Horror Of Dracula (1958) Trailer

great movie

your probably right, Stoker didn't invent them, but he cemented their place in history, if not for his novel, vampires would be all but forgotten, because no other novels would have been made after that, and they would end up like the mole people, childrens comic relief... sad isn't it?

so much about chinese and totalitarian dictatorshits and bla bla bla but we're no better, we only thin we are, but we're just as oppressing and capitalistik swine and boring as it gets...........FUCK THE MASTERS OF WAR, FUCK THE U.S.A's system of monetary profit that monopolizes everything and......

Sh! I'm watching the trailer. ...Popcorn? *Hands you the bucket.*

Mmh, dont mind if i do. Thanx sweety!!!

I know a baker.He sleeps during the day and goes out at night:-))
I always love Count Dracula.

Much better than today's computerized trash.

This is true, vampires and similar undead ghouls had appeared in many different myths and stories in various countries, especially in europe for centuries. A book called The Vampyre was written before Dracula. but it was Dracula that made vampires famous and cemented many of the genre's conventions. It's funny that the slick Dracula look a la Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi is most recognizable yet not much like Stoker's description, which is more freakish, much like nosferatu

Yeah, Dracula in Stoker's novel is a shrivelled old man with big moustaches who climbs on the castle walls like some sort of lizard and is not an attractive male at all. He's a centuries old living corpse, he's seduction power is the seduction power of death, and decay, and sickness.
And, to my knowledge there were a couple of fictional depictions of a vampire before Dracula, like Pollidori's tale you mention and a serialized penny dreadful called Varney the Vampire.

This is because humans want what they can't have, eternal life being the aim of our selfish desires, and vampires come at a cost, drinking blood and burning in the sun, so being beutifal burdens the bargain, and makes eternal life more rewarding.