Fun fact: The actress who played Verona married the actor who played Dracula after they met on the set of Van Helsing. So she really is Dracula's bride (and they have 3 kids now).
And interestingly, Verona being the top bride was actually the way director Stephen Sommers imagined their relationship to Dracula. He's said in behind-the-scenes featurettes that the way he imagined the brides was that Verona was the actual WIFE of Dracula, and Aleera and Marishka were his mistresses.
Hi guys I was the young dark haired ( sulky ) bride of Dracula in the BBC 1977 version. My stage name at the time was Susie Hickford. It was very interesting filming with Philip Saville directing. The cast were all so professional and the whole production was meticulous . It's still quite watchable even 47 years later. Thanks for putting us at No.2 Love, Suzy ❤️ Ps. Louis Jordan reeked of garlic during filming. Superstitious? I don't think so. It had more to do with him being French perhaps.
Yes, "Van Helsing" was my favourite depiction of Dracula's Brides, and they really got time to shine. I'd love to see them in a prequel film, showing their origins before they met Dracula.
I agree, they were a highlight of the otherwise mediocre film (although Silvestri's soundtrack was good too). But I think the scariest depiction was the 1931 film, they have a creepiness you don't see nowadays outside of j-horror.
The Grecian costuming of the brides in Coppola's Dracula was to imply that the three brides were the three Gorgon sisters from Greek mythology. When they first meet Jonathan one of the brides has live snakes entangled in her hair in reference to Medusa.
Ngl, I’m gonna have to say their outfits mislead me to think that’s how Romanian upper class brides dressed in the 1400s 😂, even though I know eiko ishioka (the costume designer) took a lot of creative liberties like how Dracula’s robe looks very Japanese-kabuki influenced and how Lucy is wearing a 1920s bridal cap and a 1500s ruffled collar despite it being the 1890s
I think we all know… who is carrying in this category… The Van Helsing Dracula brides took the graphics/transformations.. and sensual bride vampire fashion to a new level!
The Dimitrescu daughters actually also fall into the blonde, brunette, redhead trope, they're not all blonde (it's hard to tell because they wear such closely hooded cloaks), which actually reinforces the inspiration even more!
I love that the woman playing Verona in Van Helsing met the man playing Dracula on the set and they ended up dating and later getting married. He ( the actor playing Dracula) talks about it in the movie commentary audio track. Man, I love commentary tracks! I wish Netflix would add that option.
Another thing that I love about the 2004 Van Helsing Brides is the vaguely middle eastern harem fashion that that they wear because it’s a veiled reference to the original opponents of IRL Vlad Dracula: the Ottoman Empire.
I personally like the brides from Francis ford Coppola’s Dracula because not only do I think the costumes are beautiful with their head jewelery, but Monica Bellucci is hauntingly gorgeous as a vampire and with the way she acted in the film, it makes me believe that Dolores should have been the main villain in Beetlejuice 2.
They really didn't look the same at all. The Van Helsing Brides were hotter and showed a lot more skin, than the 92 film and Bram Stoker's brides were more monstrous, though obviously still female.
my childhood best friend and I would jump on my trampoline pretending to be the brides from Van Helsing, lol! she would be Verona and I would be Aleera. we loved those fantasy/action movies that came out around that time- Van Helsing, The Brothers Grimm, (akin to that) The Phantom of the Opera. I also loved The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
“The Brides” have always been one of my favorite aspects in Dracula films. I saw Bram Stoker’s Dracula 92 as a kid shortly after it had came out and was pretty obsessed. The brides in this version to me are the most intense and scary, but also my favorite! Van Helsing’s and the invitation’s are probably my second and third ~
i would also like to recommend “Covenant with the Vampire” by Jeanne Kalogridis. it’s a prequel series of 3 books and they spurred my interest in dracula!
I love these ranking lists. Please do a ranking of fictional witches in movies and TV, such as The Halliwells, The Sanderson Sisters, or The Craft Coven.
Great video! Love them in Dracula 2000 their white dresses are iconic and I loveeeee them in Van Helsing. Whoever designed their look in that movie did a great job.
7:22 ‘Jonathan’ (1970) sounds almost like a possible source of inspiration for Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula stories that would come out in the 1980’s to the present day.
I am surprised you focussed on the scariness of the Coppola brides, to me they are very focussed on the sexiness. I like how Harker is so excited by them he ignores the red flags.
The Stoker novel focuses on both aspects of them from Harker’s POV, their sexiness and the fact that they’re rather terrifying as in taking a baby with them for a later meal.
Van Helsing is my favorite movie and I am so excited that you included them in a video! I think their spiritual connection and ability to transform was so cool. Thier outfits sometimes get a bad rap but idk, it feels neat to me when I'm watching it.
"It's almost too much at times" sums up the Coppola movie. I'd read lots about it before hand and was really looking forward to seeing it. It was a disappointment from the very first frame onwards. I know she doesn't count because it wasn't a Dracula movie and there was only one of her, but Kirsten Dunst's turn as Claudia in "Interview with the Vampire" is possibly the best female vampire ever seen. That girl had massive talent.
Regarding the 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula, might the brides have been Byzantian rather than Classical Greek? I think it would fit. Byzantian fashion in the 15th century was still very fancy with styled hair and jeweled hair pieces. They were also a very heavily influenced Greek Hellenic culture and were a prominent empire in Vlad The Impaler's time, with a lot of political influence across Eastern Europe, until they fell to the Turks during Vlad's lifetime. And of course Vlad was famous for fighting the Turks.
You've a pleasant voice and offer excellent analysis of these films. Thanks so much for posting this. And yes, I continue to watch Van Helsing every time it is shown on the SyFy channel.
24:45 “I wish they’d teamed up and killed Dracula” I feel like you would enjoy The Witches and Eastwick. It’s got a very similar ‘three brides’ trope but instead of Dracula it’s the devil.
My favorites were the brides for The Invitation. They breathed some much needed life into the Dracula story, and they were a good mix of beauty, cunning, and headstrong.
I have always found that, of the most modern representations, the most monstrous are the brides of Dracula from 1992 (especially with their very disjointed movements, almost as if two of them were fused together, and with the fact that they drink a child, while their master he grins amused), while strangely the three wives of Van Helsing's Dracula seem more...human, in some ways.
Really came to this video for your opinion on the 1992 brides, I’m glad I’m not the only one who found their animalisticness unsettling and uncanny despite them being sexy, they were like a rabid animal in a human’s body 😭
25:18 I think it's really cool that the most faithful version to the original novel ended up ranking the second-highest. Just goes to show that sometimes the source material itself is stronger than the changes later versions make. And it's especially interesting that sometimes the more modern versions can end up being either flatter and more passive or even more of a sexist stereotype than the Victorian novel's original characters.
I can’t say I have a favorite depiction of the brides since until now the only ones I knew were Satine, Sorci & Poison from the 2011 french musical Dracula l’amour plus fort que la mort (Love stronger than Death). Only depiction with 2 women & 1 men (Sorci. And yes "brides" as characterized that way). Sorci & Poison are closer to the og material & some of the depiction seen here (goofy & childish) but Satine is more mature & the most loyal to Dracula (a whole song just to defend him : Qui peut le juger/Who can judge him). They have a relatively big role in the musical as "Dracula’s voice" since Dracula himself doesn’t talk the whole show (he is mostly a dancer. His dance numbers with Nathalie Fauquette/Mina are so beautiful - I recommend the musical just for that honestly - and Dracula dragon spine 😂). Overall, they are fun and interesting but it’s also my nostalgia speaking (I’ll probably check some of the movies of this list. They seem great !)
Such a wonderful video! Loved the deeper dive into the Brides & I would LOVE to see the pilot show that got killed by the pandemic. Sounds so interesting. So does a version of the story where they all get revenge on Dracula (with maybe sapphic elements). Also, I have so many movies to watch now 😅😹💜 Thanks for this video!
The brides in Van Helsing are easily the best version because of how much agency they have in the story, even if it's nowhere near as much as their husband, Frankenstein, or the Wolf Man. But for me personally, in my own headcanon for Dracula's lore, there is only one woman who can truly be called Dracula's wife, and that is Elizabeth Bathory. Yes, my OTP in vampire lore is Vlad Tepes/Elizabeth Bathory.
Great video!!! I adore the 1977 BBC version for its faithfulness to the source material (which is why I truly loathe the 1992 FFC version). It was so satisfying to see it make the top 3 on your list! The Brides are the perfect balance of beauty and monstrousness; seduction and predatory; loneliness and giddiness. For such a limited budget and effects, this cast and crew went above and beyond to bring the book to life in a way that no other “interpretation” can ever touch! When I’m in the mood for vampire cinema, ‘77 Count Dracula and ‘94 Interview With The Vampire are the only two choices worth sitting down for in my book! Keep doing what you do!
Dracula 2000 was my first experience with any Version and I’ve been in love since. I didn’t watch the 1992 version until about 3 months ago, and I’m still in love with it as well. Those are my picks.
Enjoyed your video! For me, I'd have to say Bram Stokers (1992) set of brides were both the most attracting, and alternately most repulsing (the baby scene), to the various parts of my brain. Subscribed :)
Van Helsing is one of my all time favourite movies. I know it was considered a flop, but it's actual gold. I definitely wanted to be a bride but also Van Helsing
i ALWAYS love to see appreciation for the 1977 BBC adaptation. even if they removed Lucy and Mina's homoeroticism by making them sisters, the rest of the series is so faithful to the soul of the novel and is BEAUTIFUL in a very specific late 70s low budget way that makes it an extremely cozy watch to just have on the tv in the fall.
I think I can agree with these rankings for the most part. I hadn't ever known of the one you made number 2, and never watched The Invitation (though I usually watch most vampire movies, I've been seeing less these past years while I was mostly working/workaholic. You're description of these was pretty spot on, I always loved the Coppala brides growing up until I saw the ones in Van Helsing, I loved those and had wished they didn't kill off Marishka so soon. I'd like to note there was also an episode of Buffy where she met Dracula, Giles and Riley go looking for Buffy to help her and Giles falls into a room with the three brides. There is really all you get to see of the three in that episode as Riley shooos them off and "saves" Giles, they show up a little late to the whole save Buffy thing to find she broke Drac's thrall and stakes him. Was always a little sad they didn't do anything more with the brides in that espisode. I had wanted to like the brides in the Dracula 2000 movie (as I mostly liked it) but like you stated they came off more corny than anything. shrug.
Very good video, I didn't know there were this many versions of the "Brides", but MY favorite trio was from the Novel. Getting into Johnathan's Head as they are seducing Him is very creepy and one of the things you can't visually portray correctly.
There are a lot and I mean a lot of guys that would have let Jeri Ryan in 2000 get close enough to turn them. Can only imagine the Borg turned to Vampire cosplay that happened back then.
Not Grecian...The Brides from Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 adaptation are dressed in Slavic attire consistant with the Transylvanian mythos. One of them may even be a gypsy woman.
some of the headdresses are *vaguely* reminiscent of a kokoshnik but there's nothing else about their outfits that look remotely slavic i.pinimg.com/736x/bb/07/7b/bb077bf08867443da5d615488f6546dd.jpg i.pinimg.com/736x/93/f2/a5/93f2a5ff748620d712949b22212b8753.jpg
You can keep all the brides featured in this video. The pair seen in Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) were beyond gorgeous. "WRONG ME! WRONG ME!! WRONG MY BRAINS OUT!!!"
I'd like to bring up Bela, Cassandra and Daniella Dimestrescu in the Resident Evil: Village game. Not wives of Dracula, but daughters of Lady Dimestrescu (who is Dracula in this case). They carry out the same functions as Dracula's wives would in any form of vampire media. However, they're sisters. I think it's a nice spin on the typical Dracula's wives.
The 1931 Dracula Brides did it for me. They moved in an ethereal manner, and were terrifying for what was implied. They didn’t require lingerie. The flying brides in Van Helsing were awesome from an action standpoint.
Vampires were never allergic to the sun, just more weakened and sleepier. It wasn't until 1922's silent movie "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror", that was because they didn't really have a ending written at that time of filming and they had to quickly wrap it up being that the family of Stoker was suing them for making a movie without their permission! I always thought the brides should have had more stage/film time and wanted to know more about them! I loved the movie "The Invitation" and gave them more personality and a back story! The brides in that movie, Van Helsing and VS Dracula would have gotten more my attention then the Count himself! Lucy and Viktoria in TI I felt bad for to be honest!
This was really interesting, and while I was familiar with quite a few versions and adaptations of the books, this video made me discover new ones, thank you. Surprisingly for someone like me who loves oldities (my favourite screen adaptation of Dracula is Nosferatu 1922, although I like many versions), I'll still stick with the most modern version of those three so far. Meaning my favourite version is the one seen in the video game Resident Evil Village (2021), which showcases a very flamboyant trio. Granted, Dracula doesn't appear in the game, but there are enough parallels between him Lady Dimitrescu to see her as some kind of female version of him, and her three daughters as a version of the three brides. They even kept the hair color code, with Bela, the blonde one, being the oldest and arguably the leader, then the dark-haired Cassandra and the youngest and red-haired Daniela. I thought it was a very nice homage to Dracula and his brides.
I've been under a rock the last few decades, so thanks for letting me know Bela Legosi played Dracula, I'm gonna have to find that. Finally, fuckin finally the song makes perfect sense!
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Fun fact: The actress who played Verona married the actor who played Dracula after they met on the set of Van Helsing. So she really is Dracula's bride (and they have 3 kids now).
And interestingly, Verona being the top bride was actually the way director Stephen Sommers imagined their relationship to Dracula. He's said in behind-the-scenes featurettes that the way he imagined the brides was that Verona was the actual WIFE of Dracula, and Aleera and Marishka were his mistresses.
So Van Helsing failed to stop them having children together after all?
Didnt they get divorce? Because i've listen a rumor like that
@@pinkysqueens8427Apparently they separated for a bit, but worked it out and are still married 😊
Hi guys
I was the young dark haired ( sulky ) bride of Dracula in the BBC 1977 version. My stage name at the time was Susie Hickford. It was very interesting filming with Philip Saville directing. The cast were all so professional and the whole production was meticulous . It's still quite watchable even 47 years later. Thanks for putting us at No.2
Love, Suzy
❤️
Ps. Louis Jordan reeked of garlic during filming. Superstitious? I don't think so. It had more to do with him being French perhaps.
bite me.. please :)
capping hard.
@@gurdjieff9282 wtf does that mean?
@@mmm-mmm you live in a cave?
@@gurdjieff9282 no, i just don't live in the ghetto....
Yes, "Van Helsing" was my favourite depiction of Dracula's Brides, and they really got time to shine. I'd love to see them in a prequel film, showing their origins before they met Dracula.
I agree, they were a highlight of the otherwise mediocre film (although Silvestri's soundtrack was good too).
But I think the scariest depiction was the 1931 film, they have a creepiness you don't see nowadays outside of j-horror.
The way me and my friends are gonna be Dracula’s wives from Van Helsing for Halloween
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that's one of my dream cosplays
Yeeees!!! Amazing!
Love it❤
Will you be turning anyone...?
The Grecian costuming of the brides in Coppola's Dracula was to imply that the three brides were the three Gorgon sisters from Greek mythology. When they first meet Jonathan one of the brides has live snakes entangled in her hair in reference to Medusa.
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I always wondered if that was the case
That's a pretty cool reference
Yes yes that’s what I love about it! So unique and some of my favorite literary characters.
Ngl, I’m gonna have to say their outfits mislead me to think that’s how Romanian upper class brides dressed in the 1400s 😂, even though I know eiko ishioka (the costume designer) took a lot of creative liberties like how Dracula’s robe looks very Japanese-kabuki influenced and how Lucy is wearing a 1920s bridal cap and a 1500s ruffled collar despite it being the 1890s
Yep, I think one of them in the film has a scar of impalement on her body. Suggesting she was turned in the 1400's when Dracula was the impaled..
I think we all know… who is carrying in this category… The Van Helsing Dracula brides took the graphics/transformations.. and sensual bride vampire fashion to a new level!
ssshhhh i’m watching it
You forget..They are the Brides of Dracula.
Honestly The Brides are probably my favorite part of VanHelsing
I wish they'd gotten more screentime
I also found them better villains than Dracula...they were kinda like a pride of lions where the females did most of the work.
@gildatheplant
That is perfectly put
They did get their screentime.
That's why they're favorites now.
@@personaldove
MORE screentime is what I said
That title is wild😂
I always thought those blonde girls from resident evil village (Bela, Daniela, and Cassandra Dimitrescu) must be inspired by them
The Dimitrescu daughters actually also fall into the blonde, brunette, redhead trope, they're not all blonde (it's hard to tell because they wear such closely hooded cloaks), which actually reinforces the inspiration even more!
I wasn't expecting to learn of a bunch of adaptations I wasn't aware of. Great video.
I love that the woman playing Verona in Van Helsing met the man playing Dracula on the set and they ended up dating and later getting married. He ( the actor playing Dracula) talks about it in the movie commentary audio track. Man, I love commentary tracks! I wish Netflix would add that option.
Another thing that I love about the 2004 Van Helsing Brides is the vaguely middle eastern harem fashion that that they wear because it’s a veiled reference to the original opponents of IRL Vlad Dracula: the Ottoman Empire.
I personally like the brides from Francis ford Coppola’s Dracula because not only do I think the costumes are beautiful with their head jewelery, but Monica Bellucci is hauntingly gorgeous as a vampire and with the way she acted in the film, it makes me believe that Dolores should have been the main villain in Beetlejuice 2.
The brides in Van Hesling were definitely one of my first bisexual awaking. That and Kate Beckinsale
Hell ya. Me too.
*They and Kate Beckinsale
@@fran3ro no, I meant that, as in that movie not a person
@@cloeshay87 Ok. Sorry.
Kate Beckinsale in Underworld is just WOW
the 92`s Bram Stoker`s Dracula brides were so iconic that they influenced the Van Helssing ones, since they looked almost the same!
Monica Belluci...yes please.
They really didn't look the same at all. The Van Helsing Brides were hotter and showed a lot more skin, than the 92 film and Bram Stoker's brides were more monstrous, though obviously still female.
@@Thurgosh_OG i think you mean they're more obviously women. female monsters are a thing
my childhood best friend and I would jump on my trampoline pretending to be the brides from Van Helsing, lol! she would be Verona and I would be Aleera. we loved those fantasy/action movies that came out around that time- Van Helsing, The Brothers Grimm, (akin to that) The Phantom of the Opera. I also loved The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
If you like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, then you should definitely read the book.
“The Brides” have always been one of my favorite aspects in Dracula films. I saw Bram Stoker’s Dracula 92 as a kid shortly after it had came out and was pretty obsessed. The brides in this version to me are the most intense and scary, but also my favorite! Van Helsing’s and the invitation’s are probably my second and third ~
"Wrong me! Wrong me! Wrong my brains out!" - Dracula Dead and Loving it
What ARE you doing to the furniture?
omg the Van Helsing's brides were my gay awakening when I was a kid LOL
The Van Helsing wives are my favorites too. I really like that movie, it's a lot of fun.
Same. Especially the redhead.
@@jonathanspivey437 That's Elena Anaya.
She played Doctor Poison in Wonder Woman.
@@personaldove wow, she really looks different in the two movies.
The book A Dowry of Blood is from the brides' perspective, and it's wonderful!
i would also like to recommend “Covenant with the Vampire” by Jeanne Kalogridis. it’s a prequel series of 3 books and they spurred my interest in dracula!
I love these ranking lists. Please do a ranking of fictional witches in movies and TV, such as The Halliwells, The Sanderson Sisters, or The Craft Coven.
Great video! Love them in Dracula 2000 their white dresses are iconic and I loveeeee them in Van Helsing. Whoever designed their look in that movie did a great job.
The Van Hasan vampire brides from 2004 is so iconic. I love them.
the brides had been my favorite to watch in every version. should have been a great clue i was not heterosexual 😅
I clicked on this video KNOWING Van Helsing would be #1 and I was not disappointed
7:22 ‘Jonathan’ (1970) sounds almost like a possible source of inspiration for Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula stories that would come out in the 1980’s to the present day.
I am surprised you focussed on the scariness of the Coppola brides, to me they are very focussed on the sexiness. I like how Harker is so excited by them he ignores the red flags.
The Stoker novel focuses on both aspects of them from Harker’s POV, their sexiness and the fact that they’re rather terrifying as in taking a baby with them for a later meal.
dracula from 1931 is so visually stunning and HEAVILY queer coded! i'm glad you're bringing it up
I agree with you I love classic movies from the golden era of Hollywood
The Hays Code came into effect in 1934 so this ‘31 version could be a bit more overt in its sexuality either same sex or opposite.
I’d let them all turn me ngl
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correct response 💪💪💪
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Brides #1 ranking didn't fail. That film is iconic, that cgi holdsup still
Van Helsing is my favorite movie and I am so excited that you included them in a video! I think their spiritual connection and ability to transform was so cool. Thier outfits sometimes get a bad rap but idk, it feels neat to me when I'm watching it.
"It's almost too much at times" sums up the Coppola movie. I'd read lots about it before hand and was really looking forward to seeing it. It was a disappointment from the very first frame onwards. I know she doesn't count because it wasn't a Dracula movie and there was only one of her, but Kirsten Dunst's turn as Claudia in "Interview with the Vampire" is possibly the best female vampire ever seen. That girl had massive talent.
Regarding the 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula, might the brides have been Byzantian rather than Classical Greek? I think it would fit. Byzantian fashion in the 15th century was still very fancy with styled hair and jeweled hair pieces. They were also a very heavily influenced Greek Hellenic culture and were a prominent empire in Vlad The Impaler's time, with a lot of political influence across Eastern Europe, until they fell to the Turks during Vlad's lifetime. And of course Vlad was famous for fighting the Turks.
I thought the same thing. Their headdresses look Byzantine to me.
You've a pleasant voice and offer excellent analysis of these films. Thanks so much for posting this. And yes, I continue to watch Van Helsing every time it is shown on the SyFy channel.
24:45 “I wish they’d teamed up and killed Dracula” I feel like you would enjoy The Witches and Eastwick. It’s got a very similar ‘three brides’ trope but instead of Dracula it’s the devil.
Van Helsing (2004) being #1 EXCEPTIONAL!
My favorites were the brides for The Invitation. They breathed some much needed life into the Dracula story, and they were a good mix of beauty, cunning, and headstrong.
I have always found that, of the most modern representations, the most monstrous are the brides of Dracula from 1992 (especially with their very disjointed movements, almost as if two of them were fused together, and with the fact that they drink a child, while their master he grins amused), while strangely the three wives of Van Helsing's Dracula seem more...human, in some ways.
Really came to this video for your opinion on the 1992 brides, I’m glad I’m not the only one who found their animalisticness unsettling and uncanny despite them being sexy, they were like a rabid animal in a human’s body 😭
They should really do a dark-comedy based on Dracula’s wives.
25:18 I think it's really cool that the most faithful version to the original novel ended up ranking the second-highest. Just goes to show that sometimes the source material itself is stronger than the changes later versions make. And it's especially interesting that sometimes the more modern versions can end up being either flatter and more passive or even more of a sexist stereotype than the Victorian novel's original characters.
I can’t say I have a favorite depiction of the brides since until now the only ones I knew were Satine, Sorci & Poison from the 2011 french musical Dracula l’amour plus fort que la mort (Love stronger than Death). Only depiction with 2 women & 1 men (Sorci. And yes "brides" as characterized that way). Sorci & Poison are closer to the og material & some of the depiction seen here (goofy & childish) but Satine is more mature & the most loyal to Dracula (a whole song just to defend him : Qui peut le juger/Who can judge him). They have a relatively big role in the musical as "Dracula’s voice" since Dracula himself doesn’t talk the whole show (he is mostly a dancer. His dance numbers with Nathalie Fauquette/Mina are so beautiful - I recommend the musical just for that honestly - and Dracula dragon spine 😂). Overall, they are fun and interesting but it’s also my nostalgia speaking (I’ll probably check some of the movies of this list. They seem great !)
Me i personally loved Dracula from the 1930's with bela lugosi he did a marvelous job as Dracula and captured Dracula marvelously.
Let's admit it, the 3 brides in Van Helsing were probably among our first movie crushes ever, especially Aleera.
Girl when I tell you for like the past 6 months ur vids have been BANGERS ( they were still tea before that tho❤)
Such a wonderful video! Loved the deeper dive into the Brides & I would LOVE to see the pilot show that got killed by the pandemic. Sounds so interesting. So does a version of the story where they all get revenge on Dracula (with maybe sapphic elements).
Also, I have so many movies to watch now 😅😹💜
Thanks for this video!
The brides in Van Helsing are easily the best version because of how much agency they have in the story, even if it's nowhere near as much as their husband, Frankenstein, or the Wolf Man. But for me personally, in my own headcanon for Dracula's lore, there is only one woman who can truly be called Dracula's wife, and that is Elizabeth Bathory. Yes, my OTP in vampire lore is Vlad Tepes/Elizabeth Bathory.
I agree, those two were made for each other. 😏😌
Great video!!! I adore the 1977 BBC version for its faithfulness to the source material (which is why I truly loathe the 1992 FFC version). It was so satisfying to see it make the top 3 on your list! The Brides are the perfect balance of beauty and monstrousness; seduction and predatory; loneliness and giddiness. For such a limited budget and effects, this cast and crew went above and beyond to bring the book to life in a way that no other “interpretation” can ever touch! When I’m in the mood for vampire cinema, ‘77 Count Dracula and ‘94 Interview With The Vampire are the only two choices worth sitting down for in my book! Keep doing what you do!
Dracula 2000 was my first experience with any Version and I’ve been in love since. I didn’t watch the 1992 version until about 3 months ago, and I’m still in love with it as well. Those are my picks.
Enjoyed your video! For me, I'd have to say Bram Stokers (1992) set of brides were both the most attracting, and alternately most repulsing (the baby scene), to the various parts of my brain. Subscribed :)
Love it, Stephen.
Van Helsing is one of my all time favourite movies. I know it was considered a flop, but it's actual gold. I definitely wanted to be a bride but also Van Helsing
i ALWAYS love to see appreciation for the 1977 BBC adaptation. even if they removed Lucy and Mina's homoeroticism by making them sisters, the rest of the series is so faithful to the soul of the novel and is BEAUTIFUL in a very specific late 70s low budget way that makes it an extremely cozy watch to just have on the tv in the fall.
I think I can agree with these rankings for the most part. I hadn't ever known of the one you made number 2, and never watched The Invitation (though I usually watch most vampire movies, I've been seeing less these past years while I was mostly working/workaholic. You're description of these was pretty spot on, I always loved the Coppala brides growing up until I saw the ones in Van Helsing, I loved those and had wished they didn't kill off Marishka so soon. I'd like to note there was also an episode of Buffy where she met Dracula, Giles and Riley go looking for Buffy to help her and Giles falls into a room with the three brides. There is really all you get to see of the three in that episode as Riley shooos them off and "saves" Giles, they show up a little late to the whole save Buffy thing to find she broke Drac's thrall and stakes him. Was always a little sad they didn't do anything more with the brides in that espisode. I had wanted to like the brides in the Dracula 2000 movie (as I mostly liked it) but like you stated they came off more corny than anything. shrug.
Very good video, I didn't know there were this many versions of the "Brides", but MY favorite trio was from the Novel. Getting into Johnathan's Head as they are seducing Him is very creepy and one of the things you can't visually portray correctly.
There are a lot and I mean a lot of guys that would have let Jeri Ryan in 2000 get close enough to turn them. Can only imagine the Borg turned to Vampire cosplay that happened back then.
Idc what anyone says they were all too good for Dracula sorryyy 💕💕
i highly recommend reading the great A Dowry In Blood by S.T. Gibson, "the gothic, seductive tale of Dracula's first bride, Constanta"
Coppola's is still one of my favorites - so beautiful and visually atmospheric
Bro I LOVED the brides from Van Helsing
The title ate
Very entertaining!! Big thanks!! The Hot Brides from 1.18 - 1.20 are Clip From Dracula Dead And Loving It 🧛♀🧛♀
Ahhh there is a special place in my heart for Van Helsing 💖
Not Grecian...The Brides from Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 adaptation are dressed in Slavic attire consistant with the Transylvanian mythos. One of them may even be a gypsy woman.
some of the headdresses are *vaguely* reminiscent of a kokoshnik but there's nothing else about their outfits that look remotely slavic
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Adding this to the list of videos I didn't know I wanted but am glad I watched. I didn't know about any of these!
I'm living for this ❤
You can keep all the brides featured in this video. The pair seen in Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) were beyond gorgeous. "WRONG ME! WRONG ME!! WRONG MY BRAINS OUT!!!"
I knew van helsing would be number one! That is still one of my favorite movies❤
ur so real for this
I didn't know I need this. More like ranking dracula’s brides based on how quickly they’d turn me ON ayeeeeeeeeeee
I agree about the outfits in the 1977 film - all beautiful
respect for such a thirsty title ! 🩸🧛♀
I have to agree that van helsing movie, made the best brides and bram stokes Dracula 1992 is up ther as well. 🧛
Dang, The Brides looks really good.
Anyways my pick would be 1992's Dracula imo
Had no idea that a show about Dracula's brides was filmed by abc.
ABC sucks tho.
I'd like to bring up Bela, Cassandra and Daniella Dimestrescu in the Resident Evil: Village game. Not wives of Dracula, but daughters of Lady Dimestrescu (who is Dracula in this case).
They carry out the same functions as Dracula's wives would in any form of vampire media. However, they're sisters.
I think it's a nice spin on the typical Dracula's wives.
Your top pick is not a surprise 😂 basically everyone would pick Van Helsings 3 brides, I love them so much 😭
My favorite take on a bride might be Duke from Bit; a bride of "Vlad" who usurps his position after the brides turn on him.
The 1931 Dracula Brides did it for me. They moved in an ethereal manner, and were terrifying for what was implied. They didn’t require lingerie. The flying brides in Van Helsing were awesome from an action standpoint.
Vampires were never allergic to the sun, just more weakened and sleepier. It wasn't until 1922's silent movie "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror", that was because they didn't really have a ending written at that time of filming and they had to quickly wrap it up being that the family of Stoker was suing them for making a movie without their permission!
I always thought the brides should have had more stage/film time and wanted to know more about them! I loved the movie "The Invitation" and gave them more personality and a back story! The brides in that movie, Van Helsing and VS Dracula would have gotten more my attention then the Count himself! Lucy and Viktoria in TI I felt bad for to be honest!
Definite props for including Monster Squad, an oft overlooked gem of a movie.
So glad this was done by a female creator, you focus more on their personalities than just looks
The Monica Belucci bride tops them all. It would be....oh go on then 😉
Really didn’t expect a fashion channel to cook so well for Halloween.
I think my favorite version of the brides are the ones from Count Dracula 1977.
Van Helsing appreciation 🫶🏻♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Aleera was my girl crush growing up
Who does the brides laundry?!? Like all those blood stains !!
They must have the best bleach that money can buy. Or maybe baking soda. 😅
Top 3 brides: Monster Squad; Dracula 2 (Gerard Butler's vampire) and Bram Stoker's Dracula. I liked Van Helsing's brides but only Marshika
you're so real for this
I totally agree about a tv show or movie dedicated to these characters, I'm sold
As a teenager, I thought the reverse cranked shot of the brides in Dracula 2000 was a very cool effect.
This was really interesting, and while I was familiar with quite a few versions and adaptations of the books, this video made me discover new ones, thank you.
Surprisingly for someone like me who loves oldities (my favourite screen adaptation of Dracula is Nosferatu 1922, although I like many versions), I'll still stick with the most modern version of those three so far. Meaning my favourite version is the one seen in the video game Resident Evil Village (2021), which showcases a very flamboyant trio. Granted, Dracula doesn't appear in the game, but there are enough parallels between him Lady Dimitrescu to see her as some kind of female version of him, and her three daughters as a version of the three brides. They even kept the hair color code, with Bela, the blonde one, being the oldest and arguably the leader, then the dark-haired Cassandra and the youngest and red-haired Daniela. I thought it was a very nice homage to Dracula and his brides.
I love Verona in Van Helsing. Her look was just breathtaking, and it was no wonder Dracula married her in real life.
Oh my God! This was a fun video!
Van Helsing's brides were so cvnty
Kinda hard to compete with Geri Ryan and Jennifer Esposito.
Too bad you didn’t get to do the brides from the Mel Brooks movie Dead and Loving it. Very funny scene.
I've been under a rock the last few decades, so thanks for letting me know Bela Legosi played Dracula, I'm gonna have to find that. Finally, fuckin finally the song makes perfect sense!
Jeri Ryan as a vampire changed something in me.