#vourdalak

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Le Vourdalak Adrien Beau. 2023

Chapel ️ Prieuré du Sauvage, 12510 Druelle Balsac, France See in map

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#adrien beau #le vourdalak #vampire #puppet #chapel #france #druelle balsac #aveyron #occitania #kacey mottet klein #vassili schneider #vourdalak #movie #cinema #film #location #google maps #street view #2023

[see-arcane]

i really love your idea of Ghoul for Jonathan it's so good

Thank you! Honestly there are a ton of good monster/cryptid Jonathan ideas out there alongside the 'maybe he's a diet vampire?' theories. The ghoul thing (as I've rambled about before) is born of the whole 'suddenly taking on corpsey coloring' + 'the religious stuff doesn't hurt him and he seems to be All About killing the Count' = 'being generally more eerie and unsettling' = 'freaky creature that hunts the (un)dead and has no known issue with Christian paraphernalia' = that boy seems a bit ghoulish!

And while Dracula absolutely stole a drink the last night in the castle, I've never been 100% on that being a basis for Jonathan being any kind of pseudo vampire born of the Count's nibbling. It'd mean he was tethered to Dracula too, and for a longer period than Mina. But Dracula is shitting bricks enough to run from Jonathan rather than fight him with the kukri in hand. So he clearly suspects something is up with this young man that's worth worrying about. Even when Jonathan had scuttled down the side of the house and was giving chase entirely solo ahead of the others, Dracula never turned to fight him.

Sounds like the kind of thing a walking corpse would do if he knew a ghoul was chasing him with his giant cutlery out.

...But, in hindsight, I can also see a different kind of Semi-Vampire!Jonathan in action here. One that's even more worrisome than Dracula's implied brand of vampire, the Romanian strigoi. Say, the same kind of pallid, washed-out vampires we see in, "The Family of the Vourdalak," by Alexei Tolstoy.

A story which involves vampires who are immune to traditional vampire destruction methods like being staked through the heart, et cetera, and focus obsessively on 'collecting' their loved ones and mercilessly slaughtering anyone else.

As an aside, the eponymous vourdalak vampire (note, more appropriately spelled 'wurdulac', being based on the Russian vampire, but we'll use vourdalak for the gothic lit spelling), Gorcha, is introduced carrying the severed head of a man he was hunting in the mountains.

As another aside, it's implied at the climax that this breed of vampire is bound to their homes/physical location they were turned, meaning the whole village of these washed out, corpse-eyed undead are only a threat to those who enter their territory. Or those who threaten to take away their loved ones.

As another other aside, in, "Dracula's Guest," Stoker's unused prologue to the novel, we see Jonathan come across an undead village in Munich. One that pours out a hoard of vampires from their graves in a wild tide. He blacks out during this; then he wakes to Dracula the Wolf laying on top of him just outside the village's boundary. The story mentions the Wolf licking his throat and the soldiers who find Jonathan notice a mark on his neck.

Now, this could be Dracula taking a first sip long before Mr. Harker gets to the castle; a token for his troubles in keeping the solicitor safe. And maybe that's all it was.

Or else those vampires were not strigoi at all, but something a touch more territorial. Sturdier. Obsessive. Corpse-colored. Driven by love and loathing at their greatest extremes.

The vourdalaks of the short story are shown to need full death for their turning. Jonathan, if he was purely hypothetically bitten by such a vampire before his rescue, would not be at risk of full conversion until the day he died. Certainly not enough to make him an anchored undead bloodsucker. ...But perhaps enough to start suffering some noticeable changes once certain Dracula-shaped stimuli began setting things off.

Which presents the lovely idea of Dracula not just running from a group of vampire hunters, but a group including one very pissed off even worse vampire-in-the-making whose whole deal is 1) Being nigh indestructible and riddled with super strength, 2) Wholly unstoppable when it comes to killing anyone who isn't a loved one; especially someone who just did a great big no-no by biting his wife, and 3) Isn't undead enough to be hampered by the territory rule.

Whether Jonathan's a Semi-Ghoul or a Guaranteed-to-Fuck-You-Up brand of Semi-Vampire, Dracula screwed up regardless, because either way he's now got Gothic Horror Jason Voorhees coming after his head.

#Dracula: You know what maybe it was a bad idea to become this guy's villain origin story after all #jonathan harker #monster jonathan harker #ghoul #vourdalak #wurdulac #vampire jonathan theory #dracula #dracula daily

[moramaisis]

Le Vourdalak 2023 France

#horror film #horror movie #horror movies #vampire horror #such a strange movie #artsy and has those 80s fairytale movie vibes....kinda #very folk horror or dark fairytale #also slow and old-fashioned #le vourdalak #vourdalak #folk horror

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d'Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.

#the vourdalak (2023) #vampire #2020s #france #european movie #horror #movies #poll #more than 50% havent heard

[ferdydurke]

i remember when u mentioned it like last year or whenever that was when u saw it at that festival (i think? or just ur classes?) and i tried to look it up and it was nowhereeeee online 🤕🤕🤕 is it worth checking into again..

I legit search for it like every month 😭 afaik it only showed at two movie festivals and the one i went to was one of em, it was avilable online for a short time but not anymore... if i ever find it or screen record it im definitely gonna post about it but 😭

#ask #theres so many movies that i saw once and cant stop thinking about 😭 but you cant even buy them anywhere #vourdalak... un prince 😔 #if only mubi had all the movies theyve ever had avilable always. imagine that world...

[stheresya]

Aleksey Tolstoy's short story The Family of the Vourdalak offers the most sinister and my absolute favorite take on the vampire myth so far. In this story the vourdalak works as the slavic version of the vampire, but what differentiates it from its most known bloodsucking peers is that when a vourdalak comes back to life they seek primarily the blood of the people they used to love in their previous life. And I find that so fascinating because in early vampire stories like Dracula we see that a vampire retains their human memories but lose all human attachment to them and care only about feeding on anything alive, while the vourdalak is a vampire whose feelings of love gets twisted into one of hunger. You loved those people in life, you shall consume them in death because you loved them life.

#the family of the vourdalak #aleksey tolstoy #gothic fiction #lit 📚 #vampires

[tsartomato]

Вурдалаки (2017) [Vurdalaki]

It is an okay movie, but whatever they advertised for or what was in pre-prod\1st version — was turned into an action movie. Though action scenes are dead by thousand cuts. It looks cheap and the script is weak (the characters could just use tons of holy-water instead) but it’s inoffensive and enjoyable.

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#Cinematheatre #La Famille du Vourdalak. Fragment inedit des Memoires d&039;un inconnu #Video #Vurdalaki (2017)

[wiltkingart]

Simon Belmont for @vourdalak

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#simon belmont #castlevania #castlevania chronicles #commissions #digital #original art #fanart #this guy's design is insane. so happy i got the opportunity to draw him :')))

[vickyvicarious]

You know that thing early vampire fiction does sometimes for vampires, where they have a kind of hypnotic beauty/captivating presence, especially when they are actively hypnotising someone... but that attraction is intrinsically mingled with a feeling of instinctive repulsion/fear as well?

Yeah, that thing. I find it very cool.

Seldom did Walter quit Brunhilda's side: a nameless spell seemed to attach him to her; even the shudder which he felt in her presence, and which would not permit him to touch her, was not unmixed with pleasure, like that thrilling awful emotion felt when strains of sacred music float under the vault of some temple; he rather sought, therefore, than avoided this feeling.

--Wake Not The Dead, Johann Ludwig Tieck (1823)

I experienced a strange tumultuous excitement that was pleasurable, ever and anon, mingled with a vague sense of fear and disgust. I had no distinct thoughts about her while such scenes lasted, but I was conscious of a love growing into adoration, and also of abhorrence. This I know is paradox, but I can make no other attempt to explain the feeling.

--Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1871)

As she said this, Sdenka looked so ravishing that my vague sense of foreboding turned into a strong desire to remain near her. A strange, almost sensual feeling, part fear, part excitement, filled my whole being.

--The Family of the Vourdalak, Aleksei Tolstoy (1884)

There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips.

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With a mocking smile, he placed one hand upon my shoulder and, holding me tight, bared my throat with the other, saying as he did so, 'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet; it is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!' I was bewildered, and, strangely enough, I did not want to hinder him. I suppose it is a part of the horrible curse that such is, when his touch is on his victim. 

--Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897)

#vampires #i feel like lord ruthven for one inspires this kind of feeling too at least a little but there isn't exactly an equivalent passage #clarimonde also isn't on here #bc he pretty much has no internal hesitation/distress about her it's all external/mental rather than instinctive #there's probably some kind of succubus thing going on with this but i just find it fun

[balu8]

Cases of Sherlock Holmes #3: The Strange Adventure of the Vourdalak

by Gordon Derry and Dan Day

Renegade Press

#renegade press #cases of sherlock holmes #dan day gordon derry #comics #art

[andycart]

this was a gift for my buddy @vourdalak !!!!

#simon belmont #<--- i think thats his name #his outfit owns #castlevania

[detournementsmineurs]

“Le Vourdalak” d'Adrien Beau - d'après “La Famille du Vourdalak” d'Alexis Konstantinovitch Tolstoï (circa 1840) - avec Kacey Mottet-Klein, Ariane Labed, Vassili Schneider, Grégoire Colin, Claire Duburcq et le jeune Gabriel Pavie, novembre 2023.

#films #vampires #gothic #xviiie siècle #Beau #Tolstoi #MottetKlein #Labed #Schneider #Colin #Duburcq #Pavie

[see-arcane]

The Wurdulak are even more wolflike than the austro-hungarian-romanian vampires so it makes sense loyalty and guarding territory is prominent

--Dolingen and the undead village making their sales pitch to the Harkers in case they wanted to give vampirism another shot

#Jonathan and Mina get yearly invites in the post from them #the envelopes have worrisomely rusty stains and grave dirt on them #they can't help being vampire catnip #countess dolingen #wurdulak #vourdalak #dracula's guest #the family of the vourdalak #dracula

[tpthvn]

Le Vourdalak / The Vourdalak Adrien Beau, 2023

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

Stats from Movies 1001-1100

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Pet Sematary (1989) had the most votes with 921 votes. I Know What You Need (2023) had the least votes with 310 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Sleepy Hollow (1999) was the most watched film with 56.4% of voters out of 424 saying they had seen it. Saint Drogo (2023) had the least "Yes" votes with 0.2% of voters out of 495.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

They/Them (2022) was the least watched film with 62.8% of voters out of 682 saying they hadn’t seen it. I Know What You Need (2023) had the least "No" votes with 5,2% of voters out of 310.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Pet Sematary (1989) was the best known film, 3,8% of voters out of 921 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

I Know What You Need (2023) was the least known film, 94.2% of voters out of 310 saying they’d never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

What Josiah Saw (2021) It Comes at Night (2017) Something in the Dirt (2022) Lisa Frankenstein (2024) The Toxic Slime Creature (1982) The House of the Devil (2009) The Dark and the Wicked (2020) Shin Godzilla (2016) Run (2020) Nine Dead (2009)

The Addiction (1995) The Guardian (1990) Open 24 Hours (2018) Here Comes Hell (2019) Sweet Home (2015) Like Dogs (2021) The Stylist (2020) Saint Drogo (2023) Girl on the Third Floor (2019) Evil Bong (2006)

The Hunger (1983) Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988) Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 (2022) Bed Rest (2022) Witchhammer (1970) Leonor (1975) Cold Skin (2017) The Vourdalak (2023) Blood for Dracula (1974) Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003) The Dirties (2013) The Vigil (2019) Storm of the Century (1999) Infinity Pool (2023) The Final Wish (2018) Devil (2010) Uzumaki (2000) Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023) Blood Red Sky (2021)

The Finale (2023) The People Under the Stairs (1991) Eli (2019) Autopsy (2008) Sleepy Hollow (1999) The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror (2007) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Paganini Horror (1988) Titane (2021) Burying the Ex (2014)

They Remain (2018) Vicious Fun (2020) Vivarium (2019) Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018) Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire (2019) Summer of '84 (2018) A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) Sweet Sixteen (1983) Popcorn (1991) April Fool's Day (1986)

Eerie (2018) Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Greener Grass (2019) The Innocents (2021) Dark Harvest (2023) Häxan (1922) Dark Light (2019) Arthur, Malédiction (2022) Polaroid (2019) Antisocial (2013)

Headless Horseman (2007) Radius (2017) Goblin (2020) Havenhurst (2016) The ABCs of Death (2012) Abandoned Dead (2015) Pet Sematary (1989) Dark Water (2005) Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023) Witches Straight From Hell (2023)

Belzebuth (2017) Fade to Black (1980) Scanners (1981) Blood Punch (2013) Cannibals and Carpet Fitters (2017) Split (2016) Game of Death (2017) Paperhouse (1988) The Baby (1973) Splatter: Naked Blood (1996)

A Perfect Child of Satan (2012) Blair Witch (2016) Night of the Devils (1972) I Know What You Need (2023) Midnight Son (2011) Slaxx (2020) They/Them (2022) The Darkness (2016) Wind Chill (2007) Crypt of the Vampire (1964)

#recap

[see-arcane-scribbles]

I am so ready for this!

A request: Dracula is the only horror I've read, the other classics I'm only familiar with via pop culture. What do you recommend so that I could appreciate the references you're going to make?

Hoo boy. Let me refer to the Stack (c). While I'm taking a lot of inspiration from general monster myth and folklore, some of the key classic horror stories I've been harvesting bones from include:

"The Vampyre," by John William Polidori

"La Morte Amoureuse," (or, in English, "Clarimonde") by Théophile Gautier

"The Family of the Vourdalak," by A. K. Tolstoy

"Carmilla," by Sheridan le Fanu

"Dracula's Guest," (Dracula's scrapped prologue!) by Bram Stoker

"Aurelia; or The Tale of a Ghoul," by E. T. A. Hoffman

Happy reading!

#me: I'm writing a horror novel for myself and others to enjoy :) #also me; slamming 100+ year old literature on all your desks: Here is the homework you'll need to do for maximum enjoyment :) #I kid #the context should be clear regardless when Certain Events and Characters happen #but reading some of the supernatural classics beforehand will provide a happy Easter egg feeling #literature #barking harker #dracula #dracula daily #my writing #jonathan harker #horror