Does anyone know where the line "and STAY dead!" came from? I was told it was from the first Dracula movie from 1931, but I downloaded the movie and could not find it there.
This has been bugging me for a while so figured I'd try if someone here knows (tried other sources of info, even downloaded the original movie with no luck).
I understand why they had to shoot it they way they did, producing during COVID seems like it would have been a nightmare, but there were far too many times when a character would be talking to another character and effectively just go full soliloquy and it really killed the pacing for me.
This was my only real gripe with it. I love a good monologue, but I actually found myself fast-forwarding through the one halfway through (where they talk about death). It honestly felt like they just kept going around in circles.
So yeah I definitely get it, and I wish the writer would have edited himself a bit more.
I agree with GP that the show has an extremely interesting take on the core ideas, but I think the execution falters slightly, especially in the last couple of episodes. The characters started doing some fairly silly things, and I also don't like that they gave up completely on the science-investigation angle they had going. They had some interesting players set up against one another with the infighting among the vampires, and then the sheriff, and the main woman character, but then in the end they basically wasted it all by relying almost entirely on the vampires screwing up massively for no reason in order to end the story. Not to mention the fact that surely there must have still been a couple of things left here and there for the vampires to hide from the sun behind.
I'd been a fan of the creator since his first Netflix show (The Haunting of Hill House). I honestly liked Hill House more, it's a beautiful story if you haven't seen it.
I never understood the appeal of Helsing Ultimate over the original - the original was very stylish and interesting, but it seems like someone asked 'how can we make this bigger?' and the answer turned out to be 'yes' and thus Ultimate was born?
Since other commenters are talking about vampire movies and not limiting themselves specifically to Dracula pictures, allow me to recommend Near Dark (1987).
Dracula isn't even Latin. It's Slavic declension. His father was Dracul (Dragon), from Emperor Sigismund's Order of the Dragon and he's son of Dracul - syn Dracula.
The Slavic languages, of course, have their own declension patterns, although a common masculine suffix is -y or -i which brings us back to the original Draculi (!).
I have to say that I was impressed by this article. Not only did Mattison get #1 correct, but every single Dracula that I was thinking, I’ll bet she missed ⸻, there it was. Buffy vs Dracula? On the list. Nosferatu? On the list. Well, if you’ve got Nosferatu do you have the remake? Of course. And Shadow of the Vampire? What kind of fool do you think I am?
The Jess Franco Dracula was missing, although I am not surprised. It is a remarkably unmemorable film, especially for Franco. It felt as if someone was had described the plot of some book about these fictional blood sucking creatures, and one was named "Dracula," and then you got some people who had never heard of vampires or anything like that to stage a production.
Also, Love at First Bite is missing. "Children of the night ... SHUT UP!"
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"It's one of those days I wish I was dead, and stayed dead"
https://youtu.be/5YTfHHWlsDU?t=1338
So yeah I definitely get it, and I wish the writer would have edited himself a bit more.
Haha
ultimate was seemingly made to appease that fan-base while opening the door to more marketable goods and characters.
I like things from both of them. The original soundtrack was killer.
The soundtrack was indeed fantastic - one of my favourite anime series all round.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093605/
Joota (shoe) — Joote (shoes)
There is a universe where Lugosi is better than Lee; just not this one.
https://draculatheme.com/
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Also, Love at First Bite is missing. "Children of the night ... SHUT UP!"
tl;dr: 1 is Bela Lugosi.
But sadly, Bela Lugosi's dead.