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Dracula's Daughter

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Added Sun, 09/05/2021
Release date
11-05-1936
Original title
Dracula's Daughter
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Dracula's Daughter is a 1936 American horror film from the classic Universal horror film series. It is a direct sequel to the 1931 film Dracula.

Dracula

Movie|1931

The legend of vampire Count Dracula begins here with this original 1931 Dracula film starring Bela Lugosi.

The film was originally positioned as an adaptation of a short story Bram Stoker's "Dracula's Guest", but actually has nothing to do with the original source.

The film begins immediately after the events of the previous film. Dracula has just been killed by Van Helsing. Scotland Yard police detain the professor at the scene of the crime. At the police station, he explains that he actually killed a vampire who had been dead for more than 500 years and had been drinking the blood of innocent people all these years. Instead of hiring a lawyer, Van Helsing enlists the help of a psychiatrist, Geoffrey Garth, who was once his student. The doctor agrees to help the professor and comes to London.

Meanwhile, Dracula's daughter, Countess Maria Zaleska, with the help of her assistant Sandor, steals Dracula's body from Scotland Yard and burns it. The Countess hopes that after the destruction of her father's body, the curse will fall from her and she will become mortal. However, this hope is not fulfilled, and she still has an eternal thirst for blood. But at night the Countess continues to kill, and during the day she sleeps in a coffin. At a social gathering, she meets the same Dr. Jeffrey who helps Van Helsing, and falls in love with him. Maria does not tell the doctor that she is a vampire, but makes an appointment with him and asks him to help her heal, although she herself understands that this is probably impossible. During their conversation, Garth gets a phone call and an urgent call to work. He leaves, and the Countess asks Sandor to bring her a model to draw. On the street, Sandor meets a young girl, Lily, who wants to throw herself off the bridge. The assistant dissuades her and brings her to the Countess ' workshop. She offers Lily to drink wine and undress. After the girl agrees, Zaleska attacks her. Later, an exsanguinated Lily is found on the street and taken to the hospital, where she is examined by Dr. Garth. He notices two wounds on the girl's jugular vein. Jeffrey hurries to discuss his assumptions with Professor Van Helsing, who immediately says that this is the work of a vampire. Garth returns home, where the Countess is waiting for him. She offers to take Garth to Transylvania with her, but he refuses.

The doctor is called to the hospital because Lily has regained consciousness. Garth hypnotizes the patient, and she tells him that she was attacked by a woman. The doctor understands that it is about Countess Zaleska. Jeffrey goes to her house, where Maria tells him that she is a vampire.

The Countess and her assistant kidnap the doctor's beloved Janet and fly with her to Transylvania. At Dracula's castle, an assistant asks Countess Zaleski why they brought a girl here from London. Zaleska tells him that Geoffrey will come for Janet, the countess will give him eternal life, and Garth will stay with her in the castle. After such words, her servant goes into a rage, because the countess promised him eternal life.

Dr. Geoffrey and Van Helsing follow the Countess to Transylvania. Geoffrey arrives at the castle and finds Janet hypnotized. Zaleska tells Garth that if he wants his beloved to survive, the doctor must stay with her forever. Geoffrey agrees, but at that moment Sandor shoots the countess in the heart with an arrow. The police break into the castle with Van Helsing, and the Countess ' servant is killed. Janet wakes up from a hypnotic dream.

Phenomena in artwork: A vampire

The film shows a woman who considers herself a vampire and the daughter of Dracula himself. According to Professor Van Helsing, vampires live for hundreds of years, drink human blood by biting through their victims ' jugular veins, are not reflected in mirrors, and die only from a wooden stake driven into the heart. Vampires have the ability to transform their victims into their own kind by injecting their own blood into the wound. The vampire goes out to hunt at night and must return to the coffin with his native land before dawn, otherwise he will die.

"Dracula's Daughter" demonstrates an unusual ability to hypnotize its victims, focusing their attention on a large gold ring. Later, these people are found in an unconscious state drained of blood, and attempts to bring them out of a hypnotic sleep lead to their death.

However, the film does not directly show anything that supports Van Helsing's words (unless, of course, the very presence of victims and the corpse of Count Dracula, to whom the professor drove an aspen stake into his chest, are considered proof of the existence of vampires). The characters only discuss the wounds on the necks of the victims, the lack of mirrors in the room of "Dracula's daughter", etc.At the same time, the wounds on the corpses and the fangs of vampires are not shown to the audience, and the same woman holds a cross in her hand, reads a prayer and spends at least one day as a normal person.


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