Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.”

There are very few horror movies that boast huge names 0 both ing acting and directing – that can pull off a beautiful romance that tugs at one of the very cores of horror viewers.

Is our very nature damned? Dracula’s blood lust and eternal life stem from his defiance of Christianity when he sees false promises and vows that his very existence will show immortality as a sort of proof against God. But all that rage and hate come from the loss of this true love.

Does love defy the laws of science and faith alike? Is it possible to find love over the spans of time?

While killing and drinking blood, of course.

To me, this movie has come the closest to the Stoker novel, telling the story from the views of various characters. In fact, if you realize that Stoker’s novel is journal entries, it almost makes it like the first found footage work.

The story of Dracula asks us to question what it is we truly hold sacred. Is it the confines of a religious doctrine or is it the love we feel deep within our soul?

SPOILERS FROM THIS POIT

Is Dracula’s death really a death? Or is it the final release from the prison of rage and hatred he felt for the loss of his princess?