Ya, the film would've been much better if the vampires weren't burned to death in sunlight and used a more creative option instead.

Are you sure that was the case for Lucy?

I have a feeling similar goes for Superman. I always wondered about how the old school cartoon/radio show simplified his powers. "Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound/bounce." I feel like maybe Supes *originally* was drawn leaping. A character, with one leg extended, other knee up, one arm tucked, other arm extended and streaks running from him to the ground... Superman probably never actually flew. He might have just been jumping same as Hulk does.

This makes a lot more sense. I loved this movie but I kept wondering why Anna didnt just tell them the crate Dracula slept in, that way they could open it up in broad daylight and then toss him overboard. I didn't know that in the original cannon this wouldn't have worked regardless

Dracula could only walk in the sunlight under certain circumstances/times of the day that too when he had gorged in the blood of the living, possibly because he was so old or the original. The book explained so ... others however, being younger or having a weaker bloodline could not bear the sun

Renefield as well

​@user-ye4bu6xh4ctrue. We're unfortunate.

​​@user-ye4bu6xh4c I never understood why so many controversy about Eli's nature. Even the author himself stated he's a male eunoch who adopted a female appearance to make people feel sorry for him. I do not find any reason to cause controversy with Eli's gender, as he cannot be considered a LGBT icon /Sjw propaganda AT ALL

Dude, the monster verse that never really came to. The mummy, Dracula an a bunch of other movie monsters were to exist together. Even can helsing was supposed to be a part of it can helsing?

Do you realize that movie execs now are so shit at their jobs that they will literally crowdsource movie ideas from this sort of information? In a few years when this movie you just invented the idea for comes out, we're all going to meet back here at this comment section and talk about how horrible hollywood is.

He still messes with people as per usual but he's efficient about it.

he spoke

Weak story , Dracula looked great but it had poor casting , even diversity casting .. the screen play didn’t really get you hooked , more could have been done

​@PoldarkGodzilla speak for yourself buddy you just have bad taste this was probably the best dracula movie and depiction of dracula on screen not some pretty boy with long flowing hair that gets one tapped or bodied by blonde bombshells and Liu kang look alikes and weak asss Scooby-Doo gangs he is ruthless and actually shows why and how he got the name dracula by showing his true nature and what truly being a vampire is..and the casting and the writing for the movie Is great! Everyone played there role well in this movie you don't ever need to be a director or judge any movie again with an opinion like that pal..on a movie like this..lol go touch some grass or sumthen friend..💯👌

This is the feral animalistic Dracula that we know and love. Not the top hat 🎩 wearing cane twirling gentleman of leisure he becomes at the end.

I'm reading the book again for Halloween. Do a different one every year, (Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, etc). Right about the time the Demeter crashes, ole Johnny boy is getting tortured, fed on and SA'd by the Brides. Laughed at for trying to escape by the Count's gypsy familiars and almost going crazy. Poor Johnathan.

Maybe that can be like a prequel movie on its own or a standalone unique version like we're antologizing the book

​@@user-ye4bu6xh4cnope he was sucking him dry, hungry and thirsty. He is slowly dying only escaped by throwing himself in the river

Dude I was thinking the same thing. Like the whole time the movie was playing I was thinking "what's Johnathan doing at that particular moment, or Lucy n mina, Dr Seward...?"

LAAAAAAAAAWWWWLLLLL. At least Dracula didn't off him right then & there. Left a pretty boy toy for his brides. How sweet.

I feel like the ending was a letdown because dracula was TOO human. Throughout the movie he was very beastial, and couldn't have possibly been mistaken for human, but there he is enjoying himself in a bar.... If they leaned into something more jack the ripper-like with Clemens seeing him in an alleyway attacking a prostitute, it would have made more sense....(and I like the idea of Clemens following rumors of jack the ripper knowing it was dracula, but that could be overstepping).

Writing was good, acting was good, Dracula looked horrible. It would’ve been better not to show him at all. Get rid of the CGI!

I think the whole point was that he's supposed to be more unnatural in this design, even his most human form by the end was still nosferatu-esque simply hidden by heavy clothing in London where people already have a general sense of unsociability and poverty at the time. Possibly also the pollution of the time probably means Dracula can go out in daylight if he must. Pretty sure now that I think about it that daylight wasn't a factor in the books, we actually do see him walk around in daylight when he's reached London right?

Well in the books he's supposed to turn into a top hat 🎩 wearing cane twirling gentleman of leisure. I think it's more fun when he's a monster.

When you see black people on a boat coming from transylvania I'll pass. What's next Dracula is from Africa? Woke movies with diversity hires piss me off. When I saw no one on the boat that was European I knew it was trash..

It would have been even better if it was a book-accurate tall thin man with long black hair, a moustache and a pointed beard with a white streak through it. I know folks are gonna jump down my throat with "But he was an old man with a moustache!" Yes. Only at the beginning and end of the novel. During his time in London he looked more like a stereotypical moustache-twirling villain.

Check out 30 days of night !

This movie and 30 days of night were really good vampire horror movies

Dam… if that’s so than every other vampire horror movie must be worse than Friday 9

This is a second to 30 days of night. The entire atmosphere of that movie was scary..

That was definitely my interpretation as well!

It is explained in the movie (albeit poorly) that he was feeding on the girl and rationing. He was intentionally starved. Once she was "saved" he wasn't able to feed for a couple of nights. So with each kill he is regaining his strength. That's why he becomes more and more lethal with each kill.

I would think starving himself would have a different purpose. My guess would be that it was out of necessity to be able to be transported to the ship. It would've taken a good amount of time to travel most of the way across Europe by horse drawn cart. If he was to be feeding on people the entire trip, it's unlikely that anyone would continue transporting the crate. Once he's on the ship, he doesn't have a need to continue starving himself.

I was thinking the same thing, like are the people in this movie stupid?

I know the family name of his still survives as Florescu. If my memory serves me right

the CGI looks so cheap... really disappointing. And the whole plot is so weird. I mean where is the surprise? and why do all people on the ship act so stupid? Why didnt they search everything after the animals died? Why didnt they stick together after Anna told the story that a monster is on board? what an awfull, cheap movie. 10:20 and finally they get worried.. after all that stuff happened. Nobody is akting like that in the real world. 13:58 also their god damn WOODEN ship is burning!! And they just stand there and watch? 19:00 and of course.. the first USEFULL thing someone does in this movie, was obviously a women. Cause all men are god damn stupid in this movie. Go girl, slayy. 19:30 and even if it sinks... god damn he has WINGS !!!!! HE CAN FLY !!!! who ever made this movie, should never touch a camera again. everyone who likes this should really question his mentality.

I'm gonna assume the sequel will be titled "The Count of Carfax Abbey"

Sadly, no. It bombed at the box office. It is also based on a chapter in a book. I would have loved to have seen this iteration of the character in a miniseries based on the entire book.

I’m not a Dracula fan but as a vampire lover I do want to see more evil, creepy, dark or “demonic” interpretations of vampires instead of the romanticized urban fantasies that has been accepted in recent years.

@@Gemini053finally someone else agrees with me when I say I think draculas a bit overrated. I think the main reason I think that is because Brahms book is considered the “first vampire book” when in actuality that’s not true. Kinda annoying to see brahm get all the attention for a thing he didn’t really invent and that’s probably why I dislike Dracula.

​@@Gemini053Honestly I feel the same. I've been reading the fan base of vampire diaries and Buffy and twilight calling vampires p*dos and r*pists because they fall for younger people. I'm like "they don't fkn care, they are meant to be monsters"

Brilliantly put here! There is a reason why people appreciate good comments on KZfaq. This is one of them. Thank you for your time, fellow user 🙏

THANK YOU FOR SAYING WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS!!!

I'd say that the 70s BBC TV adaptation is the most faithful. That's its strength, and also its weakness. There's so much of the novel that is actually rather dull and rightly left out of filmed versions.

@@johnjames-glover4630 Point taken. But that's King for you!

It was written by Jesus himself? Dayum it must be good

Was looking for this comment , looks like the wendigo from until dawn

​@@youngmoses777 Yeah, Until Dawn's depiction of the wendigo is a relatively accurate representation of how the wendigo is described in native American folklore, a lanky corpselike human with pale skin. It is also Dracula's tendency to mimic voices that caught my attention, as that's also a pretty common part of the lore.

‼️Idk why we have to keep treading the same vampire stories set in the same places over and over again. Give me vampires in Edo Japan fighting samurai or Vikings vs vampires. They are ancient so surely they would have clashed with histories best warriors at some point! Vampires vs ancient Rome, vampires in Sparta! At least this was set on the ship which was different. But I just really want to see a samurai slicing a vampire who is regenerating at the same time. So the samurai would have to be faster and faster. Anyway I just want historical warriors fighting mythical creatures. That movie Viking wolf that came out recently made me so mad! It was set in modern times but in the very beginning told of how a Viking was bit by a wolf on a raid and when the Viking ships returned the ships were empty except for a wolf. Then they flashed to modern times!!!! I don't want to see that! Give me the Viking vs werewolf movie!!! I'm so mad they just glossed right over that in favor of a done to death kid is bitten and family has to decide what to do plot line 🙄

We won't be seeing anything from this movie, it bombed at the box office. Which was a shame because I felt it was competently written and I liked it.

@@Theendman42 Eh, they removed the perceived final heroic deed of the captain when he tied himself in the ship's wheel with a cross. All in favor of the black man being the last survivor. I notice he is also the doctor (who now knows some ways to kill the vampire), so there's a big possibility that this Clemence guy replaces Doctor Van Helsing and f up the source material. Good thing it bombed.

⁠@@paulievespucci6867you had to specify your problem was a black man who was the only survivor and could possibly replace Van Helsing. Therefore good thing it bombed? Says alot about you lol

Credits even say so.

I forgot about that!

Shadow of the Vampire. Defoe was hilarious

@@MYJEWISHLAMPSHADES love that film , bit of a forgotten classic, it's available on youtube surprisingly

@@marcraygun6290 Hes the Joker we should have had. Btw...Joker is stolen German culture.

Considering it was shot in black in white and a silent picture and made on a low budget it deserves an Oscar if Oscars existed back then.

Nah I think drac has the ability to limit his venom output into Anna I mean he needed to keep her alive for a certain amount of time he wasn’t looking to change her

It's stated in the movie that it was the blood transfusions she was getting that was staving off the change. Once the ship was gone and she could no longer get transfusions she changed.

You can’t build an immunity to vampire attacks they simply don’t drain you or infect you.

@@thotslayer9914 No why? x

In the real life story of the Dmitri, when the ship crashed at the dock, the witnesses notice the crew were dead and a verge abnormally large wolf/dog like creature ran off the ship.

@@ramonantoniodejuanbennett6239 The crew abandoned ship and survived, it's well documented in the records. There are rumours of a large dog though I don't know how true they are as a dog wouldn't be much use on a ship x

Twilight

Ending bit was hilarious for me ''We will sink the ship and he will drown'' > didn't account for the chance it could fly.

He would probably survive that, Dracula seem to need a close and personal death in most adaptations. The strain seems to indicate that you need a very powerful blast to get rid of a high tier vampire.

Same, there’s not many Vampire movies you guys can educate me on, I’ve seen them ALL. This why I LOVE this channel. This guy gets us.

I haven't seen it in over a decade, and i know it didn't perform well, but i remember enjoying the german Vampire movie 'Wir sind die Nacht'. Best way i can describe it is Lost Boys meets The Craft

Yeah but sadly this film didn't make a lot of money even though it deserved to I think this is going to be one of those films that will be embraced as a classic in years to come

You need to support them with cash

When did black people live in transylvania? Another woke failed movie with diversity hires. I'll pass

Bro thinks he carti

Serious 😂 a bit woke , weak screenplay , good looking Dracula though

Is Dracula from Africa in this woke bs movie?

Sounds like people mad because the black man was the only survivor😂

@@6sixty1gixxer80and their dumb reason is “woke” 😂

@@PoldarkGodzillaWhat is that even supposed to mean? That Mr Clemens was too black?

I just saw it and thought how does that fool anyone. Just a more humanoid wingless version. Still extremely pale, gaunty, the teeth, and above all the eyes are still the same.

​@@davevd9944i think that's just how he wanted the doc to recognize him but if he wanted that the crane would just do it so who knows

I wish untold was more successful, but I don’t think that would be a good idea. Hopefully this film did well enough to really give is more opportunity to see Dracula as he’s supposed to be… a horrifying monster.

just added a comment thinking along these lines but I like where you take it

@@classicghostrider2715 Thing is that even "horrifying monsters", the Strigoi and Nosferatu that Bram Stoker based Dracula on, started out as normal people. By either sin, improper burial, a turn of bad luck like a cat jumping over their casket or via witchcraft they became those monsters. I could see a parallel in actual humanity with the concept of power and it's corrupting influence over time. Untold Vlad started out trying to save his people, his family, his Kingdom. He tried to resist the forbidden aspect of the Master's "gift" to him, until he no choice and was forced to drink to save his son as his wife was already dead. Now centuries later after outliving all his loved ones, everyone he knew, he's just given up letting the power corrupt him, but it took that first step. As for literary Dracula, he's far from stupid in the book, which they seemed to forget in the Demeter movie, and though sometimes animalistic and monsterous, he plans his trip to England, purchasing several spots to house his Transylvanian earth besides just Carfax Abby. He even asks Johnathan if it's acceptable in business dealings to engage more than one solicitor to take care of separate multiple tasks, which he does. When they showed Dracula in Demeter, they made him seem much more animalistic. Not the sophisticated, calculating, well-spoken nobleman in Stoker's novel. A persona or form which he dons as a mask to better blend with human society, hiding the "devil" within. I don't think a giant bat like creature or a walking bald corpse man would go unnoticed in the bustling streets of London. Lol. I'd personally like see how young Vlad ended up falling into to what was shown in Demeter, from more human, to a beast or "devil", even if it had nothing to do with Untold. In the novel it's speculated that the Count could have been a Necromancer and that is how he obtained his affliction. Anyway you cut it Universal could get some prequels and sequels out of either tying in Untold or going the more faithful literary route. Don't you think that'd be interesting?

@@battlecat6766 As I said to Ghostrider in the above, whether tied to Untold or not I'd like to see how Dracula became the monster on the Demeter, the monster willing to feed a baby to his brides in the novel, and then just as easily was able to slip into high society London and pass as human to all but the initiated like Van Helsing. Is it duality of nature? Does his beastial half struggle against his humanity? Does he remember being human, not just his family and land's history like he recounts in the novel to Johnathan? Was he infected or as I said was speculated in the novel, was he a Necromancer and that's how he obtained his affliction? Stoker's novel is great and one of my favorite old horror books, but just because "the unknowable" can be terrifying, doesn't mean you can't scare me just as much with the "gorey details". If you catch my drift.

@@classicghostrider2715 will there be black people and diversity hires in the said movie you want made since that's what they did with this crap one

Hey! A Vampirella lover! It’s strange to see a fellow fan in the comments. Not many know about her.

Dammit it’s The Thing prequel all over again

There were no blood types in Stoker's novel either, LOL!

Nah, he's more romantic than scary.

Same here, I enjoyed the take of the legend as well, but I feel they made it to corny and stupid. They should reboot it and with the same concept but make it better and more intricate

Who th is Fracula 😂😂😂

@@Cormano980 whoops lol

Agreed. It is not a bad movie but it could have been BETTER!

I mean given that it’s 1 chapter in a book that also gives no background race,height etc to the crew. they did a pretty good job also Dracula looks how he looks in the book he’s supposed to be A Bald dude with fangs and Long Nails. He also is supposed to look like a “monster” on purpose to strike fear. He can shapeshift he just chooses to look like that. Why? I have no clue😂

This is exactly what I thought, woke subliminal DEI crap

Racist much? Believe it or not educated people of colour did exist back then and today.

When they have black pirates coming from transylvania ill pass. Too much diversity hiring going on in this woke movie. Let me guess Dracula is black and from transylvania

Comparing this pile of dung to either is a crime.

I sort of felt like they were going to making the doc into Van Helsing. I could easily have seen them doing that in a sequel.

@@changlouriousbasterd9524 I don't know how they could have. His name was already established and it wasn't Van Helsing. Van Helsing is also called in by Dr. Seward as his personal friend and mentor and an expert in not only medicine but in the occult. He already knew what Dracula was and what he was capable of. He knew how to help Lucy and it bought Lucy at least a few days. The Demeter's doctor did not. I accept they took a few liberties in order to make a few paragraphs into a full movie and I again stress I did like the film except the ending which does not work with the rest of the established narrative. Had they not left out the Captain's noble sacrifice and made it either apparent Dracula finished the job on the doctor or made it so he passes the torch on to the folks who actually kill him I would have liked the ending too.

Really hope it goes well man would you be going with this style of decrepit vampire or a more Hollywood approach

Christopher Lee of course!

i think the reason the girl did not turn was because Dracula did not drain her, where as he drained him, he was also hanging upside down, could of put the poison to his head but, if you remember from the movie in the 90s, once Dracula drained Lucy, Van Helsing said she would arise the next night. the reason he did not drain Lucy was because he was making her one of his brides and not just a vampire..

@@leeharris8102 I might have imagined this when I watched the movie but I also think Anna survived because Dracula only fed from her on her body and not the neck like with the kid and Olgaren

@@basement_dweller39 yes, it's a long way from draculas Castle to the port, even in a car today, dracula would of fed and the took her for the traveling In the boxes. I think that's why he looked less human, more bat like, same as in daybreakers. Its like he is barely alive at first, when he drains the animals. Its said you have to drain a body fully to make a vampire but, to make a bride so they are in control he feeds bit by bit. I have no doubt all being well he would of made her a bride, to remember his home land. Also when he is repeating their words. To me it was like he was learning the language. Could be wrong but seemed it a little..

It’s extremely silly and his character directly creates inconsistencies with the chapter from the book, not including the removal of the captain’s final sacrifice. Not a total deal breaker given the quality of the film, but it’s a very strange narrative deviation. It’s more upsetting because if they do plan to continue the story they obviously wrote in a character that did not exist in the book and is completely unnecessary.

I like that they actually made it different, making the film continuity its own thing with its own potential future.

The sequel is the main Dracula storyline 😄

I shit myself too 😅😅

After this video, I don't need to see it. 😀

Ah, another connoisseur here. No jokes, Jerusalem's Lot is a great book and needs more media.