of the Dmitri, when the ship crashed at the dock, the witnesses notice the crew were dead and a verge abnormally large wolf/dog like creature ran off the ship.
@@ramonantoniodejuanbennett6239 The crew abandoned ship and survived, it's well documented in the records. There are rumours of a large dog though I don't know how true they are as a dog wouldn't be much use on a ship x
I am happy to say this movie exceeded my low expectations. You can tell they took this seriously and did a good job.
this movie gives a unique POV of how scary Dracula can be
I’m not a Dracula fan but as a vampire lover I do want to see more evil, creepy, dark or “demonic” interpretations of vampires instead of the romanticized urban fantasies that has been accepted in recent years.
@@Gemini053finally someone else agrees with me when I say I think draculas a bit overrated. I think the main reason I think that is because Brahms book is considered the “first vampire book” when in actuality that’s not true. Kinda annoying to see brahm get all the attention for a thing he didn’t really invent and that’s probably why I dislike Dracula.
@@Gemini053Honestly I feel the same. I've been reading the fan base of vampire diaries and Buffy and twilight calling vampires p*dos and r*pists because they fall for younger people. I'm like "they don't fkn care, they are meant to be monsters"
@@Gemini053 The creature in this movie is more like a 'revenant'. They loose a bit of their human looks and speech.
@@Mushess The 1th was in 1800 'Wake not the Dead' by Johann Ludwig Tieck after that, 19 others were published until 1897 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker. Another one famous was 'The Vampyre; A Tale' in 1819 by Dr John Polidori, and wrote it at the same time as Mary Shelley wrote Dr Frankstein, when they were staying in the same house with Lord Byron and her husband, writing as a contest. You can know all about it in 'The Vampire Encyclopedia'.
Yes! When I saw this in theaters I really liked how this movie showed weak form Dracula to his final form, even though I didn’t read the books I was wondering what would my favorite Vampire channel think about this 2023 Dracula film. Love your content and I hope you come up with more. I’ll see you in the shadows my friend 😎
A genuinely great movie. BTW, Toby is the Captain's grandson not his son.
Serious 😂 a bit woke , weak screenplay , good looking Dracula though
Sounds like people mad because the black man was the only survivor😂
@@6sixty1gixxer80and their dumb reason is “woke” 😂
@@PoldarkGodzillaWhat is that even supposed to mean? That Mr Clemens was too black?
21:42 so apparently the whole film was done practically but then the studio decided they didn’t like it so they brought in CGI to do over the practical effects which I’ve heard lists say was a massive mistake and I think they were probably right, I mean CGI has its place when it’s done will but for some projects you can’t beat a good practical effect it’s why they are still been used all these years after the invention of CGI.
Dammit it’s The Thing prequel all over again
I saw this movie twice and I absolutely loved it. I like vampires like this. Vampires that are straight to business, ugly and grotesque looking because they’re the undead and not some beautiful looking vampire that we lust after.
I never understood why they didn’t just torch the ship during the day while they all got on life boats. After they all saw Dracula in the room with Toby, the next day during the day, I would have set the ship on fire. I would figure this creature only comes out at night, so during the day you are safe. I would just take my chances with the ocean.
But yes, a very solid movie indeed. Does anyone else have any other good vampire movie suggestions? I’ve seen all underworld movies, lost boys, van helsing, and fright night. Oh, and blood red sky is good as well.
Twilight
Ending bit was hilarious for me ''We will sink the ship and he will drown'' > didn't account for the chance it could fly.
He would probably survive that, Dracula seem to need a close and personal death in most adaptations. The strain seems to indicate that you need a very powerful blast to get rid of a high tier vampire.
Same, there’s not many Vampire movies you guys can educate me on, I’ve seen them ALL. This why I LOVE this channel. This guy gets us.
I haven't seen it in over a decade, and i know it didn't perform well, but i remember enjoying the german Vampire movie 'Wir sind die Nacht'. Best way i can describe it is Lost Boys meets The Craft
Dracula's appearance and behavior in this movie really reminds me a lot of a wendigo
Was looking for this comment , looks like the wendigo from until dawn
@@youngmoses777 Yeah, Until Dawn's depiction of the wendigo is a relatively accurate representation of how the wendigo is described in native American folklore, a lanky corpselike human with pale skin. It is also Dracula's tendency to mimic voices that caught my attention, as that's also a pretty common part of the lore.
This movie was awesome & super underrated! Basically The Thing + Dracula on a boat
Comparing this pile of dung to either is a crime.
I wonder if Universal even thought that they could use this movie as the continuation of Untold. It could show the extreme difference between young, newly turned, hopeful Vlad and the unrecognizable monster he had become by the time of the events of the novel. It could've given some character development, some motivations as to why Vlad became so animalistic and inhuman in the novel. Maybe he's been trying to limit his blood intake thus being ravenous on the Demeter. Maybe seeing Mina's picture that John Harker had, awoke something in him and now he's doing all he can to get to her.
After Demeter they could do Dracula proper and then segue into what was teased at the end of Untold. Vlad meeting the modern incarnation of Mina, his wife's soul reborn, and having to battle it out with the Master Vampire after regaining some of his humanity through the centuries of searching out and losing his beloved. They could have had at least 4 or 5 movies easy.
I wish untold was more successful, but I don’t think that would be a good idea. Hopefully this film did well enough to really give is more opportunity to see Dracula as he’s supposed to be… a horrifying monster.
just added a comment thinking along these lines but I like where you take it
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Thing is that even "horrifying monsters", the Strigoi and Nosferatu that Bram Stoker based Dracula on, started out as normal people. By either sin, improper burial, a turn of bad luck like a cat jumping over their casket or via witchcraft they became those monsters. I could see a parallel in actual humanity with the concept of power and it's corrupting influence over time. Untold Vlad started out trying to save his people, his family, his Kingdom. He tried to resist the forbidden aspect of the Master's "gift" to him, until he no choice and was forced to drink to save his son as his wife was already dead. Now centuries later after outliving all his loved ones, everyone he knew, he's just given up letting the power corrupt him, but it took that first step.
As for literary Dracula, he's far from stupid in the book, which they seemed to forget in the Demeter movie, and though sometimes animalistic and monsterous, he plans his trip to England, purchasing several spots to house his Transylvanian earth besides just Carfax Abby. He even asks Johnathan if it's acceptable in business dealings to engage more than one solicitor to take care of separate multiple tasks, which he does.
When they showed Dracula in Demeter, they made him seem much more animalistic. Not the sophisticated, calculating, well-spoken nobleman in Stoker's novel. A persona or form which he dons as a mask to better blend with human society, hiding the "devil" within. I don't think a giant bat like creature or a walking bald corpse man would go unnoticed in the bustling streets of London. Lol.
I'd personally like see how young Vlad ended up falling into to what was shown in Demeter, from more human, to a beast or "devil", even if it had nothing to do with Untold.
In the novel it's speculated that the Count could have been a Necromancer and that is how he obtained his affliction.
Anyway you cut it Universal could get some prequels and sequels out of either tying in Untold or going the more faithful literary route.
Don't you think that'd be interesting?
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As I said to Ghostrider in the above, whether tied to Untold or not I'd like to see how Dracula became the monster on the Demeter, the monster willing to feed a baby to his brides in the novel, and then just as easily was able to slip into high society London and pass as human to all but the initiated like Van Helsing. Is it duality of nature? Does his beastial half struggle against his humanity? Does he remember being human, not just his family and land's history like he recounts in the novel to Johnathan? Was he infected or as I said was speculated in the novel, was he a Necromancer and that's how he obtained his affliction?
Stoker's novel is great and one of my favorite old horror books, but just because "the unknowable" can be terrifying, doesn't mean you can't scare me just as much with the "gorey details". If you catch my drift.
@JohnDoe-gi1vr Wrong person chief. I just want more good Vampire movies.
I love this RUclips channel because am writing a manga about vampires and this really helps with the research and it would be amazing if it gets a anime adaptation and it gets featured on the channel
Really hope it goes well man would you be going with this style of decrepit vampire or a more Hollywood approach
Would have just started dumping the crates into the sea immediately upon sun up the day the girl was found. It'd been "Last sinking of Dracula's dirt box". But I guess that wouldn't be much of a movie.
I think Anna doesn't quickly change like the others because the people from her village have built up some immunity to the bite from a vampire. Dracula after all has been feeding off of this village for centuries.
Nah I think drac has the ability to limit his venom output into Anna I mean he needed to keep her alive for a certain amount of time he wasn’t looking to change her
It's stated in the movie that it was the blood transfusions she was getting that was staving off the change. Once the ship was gone and she could no longer get transfusions she changed.
You can’t build an immunity to vampire attacks they simply don’t drain you or infect you.
This is one of the best Vampire/Dracula movies out there up with Dracula Untold, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stokers Dracula, The Lost Boys, and 30 days of Night.
This movie was pretty funny, but for me, the best version of Dracula's attack on the Demeter is the one from the 1922 movie "Nosferatu." It's incredible how the scene in which one of the sailors finds Orlok still gives me goosebumps even to this day.
I forgot about that!
Shadow of the Vampire.
Defoe was hilarious
@@MYJEWISHLAMPSHADES love that film , bit of a forgotten classic, it's available on youtube surprisingly
@@marcraygun6290 Hes the Joker we should have had.
Btw...Joker is stolen German culture.
Considering it was shot in black in white and a silent picture and made on a low budget it deserves an Oscar if Oscars existed back then.
This was a truly terrifying and gory movie. Lots of great special effects and a dark sinister air throughout. Just fucking fantastic.
I loved this depiction of Dracula.
No negotiations. No unneeded babbling. Dracula jus wanting to feed.
If they knew he must "sleep" in the dirt where he was turned, just chuck the coffin overboard.
One of my favorite interpretations of Fracula was Dracula 2000. In it Drac is actually judas iscariot. Cursed by god as his punishment for betraying christ. It explains why religious artifacts dont affect him and why he is repulsed by silver. An interesting take on the legend and one of my favorite movies.
Same here, I enjoyed the take of the legend as well, but I feel they made it to corny and stupid. They should reboot it and with the same concept but make it better and more intricate
Who th is Fracula 😂😂😂
@@Cormano980 whoops lol
Terrible, lmao.
UK here.. i enjoy you videos, not just the content, your voice is calming.. i want to see what you think of this movie. in my opinion, this is the best Dracula movie since, Dracula untold..
I thoroughly enjoyed this film, having found that it possessed just the perfect blend of sinister creepiness, horror and action to add fresh insights into the legend of Dracula! This vampire creature was a distorted, feral beast, destroying the belief of a human - looking bloodsucker that we've all become familiar with in the past!
Actually the captian being burned due to being held by the vampire boy on fire is a new concept.
Bruh this film so underrated it’s criminal! Berner Tot should’ve gotten a nomination or Clemens (especially since Berner is so menacing).
Well it makes no sense though, I watched it and wondered why they didn’t just drop all the crates off the boat during the day? Also in the book there were no survivors from the boat.
Maybe when Anna said the he was coming for her, she was refering to the "infection". It was coming for her afterall, so maybe she was already feeling it spread.
I liked this movie gave an explanation of why Dracula killed the crew if he needed to get to London. I remember it didn't make sense when I was reading the book back in the day. The movie explains that this wasn't the original plan, he just attacked all of them because they cut off his food source.
You’re my idol Cogan!!! The greatest person and vampire expert in world history!!!!!
Dracula Untold was criminally underrated, was very excited when I seen this
This is my favorite version of vampires burning in the sun, they not just turn into ash, but they straight up explode in flames, its violent, slow and painful, and here it looks gnarly as sin bc you can see their skin boil, and considering their high durability they take a while to burn.
This was a crazy movie. I was impressed by the suspense of it.
I think they did a good job. The ending was interesting too, it left a good cliff hanger for a sequel.
Unfortunately it wasn't popular in theaters
Props to Javier Botet for making Dracula not only intimidating but also making him look slender and creepy, he barley talks but when he does it feels like he’s mocking you while having fun at their torment, also I love how they use the dirt cause Dracula needs the dirt to sleep in his coffin to keep his strength
Also I feel like you gotta cover the werewolves of Skyrim, vampriella from the comics (she’s pretty much a badass who hunts down evil vampires and even Dracula and faced the xenomorph as well, also I want to hear you cover the 28 weeks later movie cause it’ll be interesting to see how you think you would’ve done things differently and the virus itself especially when Don got infected and the whole house in the beginning getting sieged by the infected
Hey! A Vampirella lover! It’s strange to see a fellow fan in the comments. Not many know about her.
@@Gemini053oh I love her she’s literally the vampire waifu for me especially since she’s a badass
I was super stoked to see this in theatres last year. It was filled with great actors, engaging plot and the subtleness of the visuals of the creature slowly growing was perfect. It was a modern depiction of an original to remind us of how horrific vampires, especially Dracula were described. No fancy cars, wardrobe or sparkles. Just cruelty, hunger and feral, animal-like evil.
0:04 “”I have this sudden desire to go deep sea shark hunting with myself as bait””
Just wanna say, recently found your channel and absolutely love it, one of my new favorites, love your passion
I felt that the movie had potential yet it felt restrained. Also when they showed Dracula I automatically thought of Marcus, from the movie Underworld, in his humanoid bat form. It look like they were trying to mimic that look but on a smaller scale
Agreed. It is not a bad movie but it could have been BETTER!
I mean given that it’s 1 chapter in a book that also gives no background race,height etc to the crew. they did a pretty good job also Dracula looks how he looks in the book he’s supposed to be A Bald dude with fangs and Long Nails. He also is supposed to look like a “monster” on purpose to strike fear. He can shapeshift he just chooses to look like that. Why? I have no clue😂
Dracula untold will always imo be the best telling of the story
This movie was great and I love how it's based on "Captain log" even tho it's not exactly efficient to the book it's still great watch.
I like that they actually made it different, making the film continuity its own thing with its own potential future.
I saw this in the theater. DAMN that was creepy. The first time he was seen in the telescope, and then vanished by time he lowered it, really creeped me out. I hope they continue this with the next part of the book.
I wanted to watch this and was so eager to see this part of the novel being told. Once I heard there was a survivor I couldn't watch it. I wanted it to end with no survivors like in the novel. Much more terrifying to find a ship with no crew than with one person left.
Dracul in medieval Romanian and old high German means Dragon but in medieval Hungarian it meant devil, hence " son of the dragon, son of the devil". The order of the Dragon was a knightly order like the templars founded by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, committed to protecting eastern Europe from the Ottomans. Vlad II Dracul was a member. Vlad III (Dracula) really took the fight to the Turks and enemies in his own kingdom Wallachia, the son of the devil name really stuck after Vlad III's (Dracula) torturing and impaling of his enemies became known throughout Europe. The Ottomans also called him Dracula the son of the devil.
This was actually very good 👏👏
Glad u enjoyed the movie too.
I saw it twice in theaters and I enjoyed both times.
I know it’s hard to say but I hope it gets a sequel , and for some reason , I feel that this kind form strategy would work to make a successful “dark universe “.
The sequel is the main Dracula storyline 😄
The ending was left wide open, with that said, I hope they make a follow-up film ! This and dracula untold both were open ended movies... we need more !
This Dracula was absolutely terrifying and amazing.🧛🏻🩸🦇
Bro thinks he carti
I need a “My Babysitter’s a Vampire” explanation lmao 😂 loved that show and I now feel old after seeing how long ago it aired 😅
Yeah, in the book. No one made it off the Demeter alive. Tha captin tied himself to the steering wheel of the ship with a note attached to himself. The ship wrecked and the only thing people seen come out of it, was a large dog and it ran away.
If this is the start of a whole new Universal Studios horrorverse, im sooo into this
Great cast..nice premise and creepy. The dark color pallet was an added effect....the director did a great job with this interpretation. Imagination is always the great equalizer when taking a classic trope and doing a twist movie. I'm sorry that this film didn't do as well as it should have. I went to an early matinee and was in the cinema alone...which was even more impactful...me..my popcorn and soda...ALONE! I Loved it...but I would have appreciated another patron or two in the cinema. Love the channel...a refreshing critique...Kudos!!
Scariest? No, most Animalistic version of him, for sure, I also love how his 'human' form, looks nearly the same as his monster form at the end lol.
I just saw it and thought how does that fool anyone. Just a more humanoid wingless version. Still extremely pale, gaunty, the teeth, and above all the eyes are still the same.
@@davevd9944i think that's just how he wanted the doc to recognize him but if he wanted that the crane would just do it so who knows
This was way better than I originally believed it was going to be. A pretty good horror movie, well done.
This movie is an underrated classic if u ask me as it does not hold back on the gore. Dracula here isnt a handsome stud like he was in past incarnations but here hes terrifying to look at and very disturbing and it saddens me this was only in theaters for 2 weeks from what i heard and it didnt do well at the box office neither. I recommend this movie big time as it brings true horror back to Dracula Origins.
I would really love to see a video covering the movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with Robert De Niro as the tragic monster. One of my favs! As always I love your channel! Keep up the great work!
I think they tried to make this creature look like " the master" in salem's lot. Which to me was one of the scariest looking vampires in movie history.
My favorite part of the novel and my favorite Dracula movie. I thought the pacing, acting, and effects all worked well.
I really enjoyed a lot of things about this movie. How it was setup to be more of a psychological thriller from the eyes of the crew (kinda like aliens) before becoming a straight up horror movie in the third act. How Dracula seemed to appear more “human” after each feeding. Giving the line “he can take on a human form when he wants to blend in” more depth as he would only need to blend in around humans, so the more he feeds, the more he can blend in and continue to feed. How they made sure the audience knew no one was safe, even the grandson. Also the plot twist (if you want to call it that) of Anna still turning regardless of the help that Clemens did was a nice “no happy endings” kind of development. Like the movie is over and Dracula won, not the “good guys”.
The way he crept above the grandson and dragged the boy up..chefs kiss
Toby is not captains son, Toby is his grandson...he even mentions it ,that he is all that he has left of his daughter...
Also the form of Dracula from the end of the movie is reminiscent of of Nosferatu from 1922
This isn't even the scariest Dracula by far, Leslie neilson's portrayal was frightening.
I don’t know if anyone’s pointed it out, but when Dracula bites and infects men it makes sense they would turn faster than women, men pump blood through their bodies faster than women and have higher metabolism (at least generally). Also I think it would make sense that Dracula being the progenitor Vampire has enhanced supernatural abilities that allow him to control how fast someone is going to turn, hence why Olgaren’s bite infects the younger bloke much slower than Dracula’s bite to Olgaren did.
A decent horror movie to watch. It was a bit too dark for me cause of all the death and how scary and brutal Dracula was. Great work to all the director and cast!
I shit myself too 😅😅
I won’t lie, the scene when the kid turns to ash is legitimately sad. And the suspense in this film was well done.
First, thank you for reminding me to watch this movie. Second, I would posit that Nicholas Cage's Dracula in Renfield is just as scary as anything from any of the more horror oriented vampire movies, but for completely different reasons.
I’ve been waiting for you to cover this! Love the content!
Still haven’t seen it but I probably will one day. The scariest Dracula is still Gary Oldman.
Nah, he's more romantic than scary.
Thankyou. I love the pub scene. The cain, hat and coalk( Cape). A dedicated to the book and movies.
hey! the black guy lived! usually we're the first to go! lol ....im kidding. i gotta see this movie in full.
Lol, I'm white, and one of my best friends is black as black. We were talking about that happening recently 😂 laughed our asses off!
You people ONLY think think about Race smh
I wish I had watched THIS before watching the movie! Excellent job.