VAMPIRES Pt 8: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) & Dracula Also-Rans
The Evolution of Horror
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Movie Review - Lucy Westenra by Sadie Frost
Lucy is eroticized much further in copola's adaptation than in her literary incarnation. She talks with artlessness and frankness bordering on the indecent, though at the same time remaining a kind hearted and beautiful young woman. Lucy's nature is flirty and tantalizing. This is somehow inked to her downfall. Stoker amplifies lucy's insatiability to a monstrous volume when he describes her undead self as a wanton creature of ravenous sexual appetite. In this demonic state, lucy pose a precarious hazard to men and their fragile self control, and therefore must be conquered. After her burial, she rises from the grave as a vampire and is discovered attacking
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