Halloween Special: Dracula 

Explain a [plot, movie, book] poorly! I love those. Either I recognize it and get to feel good, or I don't and it's funny.

@@mirjanbouma My favorite one of those is "Batteries go BAD." (hint: Keanu Reeves)

@@erinfinn2273 omg that has to be the Matrix 😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@@erinfinn2273 woohoo! 😁

Here’s another one Rich billionaire realizes he’s a jerk so he resorts to police brutality

Amazing

That's hungarian right?

Ana Nic it looks like it!

@@anastasianicolaenco4476 It is Hungarian, yes

@@alduril2882 oh yeah I think this story happened back when transylvania was still under Hungarian occupation

I agree. Not only are those adaptations missing out on a truly heartwarming and interesting couple, but the adaptations that ship Mina and Dracula are honestly rather vile for doing so considering that, in the book, Dracula attacking Mina and draining her blood is a very blunt rape allegory; how does someone read a book where a predatory sociopath attacks a happily married woman and think that the movie adaptation should ship the happily married woman with the predatory sociopath?

I mean I don't think Johnathan Harker was all too interesting as a character in the book, but the one consistent trait he had is how much he adores Mina. Its basically his one defining character trait, so its weird to think this trait is sort of ignored when it was basically the thing that defined his character.

@@R0-83-RT We're gonna have to agree to disagree on whether or not Jonathan is interesting, since I personally find him actually one of the more interesting characters in the book, especially with how his PTSD is portrayed. But yeah, it makes zero sense for him to not love Mina in any adaptation, and vice versa, since she loves him just as vocally in her entries.

@@limit1770 THANK YOU for not thinking Jonathan is boring! I've loved Jonathan and Mina as a couple since I first read the novel in my teens. I dislike/hate all the inaccurate movie adaptations as a result.

Also Dracula, like, essentially rapes Mina.... How is shipping a rapist with his victim a good thing?

Never forget what we lost those extra 17+ minutes of vampire stuff

@@whinycat4438 Maybe we'll get a general vampire folklore review this October?

@@timothymclean don’t do that don’t give me hope

I wanna see that extended one

OMG GUYS ITS HAPPENING

I did that too when they threw his box out of the carriage at the end. Don't know why, just found it funny xd

*_B O N K_*

Good to hear I’m not the only one amused by Loony Toons slapstick in horror

@@jen.kj7 Fire and Ice

good job comment for making me wheeze like a banshee before i even watched the vid

1&2: basically victorian England. 3: OMG SHE'S A MARY SUE, CRUCIFY HER!

@@DeHerg I don't think that 1 is just Victorian England. You notice a similar thing in Civil War letters in the US.

Mina WAS amazing. She rose above the constraints placed on her gender and still kicked ass

The English in this book is very weird to read for someone like me who is very new to old novels for instance "Ahh I see you have made it to my castle, before dinner would you like to do toilet?" (Paraphrasing here) that threw me of a bit because it seemed kinda funny to me. And reading the dialogue from characters like Van Helsing and the cockney old englishmen was super hard.

Bram Stoker was apparently a self-hating homosexual working through some things while desperately trying to repress them; of course sexiness was evil and his main villain's most developed attraction is to a man.

It's quite accurate to the book; where the rest of the men want to leave Mina out of the Dracula hunt for sexist reasons, John only agrees because he doesn't want his wife to go through the horrors he went through, and even then, he starts thinking that leaving her out might be a bad idea; part of him can't help but feel that leaving her out will backfire (and that part of his mind is proven correct when it does indeed backfire horribly).

It feels like they're kinda projecting their love and grief over Lucy onto Mine and want to double down on protecting and keeping her safe since they failed with Lucy. Then Johnathan's just straight up DONE with being in Bram Stoker's novel and doesn't want anyone to ever experience ANY of the hell he had to go through just to keep his job/get a permanent promotion (his boss dies at some point and leaves John and Mina all his stuff including the business cause they're his surragate kids and he wants to set them up for life), and marry the love of his life. He straight up has a panic attack when he sees young Dracula walking around the city and Mina helps him through it. This is what makes her think she should really read his diary, when they got married she sealed the bag/wrapping it with wax that she stamped with her wedding and engagement rings becuase she knew that if it affected John enough to have brianfever for like a solid month and a half, it was pretty messed up and that he needed some reassurance that she loved him regardless of how much of his life he's shared with her.

@@matthewmuir8884 She's a schoolteacher. What could a schoolteacher contribute to hunting a monster?

@@liamjm9278 For just one example: be able to correctly recognize the signs that she was being targeted by said monster. In the book, because she was left out, she didn't realize her symptoms were from Dracula biting her until the night that Dracula force-feeds her some of his blood.

@@matthewmuir8884 She wasn't left out. She was there at the meeting and contributed to it. She even directly helped Hellsing whilst he was explaining everything by acting as a secretary. It's even her journal entry that records this meeting. She knows as much about Vampires as they do. They just didn't want her to come along when they did the hunting part. Would you bring your small schooltecher along to hunt a grizzly bear with magic powers, armed with melee weapons and a pistol? You haven't read the book; don't pretend you have. I've read that chapter last week so it's fresh in my mind.

Written Footage Horror. B)

I thought the same thing!

Hey, you’re right! Cool!

Oh my gosh- you’re totally right

"Found Manuscript Horror."

I actually heard this one too! Though in Middle Eastern culture, it is more common to use uncooked rice, grain or lentils

Are you sure it was introduced in later interpretations? I thought it was in older Eastern European lore.

I remember they highlighted this on an episode of The X-Files

vamps are a fucking joke arent thaey

w h a t

*run*

"We keep ourselves young" Now that's a comeback.

I’d wear a cross necklace Put some holy water in your water bottle Eat plenty of garlic

Ah

Vampires are endangered because everyone likes garlic bread

you mean in the book itself or adaptations?

@@floricel_112 Adaptations

Indeed. I think my personal reading on him over the novel might have been influenced by a certain other Jonathan who faced a vampire in England, but he’s a good dude.

@@Tortferngatr **

@@Attaxalotl Jojo Part 1 is a Dracula reference. (…seriously, though, Jonathan’s name probably is a reference to Dracula.)

like that 6 degrees of separation theory lol

Count Dracula’s secret identity: Kevin Bacon.

Dracula: "So what does that make us?" Johnathan: "Absolutely nothing! Which is what you are about to become!!"

​​@@legomaniac213 I see your schwartz is as big has mine

That was confusing to read.

EVERYTHING IS FINE 🙂

Giving her a nerd hobby adds so much to her character

As a model train enthuiast, I support this.

she actually bought that Lots and Lots of Trains book series from the infomercial as a child

mina: i am the train fiend, fiend of trains lucy: dracula quivers before her! mina with a cross: *fuck off!*

That's the face everyone has made at some point in our lives. XD

nice to meet you in the digital flesh, Dr Bright. how are things at the S.C.P foundation?

Your not allowed to post on RU-vid Dr Bright

I would like to know what song did they use for that

I think the only funnier one i can think of is "mysterious colors etc etc"

That’s a raw fuckin line

i almost hear snark in that line. then again, i hear snark in everything. maybe i should not be trusted to judge this.

Ahh AVH is dutch, even better than when they are depicted as german

This is paraphrased, but my favourite Van Helsing quote comes from when Lucy is slowly dying, “Why is it that Methuselah lives 900 years, but Lucy cannot live one night with the blood of four men in her!”

Mina:

And apparently it's GREAT. Better than the original is arguable, but it's apparently an absolutely fantastic rendition of the vampire story in general.

How is it different?

@@DimaJeydar It's literally not even the same story. The guy threw out the original and wrote his own. It's hilarious.

@@StellaStarfallcould you give me the name of this version if it‘s still available?

​@@fabianschobinger2765It was published in English as "Power of Darkness: The lost version of Dracula"

R/entitledparents

Anti-Vacc^^

Rabijeel Anti Mask*

Fricking Karen

All of the above and more....unfortunately.

Sara Johnsson lol then she goes back tho

Sara Johnsson to be fair she was covering five stories XD

Growth!

I am the one that made 999 into 1k so np

I would definitely watch your half-hour Dracula video.

He was in the 90s Coppola movie

@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Played by Billy Campbell, no less.

Also, the BBC "Count Dracula" had a kinda-sorta version of Quincy mashed up with Arthur as a character called "Quincy Harwood."

@Will Frank point is Coppola had the actual character he even kept the honor of Dracula's heart stab

The new renfield movie has a nod to Quincy with one of the main characters literally being called officer Quincy.

In the actual text the suitor squad have been friends for years. And then Jonathan is also on the roundtrip I guess

So, Saiyuki, but it's victorian vampires instead of _Journey to the West,_ and with one female main character? xD

Does jojo count? Cuz the entire plot of stardust crusaders is cuz Suzy caught mysterious fainting women disease.

@@dragenfire68 _Yare, yare daze._

Holly, not Suzy. But yeah, part 3 is actually somewhat inspired by Dracula. Considering how much of a senile imbecile Dio is in SDC, he is rather similar to the book Count. A far cry from the awesome Kurt Barlow figure he was in Part 1....

Fit for any orgy

It's also super thematically relevant! Like, various forms of true love are central to the book. The vampire women who serve Dracula openly mock him for being unable to love. Dracula's inability to love and inability to perceive or value a difference between love and lust is in thematic contrast with the sincere love shared by the group of friends that defeat him, and in particular with the healthy and mutually respectful relationship between the Harkers. (There is a slight homophobic tinge to it, as Dracula, coded as unable to feel _real_ love, only ever implies current romantic interest in one person and that's Jonathan (despite attacking the women around him instead). But... Stoker was a self-hating gay man working through some things, soooo...

That’s the kind of character relationships I love

That makes me think of a version of the story where they're all highschoolers who've been friends since childhood. Idk maybe there's something there

@@delcidkidv250 That sounds awesome! I really want that adaptation now.

... why was Ed Sheeran more right about vampires in a music video than 99% of vampire adaptations

I'll be honest, I was completely surprised that being affected by sunlight wasn't a vampire weakness that originated from Dracula. Before reading it, I always thought that was the case. Even when I watched the movie adaptation, I thought they were just taking liberties with an old character.

@41217beingbored Up until I read the book I was in the same boat.

I imagine if dracula gets cut he starts desparately drinking it back up to keep it in.

he's a very underrated character and deserved more screen time !!!

someone please make an adaptation where he survives turned into a vampire or zombie or something and joins Hellsing in the hunt of vampires now with EVEN MORE EXAGERATED strength(?

Someone said that the book isn't politically correct enough to be adapted faithfully in modern day. I think a film studio should just not care, make the film, and cast Chris Pratt as Quincy for good measure. After thinking that, I really want to see it.

@@maucazalv903 I've actually thought about this and imagined a scenario where Helsing resurrects Quincy as a Jiangshi, the least involved Necromancy form he knows of, for the purpose of Lucy survived, he's struggling to kill her again, and needs to keep her occupied while he finds a solution. And of course it helps to have the extra muscle when fighting vampires.

Squirrely Studios lol. My exact thought the first time I saw this video. And no I am not watching this for the 100’th time...

You guys are both seriously disappointed/upset that they haven’t been turned gay?

The Old Shoes not really disappointed or upset. More of a “hey wouldn’t it be cool if these people were happily married back then even though it wasn’t allowed back then.”

Ahh... well that’s most definitely understandable. I dislike absolutes, people that claim to hold a perfect truth should (and damn well better) be able to explain such. Thanks for the response.

@@theshoes7488 here is an absolute. Objects are gravitationally attracted to the strongest gravitational force affecting said object.

I'm sure the reason she didn't record the half hour summary is because that is more time needed to draw more panels. which is what takes up most of the time between videos.

I would also accept pure audio

orangemanatee39 well it wouldn't be an OSP video without red's drawings.

Me to

This is an amazing summary. And you're absolutely right. It's the structure of the novel that makes it so effective.

I want to write a screenplay for a modern Bram Stoker’s Dracula where everyone is modern except for Dracula and Quincey Motherf-ing Morris. I want him to continue to be a 19th century American written by someone who has never actually spoken to an American. I want him to continue to make up words that sound kind of American. I want him to still use words that make no sense in the context and I want his dialect to continue to swing wildly and violently back and forth between cowboy hick and schooled gentleman. I want the rest of the posey to just go along with it because that’s just Quincey, and I want the only person to be bothered by it to be Dracula himself. He’s an immortal being. It makes sense he speaks that way, but why is this strange man claiming to be from America despite sounding like his only exposure to American culture was from watching cowboy movies and trying to extrapolate what the upper class must sound like speaking in such a manner? It disturbs the Count so much that halfway through the movie he just straight up stops preying on women to find out what the hell is happening

Neat

The more I learn about Theodore Roosevelt, the cooler he becomes. PS: The man hated being called Teddy, he preferred Theodore or TR.

Well, that explains it...if you only had Teddy MUTHERFUCKING ROOSEVELT TO GO OFF OF i would think we were superheroes too.

Stoker was Henry Irving's personal assistant; he had a theatrical background. He was playing to, and/or exploiting, theatrical stereotypes.

My favorite part is basically “oh here buy house”

Don't you just love how Coppola's film completely deflates the horror of the situation by having Gary Old Man tell Keanu "Perhaps you should grow a beard...?"

@@willmfrank It certainly wasn't as funny as it was in the book. Gary Oldman is a great actor but his performance couldn't salvage the awful script.

And he plays it so chill too, like just walks up and chucks it out the window while speaking *v e r y c a l m l y* while Jonathan's like 😳

@@lightsideofsin8969 the BBC version from '77 keeps it smooth and a little unsettling.

Thank you for bringing up the excessive use of the word Picturesque in the book. I’m surprised Red did include that in this video

@@junelogalbo9740 it's alarming

@@Lolo50000 -ly picturesque

@@thornless_flora I'm wheezing

@@Lolo50000 in a picturesque way

Skeptical Chris Not too sure the theories of natural selection can be applied to fictional creatures /`^π^ cool idea though

Skeptical Chris It was in the original novel kinda because of the ladie vampires I guess so it didn't evolve only after that. But yeah Stoker probably added it because of that. And because I guess if he had to choose someone to bite it would make sense to choose someone you would want to see around for a while

I think some of the seductive traits comes fro ideas in Christianity in which the devil tries to appeal to human desires.

Skeptical Chris at the risk of being a big nerd, let me tell you of an interesting plant I learned about a long time ago. there is a carnivorous plant that has a special stem that looks similar to a bug. it gives off a scent that smell terrible to people, but to insects it's like axe body spray. the plant lures it hapless victims with this stem, once a bug lands on it to mate with the bait, it's dinner time! I can't remember the name of the plant since it was a really long time ago. but that some wining and dining I'd like to say. I paid attention in biology class, don't judge me. 😑

Skeptical Chris but from an evolutionary perspective, humans should all be divas too, for reproductive purposes. because evolution doesn't work that fast and shouldn't apply to vampires anyway as vampires aren't born, i declare your theory wrong.

Four good men apparently barely equal one Mina Harker

@@Vinemaple Don't shit-talk those heros.

The Boyfriend Squad(tm) are great, don't get wrong, but she has more brains than all of them put together.

I think the scene was meant to depict what Quincy is like. I'm not sure if he was just scouting the area, trying to chase after Dracula, or just noticed the bat and didn't want to take a chance.

@@Andrewtr6 Given that he's a walking Texan stereotype, there's at least a 35% chance he just wanted an excuse to shoot something.

I'd like to thin that was just a bat. Not even Dracula, heck, not even another vampire. Just a random bat.

@@calebleach7988 Quincy does say that ever since the incidents began he’s been shooting (or trying to) every bat he sees out of discomfort.

peak american representation

I've always pictured her as the Dignified Bisexual (maybe that's just because I'm also bi), so she might also find them attractive! Aside from the murder part

@@juliastrawn2113 Fun tidbot for you; Mina as bi has been basically made canon by Tumblr. Everyone noticed that how much she comments on Lucy's hotness was a bit to much for them to be roommates.

@@erin8050 Oh, I know! The tumblr Dracula fandom is so wonderful to see. And yeah, most straight women don't talk about their female friends the way Mina talks about Lucy. And there's the fact that she first noticed Dracula because they were checking out the same cute girl. Mina Harker: Bi Icon of classical literature

I have to read the book I don't remember that. Mina was really close to Lucy but I never thought about it that way.

@@juliastrawn2113I don’t remember fully, but doesn’t at one point Mina say in her journal that she wishes she could be one of Lucy’s suitors? Or am I making a false memory? I know that Lucy says she wishes she could marry all three men, and honestly, given what we know of them, and how much they all “respect” one another, if it weren’t Victorian England they probably would have been down for a polycule.

“The state of Texas” I’m cackling!

The only one who actually has the right to say so was Jonathan

As a Texan everything Red put in for the State of Texas’ dialogue is extremely accurate

So her fiancé is the only one who is not sexist and it’s actually worried about the horse he has seen

@Jason Dobbins I’m fairly certain he is also sexist (it was the Victorian Era after all) but that wasn’t his focus I don’t think.

Stoker's notes identify van Helsing as a German professor, although it's never stated in the published version. I like to think that van Helsing is a German immigrant, living and working in Amsterdam, rather than a native Dutchman.

wow that's amazing!!!

You know, that could actually work, because the Ford Coppola movie sucked, don't @ me. Yours is a very interesting idea, but I don't really think a lot of people ( Twitter) would like an adaptation in our modern day and age

that's genius!!!!!!!

The hunt should totally be like cringey finding bigfoot footage with the shaky cam and night vision and everything.

I’d watch that!

Yes! This

Spider count Spider count Sucks your blood Right on out Can't survive In the day Wants to take Over the UK watch out Here comes the spider count

Not gonna lie, when it was described as "lizard-like", that made me chuckle. I have a very warped sense of humour.

Oddly enough Hotel Transylvania actually adapted that

@@frostedfirefly To be fair, don't lizards sort of . . . squiggle their way around? Like, their body wiggles back and forth while they run and climb. That would be a pretty hilarious thing for a full grown Victorian count to do :)

I thought so too

Honestly from this and the comments, it kinda seems like most any pairing would work, altho Jonathan and Mina are the only like explicitly ride or die. Altho tbh I kinda forgot about Lucy's actual fiance like half the time, so maybe I should go read it

No he didn't.

Well that's definitely how Disney would rewrite it to be

Big knife > Angry fang boi

Shouldn’t he know how to harness the power of the sun by breathing a certain way?

@@dubsquad156 where is this from

@@vimalkumar-gb3mh Jojos Bizarre Adventure

@@dubsquad156 we can re-interpret the knife as a giant, medieval sword.

Frankensteins monster?

@@Blaze-xe8cl just wait a few years more

@@Blaze-xe8cl Fate/Apocrypha made Frankenstein’s monster well… surprisingly cute

@@Blaze-xe8cl look up monster high

@@Blaze-xe8cl I, Frankenstein has a very handsome Frankenstein’s monster

The original womanizing vamp gets so often forgotten

And not only that, it's a Lesbian Vampire Romance Novel!

Joseph LeFanu had it going on and people diSresPecT my dude so hard by forgetting about Carmilla.

Been looking for this comment!

_Carmella_ is such a strange work. Like, the horror only works if "woman passionate for another woman" is a horrifying concept to you, so it doesn't really work in the modern age. Carmella actually comes across as kind of romantic and tragic.

At least there's her treatment in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comic, NOT the awful, awful movie).

*self insert.

Yeah especially considering the book was written in the 1890s. You wouldn’t expect the female characters to have any agency.

I think the only I would like to see is Mel Brooks "Dracula" because I heard it's very funny.

Definitely a better love story than Twilight

He is a very lonely vampire in a mostly empty castle.

Disregarding the fact that he might be gay (he definitely has a crush on Jonathan), he has *three sexy vampire ladies* that just live in his castle for no reason.

@@juliastrawn2113 Biphobia among the vampire population has to stop

@@juliastrawn2113 He isn't.

Re: Dracula, the year after THAT: "Did you say 'podcast material'?"

@@jen.kj7 Yepp, since they have all 3 types of markers in their blood, they can get all types of blood, but can only give blood to others with type AB+ blood. On the other hand we have O-, who don't have any of the markers, so they are the universal donors, they can give blood to everyone else, but they can only receive blood from pthers with an 0- blood type.

@@jen.kj7 Yepp, exactly! It's all about the markers! And if they gave her the wrong type of blood, her immune system would have attacked because of the unfamiliar markers. For example, if she had B+ blood type, she can get O- (no markers), 0+ (+ marker) B- (B marker) or B+ (B and + marker) since those would be familiar, but if they in this case tried to give her A+ for example, her immune system would have attacked because of the unfamiliar A markers. (Of course this is just what I learned in my high school bio class, and AFAIK there are even more blood types with different indicators that we don't really learn about? I'm not sure it was an offhand comment. But this is the gist of blood transfusion rules as I know it)

@@szaboluca5536 There are a bunch of other, minor Blood Types, but they seldom count because the immune system only starts reacting to them after a cuple of transfusions. The rest is pretty accurate.

@@kisassa Thank you! Yeah I know there's more, we learned about 3 of them in bio, but others were mentioned (our teacher was really passionate about his subject) but I didn't want to cause any confusion, and I don't really remember the other ones. But thank you for the correction, it did remind me that I wanted to look something up about this :)

ohhh. so that way it doesn't matter what the donors' types were. great reasoning.

I let a gasp of surprise and a squel of excitement in the few mili seconds before she said the last part

I'm agree.

It’s also hilarious to read the book, because Mina and Lucy are REALLY good friends so for a while they would sleep in the same bed because Arthur and Johnathan were away. Also Lucy would sleep walk and Mina would have to get her. 10/10 totally just roommates

@@fl1cksfish94 yep 100% just gals being pals

@@fl1cksfish94 plot twist: dracula is just really, really bad at trying to join the polycule

You need a Texan...I'm in...

Hell yeah

I’m in

You sob I’m in

Depends on the genre you wanna play. Either way.... Sure why not

For real tho, amount of gay confusion over her narration (LIKE CONFESS ALREADY) slowed me reading it so much Fact that Stoker was inspired by Carmilla doesnt help, lol

There's also a surprising amount of one-sided tension between Dracula and Jonathan. I'm reading the book now and honestly I know it probably read differently when it was published, but... (Edit: Changed "ho yay" to "tension" because apparently the term ho yay confused people? Ho yay is tvtropes slang for homoerotic tension between male characters. Its female counterpart is les yay.)

Also, apparently Stoker is heavily, heavily suspected of being a self-loathing homosexual. Apparently there's been people reading into Dracula's and Jonathan's relationship in this way for a long time because of this, and interpret Dracula's attacks on women to be displacement for his sexual desire, frustration, and anger at himself and Jonathan. It doesn't help that the "brides" (who are actually implied to be his relatives) randomly bring up whether or not someone like Dracula can really sincerely love someone... after Dracula stops them from biting Jonathan by literally calling him "mine." Honestly I think people have shipped Mina and Dracula for so long because they were more comfortable shipping a woman with her implied rapist than with the fact that the closest thing to a love interest Dracula has is a guy. The subtext is strong with this one.

Then there was the time when Mina saw Lucy sleeping and was like “if Arthur fell in love with her in the drawing room, imagine what he would say now”

Disagree. The best pairing is Jonathan Harker and the Kukri Knife.

MEEE eagerly awaiting my dear friend jonathan's correspondence

jonathan our bestie jonathan

I was scrolling through the comments looking for this! Dracula daily squad!

What is it and how do you sign up for it?

I'm so sad I didn't hear about this until recently. Because now that it's been going on for two months I do and don't want to start it because I'll have to get caught up instead of the constant drip feed and it saddens me. So I'm hoping they maybe do it again in the future and I hear about it before it starts.

Later: "Lucy is dead!" *gasp* "But in a hot way!"

Dracula: WRRYYYYYYYYYYY*

DIOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

why is this applicable to jojo?

MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA!!!!!!!

ZA WARULDO!

The Spiderman comparison just made me think that an alternate-universe version of Spiderman where Spiderman is a Victorian Londoner named Peter Harker and all his villains are modified to fit archetypes from Victorian literature could be brilliant.

yep

It’s also probably easier to get close to someone’s neck if you look like Leonardo DiCaprio as opposed to Igor.

But would it flow more with fear?

@@Br-kc2jy fear makes your body react the same as with cold, everything narrows and bloodflow get focused on the vitals Being hot, figurative as well as literal makes it much easier to draw blood That is why donation locations usualy have their thermostat quite high

@@Burning_Dwarf Good to know

@@JaelinBezel Fear can bring the same effect. Actually it's probably more effective so I guess it was just about preference.

MetalGlitch holy- your right

@@randomtechpriest2644 why it's his right instead of his left though?

RutraNickers first off, because a there’s a blood sucking humanoid mosquito on his right and he is right about it

@@randomtechpriest2644 .... I was making fun of your grammar when you used "your" instead of "you're"

RutraNickers just cause you said that, your right

Watashi wa ga Kitaa....

HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

It’s fine now: I am here Van Helsing is Allmight confirmed (head canon

He’s not just placing garlic flowers randomly! Each and every flower is more than 100% of his focus!

Since he's Dutch rather than American, maybe his attacks are named after provinces from the Netherlands. Limberg Smash!!

I’ve finally managed to catch up on it, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. Great way to experience the novel.

@@snarkywallflower5829 Is it possible to catch up or do I need to wait for May 3rd next year? Or should I go read my hardcover copy instead?

@@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 I think it's probably possible!

Bless that woman.

She's so cool

The keeper of the sacred braincell

Honestly I can relate. My D&D group is running Curse of Strahd, which is about as blatant of a Dracula reference as you can get in the game, and my character seems to be the only person in the party with a brain.

Eh, I felt it was pretty natural that most people wouldn't be able to figure out the plot if they were in the story. Mina was just smart in a way the rest weren't. The only seriously stupid decision on their part was cutting her out of the Dracula research club, which was informed by their victorian worldview and the fact the stress and pain brought about in trying to research and counter Dracula probably caused them to assume their life would be better without it, forgetting that Dracula's MO is preying on the ignorant.

Agreed

I want merch

@@mothersandfuckersofthejury5416 ORDER THE SHIRTS

Other awesome band names Green Gadget Lightning Vortex The Dark World Cyber Dragon Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon One Day of Peace Drastic Drop Off Also, any Yugioh card name ever. Seriously.

Redisalive Nothing can beat this. Ever

I mean she knows jocat Also whats it like having a head bigger than your entire body?

Crosses are super overused... imagine how could would it be to have a vampire hunter who possess a actually, 100% true reliquary, like a bone or a martyrdom tool of some saint... that would hella hurt a vampire more than any cross.

there was actually one, kind of old joke about containing a vampire by luring it into a multi-faith chapel or any other place where there are lots of different religious symbols, whereupon the vampire would have a seizure. so it has never been specified that it has to be crosses, any symbol with religious significance works

@@giacomoromano8842 I know one book where the main character uses a lamb partially due to a younger experience with an overly graphic sculpture of the crucifixion. She explains her reasoning pretty well, but the rest of the cast still makes jokes about protecting yourself from a den of vampires with a wooly animal.

She literally calls dracula seeing in the dark "darkvision"

Didn't know I wanted this.... Someone needs to get on this.👍🏻

I can already imagine it, and I love it! Vlogs, Mina's bridal blog where she discusses her upcoming marriage (with entries getting darker as her maid of honor and friend, Lucy, gets sicker), Sewards' "Ask an Alienist" RU-vid channel and sweet naïve Lucy Westenra would 100% be a shy TikToker.

@@edisonlima4647 I want this too omg.

@@edisonlima4647 Ooh, ooh! Count Dracula himself would definitely be a sort of "Villain With Good Publicity" celebrity or something.

Alternatively, if you're not a fan of found footage movies, you could make it so that - at some point - every single character featured in the story meets at least one of the other characters on screen. Then, simply focus on their face and swing the camera around to be behind _them_ and not whoever had the focus before, or flash back to summat they were doing earlier

"Its not MY fault she died. Those humans gave her incompatible blood transfusions...that she only needed because I was drinking her blood. But clearly this is in no way my fault." (Side Note: I personally find it unfair to hold authors to scientific knowledge that was unknown at the time. So I just assume Lucy was like type AB+.)

And Francis Ford Coppola's. I mean, I know Coppola probably wanted to distinguish more between Lucy and Mina, and to avoid the "Victorian ingenue" cliche, but would a sheltered upper-class Victorian lady even KNOW about some of the stuff Lucy talked about? Of course it was all talk and it was probably meant to come off as more like a teenage girl trying to come off as more worldly and sophisticated than she really is, but considering the time period it's rather ridiculous.

@@jenniferschillig3768 If memory serves he also had Sadie Frost dye her hair because he didn't want audiences confused by the two main women having the same hair colour. I've often suspected that they chose red hair for Lucy because they wanted to push the old "redheads are sex demons" trope. On a more amusing note, Winona Ryder is naturally blonde, while Sadie Frost has black hair. In the book Mina is fair haired and Lucy has black hair. Assuming my memory is solid, which it might not be.

@@TitusVarus I don't believe Mina's hair color was ever specified in the book.

@@rafmeinster Ah well, there you go. I probably picked that up from somewhere along the way and my brain blended it in.

Hellsing...another word for hades’ choral group?

sounds like something richtofen would say

I have a character concept whos basically a plague doctor who uses pressure points. This is now one of the things he will say.

what's funny is that's not all that different from how it goes "Hey, I'mma bury her with garlic and a cross...hey john, do you trust me?" "...yeah?" "Alright, we gotta come back and cut her head off and shove garlic in her mouth." "WHAT?!" "I asked you to trust me, I'm a doctor." "...Okay."

That scene in the 1992 movie was one of its few redeeming moments. Helsing. "Doctor, I need your post-mortem knives." Seward. "Are you going to do an autopsy?" Helsing. "No nothing so serious as that. I just want to cut off her head and take out her heart." (Seward leaves) Helsing. "Seward? Seward!"

Yes

Bulger What do you mean you forgot the song? No no screw it screw it SCREW IT! Just take my phone and hit random. No hit random. Okay 3. 2...

I came here specifically for these. Thank you

@@chrishess5526 Yeah okay; turn it off, turn it off. It didn't work. It did not work.

I'm a fuckmothering vampire and deserve to be treated as such!

You mind holding the phone? I need to go on a walk. A VERY enthusiastic walk

And of course how her daughter was taken by the God of the Underworld.

embarrassingly i forgot who Demeter was so i didn't see how hilarious that line was until i read your comment thank you for reminding me LOL

@@chadbrown6595 So does that make Dracula Hades in this story?

@@iceluvndiva21 Nah, Hades was actually pretty well adjusted and safe as long as you didn't try to cheat death without asking for permission first. It's an older sibling thing.

OH MY GOD I DIDNT THINK OF THAT IM- fucking stoker you madlad

My "oh bleep, that was creepy" moment was when Lucy got bitten for the first time, and also the one you said

Mine was Lucy's sleepwalking trip to the graveyard...

Why did he steal Johnathan's clothes?

@@Pandie2828 Im pretty sure it was so that people could see “Jonathan” leaving Dracula’s Castle. That way anyone looking for him would think he disappeared after leaving Dracula rather than the last sighting being him climbing into the carriage to go to the castle.

@@danielhamilton5862 ah ok that makes since and thanks for the quick reply

I am not alone! Why is it so hilarious?!

*bwoooommmm*

@@Silver_light77 God dang it! why did it make me laugh thinking about it!

@@dakotafrisbie2033 she's incredibly pale (Inception noise)

@@Herrscher-of-Autism BWOOOOOOM

Same thing in Romeo and Juliet: 27 lines of Romeo getting frisky with Juliet's assumed corpse

I mean it makes sense because apparently vampirism (Is that how you spell it?) causes sexiness to triple.

Seriously what is it with literature and describing a corpse as beautiful or artists, particularly Greek, depicting guys with huge dongs and girls being allergic to clothes?! XD ( *don't need to answer the later because I get it on a symbolic meaning. So that was rhetorical. But the foremost still confuses me.* )

@@iceluvndiva21 I think the point is to say something along the lines of, “As beautiful in death as they were in life.” Still, weird.

thats her true form you fool

people who havent played dnd : visible confusion

I think it's a demon costume.

@@charliefarmer4365 could be one in the same

@@charliefarmer4365 tiefling are demonic in nature

Gabriel Aubry leugue of extrodinary gentlemen

They couldn't cast shadows, either. If I recall, the reason for that is because they didn't have souls.

@@daviddaugherty2816 *taking notice of the shadow cast by the chair i hit my toe on every other day* " ... you know, you could at least stop pretending."

@@derimperator3847 Just because it's pure evil and plotting against you doesn't mean it doesn't have a soul. I can see why the Inanimate Object Illuminati want you gone so badly...

This fixes this trope so much, it has always frustrated me, and you are doubly a rock star because you alerted me to the original version of "vampires can't see *themselves* in mirrors." I think you may have added a year to my life, because I have never been able to deconstruct or handwave that particular impossibility.

The reason for the silver is that silver has purifying/antibacterial properties (possibly why it was used for eating utensils) and vampires are in no small part a monster-version of disease. Same with garlic and holy water/running water.

It actually happens in the book - Stoker wasn't always the best at consistency.

And Dutch and German are similar languages. I have a Dutch friend who says he can speak and German just fine because how similar the languages are.

K. I haven't been so often in the Nederland's. I've heard, that its similar, but I wouldn't have thought, to be that similar. Tho I can read a good chunk of it.

@@TheBoringEdward Yeah, it's similar en par on how so many words are interchangeable in Spanish and Portuguese.

Eh it's more like reading a bunch of words that are a couple letters off from the german version and very Confusing stuff in between. You can kind of make out what it means if you read it but i went on vacation in the Netherlands and oh my god i barely understood anything

*Taps triangle furiously*

He really does like his moonlit walks, doesn't he?

I heard Alucard and instantly thought of Hellsing Abridged: Integra: Aulcard! Stop running on moonbeams! You'll never make it before morning! Alucard: I'm gonna do it this time, and then the cheese will be all mine bitches!

@@jordanloux3883 Abridged Alucard is best Alucard

@@thegoodmudkip3652 (¬‿¬) when hope is gone... undo this lock.. ( ¬‿¬)>⌐■-■ and send me forth.. 🌕 on a moonlit walk (⌐■_■)

Oh my god I have tried to pitch this idea to all of my friends that want to go into film production- the catch is that vampires cannot be caught on camera unless they're in night vision mode or with a particular filter (i.e instead of the not being able to see Dracula in the mirror, Harker can't see him on the camera)

@@abbyj8915 Oh my god, the camera trick is genius. You spread the word girl! Maybe if we tell everyone we can think of, someone will come back to the idea once they've got a career and go: imma do this, good idea.

I'd watch that

This would be fascinating to watch!

If I recall cameras use silver as a component in the circuitry, and they used to use silver bromide if I remember in old fashioned cameras. Soooo they might not actually show up in them. Depends really.

BooCakeSenpai IKR!? I almost couldn’t stop laughing 😂

S Get equipped with Serious Face

BooCakeSenpai I had to pause the video every time he does it just to laugh

Honestly same I was dying every time.

Actually it's helpful for the doomsday , weirdmmagedon

They already did this in the Hammer Horror films, the Dan Curtis movie, the BBC 1977 adaptation and both Nosferatu movies (1922 and 1979). Plus how the book presented it was so dry and drawn out, one forgets Dracula was actually a thing in the story. Plus he does practically nothing that makes you fear him in particular. And if he manages to do something it feels more like the "guy squad" are just a bunch of fools, despite consisting of two doctors, one solicitor, one lord and an experienced texan hunter. For real, the people who love the book make it sound like an epic journey to conquer evil, but actually it's just a hamfisted story about a foreign guy invading england and stealing away the girls. And everyone (including the villain himself) is as infuriatingly dumb as the scientists in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus".

Except he had a friend from Pennsylvania. Which was ironically the inspiration for the "Texan" Quincy Morris.

Dubuya Jay you’ve been wooshed

@@dubuyajay9964 He also met 2 presidents

He fucked Walt Whitman I think he spoke to at least one

@@lorendaemon7945 Pics or it never happened, show me the receipts!