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lostamber · 8 months
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eyeofthebrainstorm · 2 years
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I honestly have no idea how Dracula manages to be so terrifying and ridiculous at the same time: the crew of the Demeter vanishing mysteriously one by one? Terrifying. Dracula crashing the ship because he is left alone to stir it? Hilarious. The storm and the general atmosphere of imminent danger and death? Terrifying. The towns people determined to adopt Dogcula at the town mascot? Hilarious.
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minneral · 2 years
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taciturn-nerd · 8 months
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Shoutout to the Whitby SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) for trying to befriend Dogcula.
Also I didn't know the SPCA had been around since 1824! It's international now and there's a local one in my city!
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evilkitten3 · 2 years
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definitely-a-normal-dog: woof
townspeople: yes!!!!!! best boy!!!!!! 10/10!!!!!!!!! be our new bestie
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just realized the no one similarity between wtnv and dracula. evil dog who's such a good boy who everyone wants to pet
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arbitrarity · 2 years
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me reading the title of today's Dracula daily email: gasp! how dare someone kick a puppy! i recognize that it's going to be Dogcula, but I still think that's rude
me after reading the entry: HOW DARE HE! ARREST THAT MAN! Quick, Mina, comfort and then adopt that good good dog!
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mourningmaybells · 1 year
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Did we ever find out what dog breed the count turns into i just remember that he was a black dog
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clouds-of-wings · 2 years
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If someone had told me before Dracula Daily started that there’s a part of the book where Dracula turns himself into a dog and travels to a British seaside village where everyone finds him cute, I would have thought they’re obviously shitting me.
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euphcme · 8 months
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just saw the last voyage of the demeter! unfortunately, it mostly just made me think about how good dracula is and how much better written everything was in the book. the demeter entries are some of the best-written suspense and horror i’ve ever read, and it’s a shame that a movie based on that really interesting and rich mini narrative ended up mostly throwing away everything that made it what it is.
1) i was SO looking forward to the iconic pose of the captain tied to the wheel with the crucifix as the ship blew into the harbor, and they didn’t even do it!!! they did try to do a dark version of it later — that seemed to imply that dracula himself tied the captain to the wheel instead of feeding on him or just killing him, when he was JUST THERE? — that seemed mostly like an attempt to appease hardcore book lovers. rip.
1a) in that vein, i do not understand the narrative choice to create a new pov character/Final Girl when the captain already had such rich characterization and evolution in the novel. i didn’t even necessarily mind clemens as a character! in any other survival-based horror movie i actually probably would’ve quite liked him, but he was just so wholly unnecessary and thematically out of place that i got more and more disappointed in the films insistence on his importance as it went on. we HAVE the captains log text from dracula — in fact, it’s all we have to get to know what happened on the demeter!! — and if you were already going to do log voiceovers, why not make the captain your pov character/protagonist as well?? i quite liked the casting of davos as the captain! it’s such a shame they didn’t give him anything to do, though. (also poor wojchek! the first mate was such a tumblr favorite during dracula daily that i’m sad they made him so unlikeable solely to prop up our new protag.)
2) the choice to not use the rich characterization of the captain and the first mate from the novel in favor of a made-up protag saddened me, especially because they seemed to be using clemens as a vehicle for the story’s thin themes: rationality/education and human progress vs. bestial nature. dracula is about civilization and our concepts of it! it’s about progress/modernity vs tradition! dracula has the appearance of a man and can pass in society, that’s part of what makes him so insidious!! (plus, having clemens Final Girl it to England to have him take up a vampire hunter mantle downplays the sheer scale of devastation dracula can wreak. part of the horror of that point of the novel is jonathan’s prior realization that if dracula gets to london, there is literally no stopping him. having someone escape the demeter proves that wrong and makes dracula seem weak and uninteresting, on par with someone accidentally letting a wild lion loose in a city or something.)
3) this characterization/character design of dracula. it leaned wayyyy too much in the direction of the vampire from midnight mass (which i love!! but not here), and as a result took away one of the primary horror aspects of the original story: that dracula has completely outplayed and overpowered the demeter crew. he’s smart!! he’s a character! he paid for his stuff to be sent to england with a bonus for timeliness! he has an address! you expect me to believe that a silent beast-creature version of dracula knows what london even is?? this is the same creature that has a centuries old family insignia and legal transport documents?? part of the horror of the story is that dracula has everything planned out and the crew is so, so in the dark and so, so outmatched. dracula is toying with them the entire time, and that’s part of what makes the eventual resignation and acceptance and bravery of the captain and crew so heart wrenching! this dracula can’t even shapeshift or control the weather!!
3a) the anna character was so fucking stupid and unneeded. first of all, the dracula we know and love has no need to pack a snack bc he PLANS TO FEED ON THE DEMETER CREW. why the fuck was this dracula feeding on the livestock when the humans were right there?? second of all, she just acted as an exposition mouthpiece to tell the crew what they’re up against and then give clemens some half-assed motivation at the end. i hate this bc A HUGE PART OF THE STORY’S HORROR IS THAT THE CREW HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THEY’RE FIGHTING — which makes their small victories and smart decisions that much sweeter for us to read. having a character info dump everything necessary takes away from the charm of the rest of the characters’ human spirits.
3b) for a film based on a kind of niche part of the dracula novel they sure didn’t keep any of the actual dracula lore. there was sunlight burning, crucifixes not working, no dracula animal transformation, transformation for those fed on even with regular blood transfusions (a whole part of the book is that the transfusions DO WORK as long as they’re regular/often enough?? wtf). i think part of this is the choice to frame dracula as some sort of mindless/natural beast, when the more spiritual aspects of stuff working against him in the book have to do with intelligence/rationality/human civilization (concepts of hell, damnation, societal constructs that have no room for him, etc). i was disappointed in this bc what’s the point of using the dracula text as a basis for a movie like this if you’re going to take out all the themes and instead just make it a man vs beast film like so many other horror movies?
3c) as a result of changing so much from the source material, a lot of plot holes that were already covered in the book opened up, which i mostly find frustrating from the standpoint that people who haven’t read the book are gonna be like “well why didn’t they do x?” when in the story they literally did!!
bonus: i did like some of the filmmaking choices! i liked that at first we thought olgaren’s “it burns” was about his growing thirst, and then we get really subtle/lovely shots of the sunlight as it rises before it destroys him. some of the film angles were really interesting — though i think there was too much use of slightly strange head-on shots — and i liked the choice to have clemens/the captain have to watch but be unable to do anything as toby is attacked/fed on. i liked the shot of dracula coming out of the fog at wojchek.
mostly it made me sad that they seemed to think audiences wouldn’t like the movie unless they made it more like a standard horror film, which does a disservice to both the source material and the movie this could’ve been :/
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Air Bud, Golden Receiver
Case for survival:
Ain't no rule says a dog can't survive Castle Dracula
Case against survival:
Ain't no rule says a dog can survive Castle Dracula
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If the wolves try to challenge him to a game of pickup he will definitely destroy them. If they attack him like wolves, he will definitely die
Because of his triple threat of being an athlete, having luscious, wavy blonde hair, and also being a super cute dog, the Girlies may actually drawn to him more than Dracula. They may even be persuaded to join his team.
If Dracula challenges Bud to a game Bud might lose if it's one-on-one, but if he manages to get the Girlies to join his rag-tag team of misfits then they'd pull off a miracle shot in the last quarter.
Incredible.
So Dracula is not above killing literal dogs, as a certain Whitby mastiff will attest. But can he defeat one in Basketball? Does Castle Dracula have a have a Basketball court? Maybe it should! Maybe if Dracula had a better rec room his solicitors wouldn't keep climbing the walls or rushing about madly like a rat in a trap. He can put it next to the swimming pool.
How is Dracula's Game? He's inhumanly strong and fast, and his propensity for yeeting is unparalleled. But does he have the precision? Hitting a window with a wolf is not exactly the same as making a 3 pointer. Also I have read that White Guys Can't Jump, and Dracula is very very pale. I believe the only time in the novel we see him jump is out the window of his Picadilly house. Oh, and making landfall at Whitby in dog form. Is Dogcula better matched against Air Bud than regular type? And whom are we rooting for? Dracula is a sore loser - if Air Bud beats him in a fair game he'll probably gut him out of spite. He's actually more likely to survive if he loses. Is Air Bud savvy enough to throw the game? Is he willing to compromise his principles by doing so??
Alternatively, if Dracula refuses to meet him on the court, can Air Bud survive two months in a stone prison with no opportunity to play Basketball? His whole identity is Air Bud. In Castle Dracula he's just... Bud. I have also read that Ball Is Life - how, then, can he live without Ball?
Air Bud is a golden retriever - but so was Arthur Holmwood, and I killed him. But Air Bud doesn't need to shave, and animal blood is not as attractive to vampires anyway. Unlike Mr Harker, Air Bud is unlikely to be perceived as either a snack or a snacc.
All natural animals hate Dracula. Will Dracula take pleasure in subduing him and bending him to his will? Is his plan to be the only guy in England with a basketball playing dog? Does he think it will keep the Girlies out of trouble if they have a pet to keep them company while he's gone? Can Air Bud's luscious locks and athletic prowess (and being a super cute dog) win them to his team?
I have just consulted with my Ridiculous Dog Media contact, who tells me that (a) Air Bud never loses and (b) absolutely cannot climb. And despite my contact's exhortations, I do not believe Air Bud can convince Dracula to heel-face turn upon learning that it's about the game and cameraderie.
So I must sadly conclude that Air Bud can not survive Castle Dracula, and even if he could, could never hope to escape it. I hope the Girlies like basketball.
Addendum: TIL that there are fourteen Air Bud movies. I... I think that's too many probably...
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love-liberty21 · 1 year
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So, is it too late to show you all my gorgeous new copy of Dracula?
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The whole page design is amazing.
Look at the first pages of Jonathan's diary, with all his little notes on the side (like "get recipe for Mina")
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An sure enough, it includes the recipe. (And 9 other amazing extras: A page of Stokers play script of Dracula, a map of Transsylvania ...). Also, the recipe of course includes a note that extra garlic can be added to keep vampires away.
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Also, letters, newspaper articles and telegrams in the book (plus Dogcula, because why not. Yes, Whitby folks, I'd wanna adopt this guy, too)
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In general, the illustrations are great
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flightfoot · 2 years
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Why do modern references to Dracula never acknowledge how often he likes to turn into a wolf?! I want more damn stories that have the townsfolk running around trying to adopt Good Boy Dogcula dammit.
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atundratoadstool · 2 years
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On the topic of both my long past Dracula fanfiction writing days and the circumstances surrounding Dogcula in today's reading, I'm bringing back a little snippet I posted here in 2013:
20 August, From the Journal of Mr. ———-, Chairman of the Whitby S.P.C.A
Despite having recently found a temporary placement for “Biscuit” with the charitable Mrs. ———-, the London society has had a lamentable lack of luck in permanently finding a home for the animal, given its past aggressive temperament. I fear that they may have to resort to euthanasia if a situation doesn’t soon present itself. Being in town recently, I had the rare opportunity to visit the old widow at her permanent home near Purfleet--to where she removed the animal after her stay in Whitby came to an end. She is a delightful woman and keeps a lovely house, although I confess that I find her dedication to religion a bit off-putting, as scarcely a room in the house was without some sort of garish trapping of the papacy. The brute, which she keeps muzzled after the unfortunate “incidents” relating to its capture, retains some of its vicious character, although its spirits seem deflated. She explained to me--with a voice betraying her utmost sympathy for the “poor dear”--that the animal hardly eats. I, myself, was certainly befuddled by the behavior it displayed. When I joined Mrs. ——— for an early supper, “Biscuit” seemed to grow agitated and frantic at the scent of the roast, only to dash angrily to a corner when presented with a piece. (A waste of a perfectly good portion of garlicked mutton, if you ask me!) The determined old matron did her utmost to convince it to partake, only to have her kindness and gentle coaxing repaid with muted snarls by the intemperate cur. I admit now that this might be a sad case beyond the Society’s ability to assist. I only hope that somebody better equipped than Mrs. ——— is able to take on this difficult animal.
22 August, Dr. Seward’s Diary
Nobody observed what became of it, but I do not quite take Renfield at his word when he insists that his new kitten has “run away.” He is currently pleading with me to procure for him a larger companion animal of some sort--something that will not so easily be misplaced.
He seemed most enthused, elated even, when I tentatively suggested a dog…
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elenazamos · 8 months
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Happy Dogcula day
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dracula only proves the inherent human urge to pet dog
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