Why are there so many Draculas

I have heard and see stories and movies either related or about Dracula, but I haven’t until this class actually read the novel Dracula. From what I have heard and see from both experiences prior to the novel, the legend of Dracula has been around for a while and is continuously being retold and changed like many other well know stories throughout history. Whether it is Romeo and Julie, Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Homes, and many others that still peeks the reader’s and audience’s interest and imagination. These stories have certainly peeked my interest and imagination. My favorites have been Sherlock Homes and so far, Dracula as well.

Dracula was indeed a spooky for the first four chapters and continues to do so. Then again, what is there anything about Dracula that isn’t spooky. Despite the different versions of Dracula, some common themes and characteristics remain purity much the same. His desire and need for human blood, his scary appears from his sharp teeth and tall, shadowy, undead like figure. And of course, his and other vampire’s weaknesses, from sunlight, crosses, etc. There are differences in the look and appearances whether it is seeing him on a video screen or imaging him as you read. In the 1931 Dracula and in the 1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948, he is in the time-period of the 1930’s and 1940’s and dressed in the typical with black and white suite rather than just the black cape.

My favorite versions of Dracula are from the movies Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948, mostly because I grew up watch the comedies of Abbott and Costello films. But for the more actions packed ones are Van Helsing 2004 and Dracula Untold. Both did a good job of maintaining the well-known characteristics and look of Dracula, but also did well in changing some things about him, but for the most part, the story he is involved in. In most stories, Dracula is portrait as the villain and Van Helsing is the hunter that fights against him, as well as, in the novel in our reading. I liked how in Dracula untold, it puts him on a more human part of him and a good side to him as well. Regardless on how the story of Dracula, which is mostly based on fiction, changes from version to version. It continues to interest the spooky and horror of the audience’s imagination.