Atun-Shei's Dracula
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- An in-depth analysis of Dracula, the original 1897 book by Bram Stoker, possibly the most influential horror novel ever written. Why has the Count enjoyed such longevity in popular culture? What made Dracula so scary for Victorian readers? And what - pray tell - makes vampires so attractive?
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~REFERENCES~
[1] “Dracula Movies” (2016). IMDB www.imdb.com/list/ls058255047/
[2] Leslie S. Klinger. The New Annotated Dracula (2008). W.W. Norton & Company, Page xvi
[3] Klinger, Page xxi
[4] Dr. Andrzej Diniejko. “Slums and Slumming in Late-Victorian London.” The Victorian Web www.victorianweb.org/history/s...
[5] Gill Davies. “London in Dracula; Dracula in London” (2004). Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, Volume 2 Number 1 www.literarylondon.org/london-...
[6] Klinger, Page xxxii-xli
[7] “An 1897 Review of Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (2019). Literary Hub bookmarks.reviews/an-1897-rev...
[8] “The Spectator’s Review of Dracula, 1897” (2012). The Spectator www.spectator.co.uk/article/t...
[9] Holly Furneaux. “Victorian Se•ualities” (2014). British Library www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victo...
[10] Klinger, Page xvii-xviii
[11] Greg Buzwell. “Daughters of Decadence: The New Woman in the Victorian Fin De Siécle” (2014). British Library www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victo...
CORRECTION: Bram Stoker was a member of the Church of Ireland, not a Catholic. My mistake, and thanks to the people who pointed that out!
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How... is your comment from 16 hours ago?
He's a time traveler
So happy I found your channel, question: if you could choose from a medal/cap badge/military buckle, or bayonet from any period/side for a humble blacksmith/fan to make for you, what would it be?
yes
why do people use bitly
The fact that the phrase “Dracula gets stabbed to death by a cowboy with a Bowie knife” is completely accurate is probably one of my favorite things about this book
Did I just watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure? I guess that sounds like something out of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Csgo vibes
You know, I read Dracula a long time ago and recall thinking when he was killed, "Bowie knife? Shouldn't that be a stake? Uh, I guess it worked..." Maybe not!
@@theghoul2303
Well it did happen, just in reverse
Blond Dracula wannabe stabs by throwing a knife at the throat of British American cowboy after said cowboy covered himself in purple vines that conduct the power of the sun
I also heard there was a reference to coca cola
Now do "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter"! Checkmate, Johnny Reb!
Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies was great. Which was the Knock off film. I've never actually gotten around to watching Vampire Hunter, is it any good?
We all know Van Hellsing was named after his great grandpappy Lincoln.
@@Strawberry92fs Eh, not really. More like a good basis for a drinking game.
That's such a good book. It's like the Shaun of the Dead of literature. Come for the comedy, stay for the genuinely spooky horror. Great commentary on the vampiric nature of slavery
@@AtunSheiFilms wait that's a book as well? I need to check this out.
"Dracula is whoever we need him to be"- Atun-Shei "I'm Batman"- Dracula
"Where's Martha"!!!
“Alucard. Dr. Alucard actually.
VampireBatman
Haven't even started the video but I have to say that is some phenomenal makeup!
Contrapoints of historical TH-cam?
I love anime crossovers.
Gotta say, if you’re being spotted by Rackam, you’ve done shit right.
Hey it’s the Rack Man
Do I have a Heavy Metal band for you.
I played Van Helsing in a high school version of “Dracula: The Musical!” At one point when Dracula is advancing on me I pull a out a cross and Dracula stops, stunned. He then pulls out an O in retaliation. I quickly move upstage to a great window and I place my cross on one of the panes. He advances behind me and places his O to block mine in another other pane. I draw another cross and place it on a pane adjacent to my own determined to outwit the demon but he counters mine with yet another O. The game of wits ends in a cats game and some song and dance.
Your Victorian disapproval is weak. If my high school production is to be booed then I’d prefer it from an Elizabethan groundling: A hurled vegetable or two and “EH! Ye feckin’ play is shite!”
The gamer in me would yell "PRO STRATS BRAH"
I had the best bellowing guffaw sort of laugh while reading your comment. I didn't know there was a Dracula musical. The tic-tac game is beautifully absurd. Why is nobody else shouting "Brilliant!" at you. My applause is ridiculously quick and earnest.
From the court of Vienna to the wonders of Paris' theaters have I saw things of such panache and elegant eloquence. Don't mind the narrow spirit of the New World's brutes and other Irishmen. You, kind sir, have made my evening
You played tic tac toe?
"This man belongs to me"... um this subtext its rapidly becoming text
three amourous women advancing upon you, the horror!
Kinky..
That just SCREAMS gay submissive. Like, oh Honey, if Henry Irving wasn't enough to tell us he might be Bisexual, that dream CERTAINLY WAS LMAOOO.
@@SkullPrism right? I thought that was going in a “and they were the closest of friends” direction
Jfc. Not everythings gay.
YOU BROUGHT BACK THE CHICK FROM ALIEN BABY!!!!!! SHES SO COOOOOOOL!
I concur. She's great, I wouldn't mind her in a Checkmate Lincolnite video.
@@LadyTylerBioRodriguez It would be really cool if he did! She's such an amazing actress!
@@thisisdum123 Very much so. I can see her going places.
"We aren't afraid of Romanians, right?"
I don't know, man. There's something about them speaking a Romance Language that gives me the willies.
Boo *but in Romanian*
*Nigel Farage enters the chat*
@@varangiangaming7178 *_AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!_*
Cand cel mai popular personaj Roman este creat de un Irlandez si are loc in partea Romaniei care pe atunci apartinea Austro-Ungariei.
No, except for the undead corpse of Vlad the impailer.
This is automatically the best Dracula adaptation ever. You got the mustache right! Why does everyone else forget the mustache?
Dracula has a Fu-Manchu mustache, but Fu-Manchu does not. Wouldn't it be so much cooler if we called it a Dracula mustache?
@@kategrant2728 You’re hired!
@@kategrant2728 we should call it the "draculatche" or something like that.
Because grooming fashions of the time changed from 1897 to 1933, and maintained until just recently. To give you an idea, much of the 20th century associated facial hair with poor hygiene to the point that Rex Harrison refused to grow or wear a beard in “The Agony and the Ecstasy”, despite Pope Julius II famously having a magnificent beard in reality.
Jess Franco’s Dracula with Christopher Lee has one
Reading 'The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century' I found out that in the later 1380s a small company of English archers found their way to serve in a garrison on the southern borders of Transylvania, and if that doesn't sound like the premise to a top-hole historical sitcom then frankly I don't know what does!
When is production starting?
@@striker8961 as soon as someone buys my blasted script, I should hope
@@sirfintanelmrisofcoanwood5245 ahhh I'm sure you'll get there :)
Dad that's his crotch
Ohhh! What chapter/page is the section you refer to?
The most hotly anticipated film of the season amongst strange metrosexual history buffs
the fuck is metrosexual? I'm just stupid.
@@OpalBLeigh ok
@@Butter_Warrior99 when a man takes care if his appearance, sex appeal, health. In a... How do I said this? In sometimes offputing way for our grandparents and parents standards of masculinity.
For example Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham, they were the Golden standard of metrosexuals back un the earlier 2000s
@@Butter_Warrior99 It’s the modern day equivalent of a dandy
@@DavidSilva-mn4dz , I'm still to stupid to understand but thank you for the explanation.
I thought you were going to tie in the discussion of his especially close friendship with the confirmed bachelor in this theater troupe. We can't ignore the possibility that he was writing about the overpowering thirst given to him by the nighttime bite of a lascivious man.
In his dream, he is rescued from demonic women by a man claiming ownership over him. Stoker was in the bottom of the closet next to the Christmas decorations
not to mention the letter he sent to Walt Whitman (widely believed to be homosexual) that has huge homoerotic undertones
Personally the best part about Dracula for me was this line from him, “Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past, is it not so?” It was to his Vampire Brides who taunted him and said he couldn’t love. Dracula at his core was a person who achieved great power and even learned Scholomance, yet still desired someone to come back too like the ideal woman talked about. Though as seen, vampirism transforms someone into a demon, no longer controlling of themselves. All the women Dracula transformed were once people he loved and cared for, each time transforming them so he may be with them forever. Only for himself to lose his love every time, to a demented creature in their place. I believe Dracula is a sad figure awash with power and no one to share it with, a lonely person who pushes forward because there is nothing else for them to do. Truthfully a brilliant man yet alone and depressed on account of sin, believing the next conquest would fix his depression.
That’s basically the plot of the 2019 Netflix version. Dracula keeps turning people into vampires because he’s trying to find a bride, but they all turn into insane ghouls. He then gets the hots for Johnathan Harker because he’s the only one who seems able to keep his mind in tact through the transformation.
@@MadHatter42 also the “Castlevania” series’s hook is that Drac goes bananas when the Church kills his (human) wife.
except that Dracula himself is just as much a twisted figure. What there was of his former self is corrupted in the same way as the women he turns. It's even implied that what shadow there is of his better nature is actively seeking his own destruction not seeking someone to share his power with
I must call the Witch Finder General at one! “Mr. Witch Finder, I found the heathen Catholics and witches! They must be delivered to the in the magistrate in the shire in which they dwell!
when reading the book last year, I was surprised at the drug use by protagonists. Chloral Hydrate and Laudnum, administered by Dr.Seward. "is your sleep paralysis caused by dracula, or is it because you've been taking massive doses of Laundnum?" I wondered. What if there is no dracula, our heroes are just a group of upper class drug addicts.
That's an interesting take. I started it in high school and didn't finish, so I'm planning to revisit it. But that was sort of what I was thinking of those other scenes in this video, that the wandering guy seems very much like he was on drugs, and his pupils seemed dilated. At the beginning we see him just wandering, then he asks a stranger for a cigarette. That stranger rubs something on his face and in his mouth. He appears in the next scenes to hallucinate, then to get sick, then in a sort of stupor, then disoriented and possibly hallucinating again (what does he see on the overturned monument? Bugs?). Then he seems to be in withdrawals, and the devil appears and he seems almost euphoric and it's like he's given himself over to the addiction and it's willing to put up with anything to feed it.
Idk, I could be wrong, that's just how it hit my brain. At the very first glance I thought the green person was corona virus, but that didn't really make sense with the rest of the scenes.
I was coming to that conclusion watching this video. If we question the reliability of the narrators, a more interesting question than if Dracula faked his own death is, what if Dracula wasn't a vampire at all. Maybe an occult weirdo perhaps but...
What if these documents paint the picture of an upper class clique that's been disrupted by the arrival of one of their business associates from Transylvania. He seduces two of them, cucks another, and from this, and taken in by a charlatan and quack in the form of Van Helsing, take their revenge in a murder plot under the moral leeway provided by labeling the man a 'vampire'.
Jonathan's working class. Peter Hawkins states he "has grown into manhood in my service." In other words, he'd worked as a clerk for Hawkins since childhood, which is why he writes entirely in shorthand.
@@bethanyeschen-pipes3667 thanks Bethany, you are right.
That is what people used to do tbf, I mean have you heard of snuff boxes?
Sir, speaking as a longtime student of "Dracula", I must say that you understand the narrative better than dozens of scholars I've read. Your final line, "You have to give in," conveys the essential ingredient of the vampiric conversion as well as demonic possession--complicity. The individual must be willing. Dracula seduces his victims, but it is a seduction by terror. Like the character in your movie section, he gives in at the end because giving in seems the only way out.
Bravo on a well thought out video.
"Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will."
fuck this is a great take
so he's like a cop getting a confession.
Last time I was this early, the Ottomans were about to conquer Wallachia
Better pay attention more to Mathias Corvinus and Jan Hunyadi
*yawns*
hmmm......is it 1358 yet?
@@MrCmon113 Lmao, that's literally just about all the comments under any videos about that one Luke Evans Dracula movie.
I understood that reference to the movie Dracula (yes I know vlad the impaler was the original meaning)
Lol
I've said it once and ill say it again; if your Dracula adaptation DOESNT HAVE A COWBOY, then its a bad adaptation 🧛♂️🗡🤠
There were some pretty crazy Cowboy Vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the series, not the cheesy movie).
I agree with this message
Friendly remember that in the novel Dracula can turn into a werewolf, seduce women *and* men (I mean, Renfield calls him “master” and is “entered” by him; we know what was happening in that asylum cell), still has Wallachian serfs to chauffeur his dirty coffin, has his “daughters” rape real estate agent Jonathan Harker, kills everyone on a ship and commandeers it to England, casually walks on walls, and gets killed by a cowboy, an old Dutchman, the real estate agent, and the curator of an insane asylum.
What I’m saying is that Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” starring Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder, and Gary Oldman, as well as a reincarnation subplot, is somehow the most accurate adaptation yet.
James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd) did a video a while back comparing several adaptations of Dracula to the novel, and was also surprised how accurate Coppola's film turned out to be, but he docked points for all the stuff it added. I was always impressed by Nosferatu, considering that it was an unlicensed silent film adaptation and other than changing the ending, didn't seem to suffer much more plot compression than many later adaptations.
The most accurate is one of the bbc versions but it's kinda dull compared to the Coppola film.
Been saying this for years (chit...decades). Other than the lovey-dovey Mina redeeming Drac stuff, it's easily the most true to the book movie Hollywood has churned out. It even captures Atun-Shei's point regarding vampire Lucy being basically a feral animal rather that some kind of "liberated woman."
By the sounds we should Let It Be The Only One we watch...
Werewolf DICK
That scene awoke something in the minds of some poor 13 year olds
This might be one of your best ones.
The shot of the cursed guy and the vampire underneath the American flag bathed in a red moonlight is something so surreal and creepy and brilliant that I am honestly not surprised it came out of your head.
Keep up the high production value and the good work.
(Also best product placement in all of YT, and with the girl from "Alien, Baby!" too, so fuckin great)
That shot has insane Kubrick vibes to it, I love it
It gave me vibes of a mixture of Pulse (2001) and A Field in England 😳
What was that at the very end? Cu...?m
I'm pretty sure the figure in the final scene was Satan, not a vampire.
Also, that flag had the freemason symbol on it...
Good reference to The Mummy in that ad
"You came back from the desert with a new friend, didn't you, Beni?"
"What friend? You're my only friend"
Your ending here is basically why, since reading the book, I can't stand any version of Dracula that tries to make him heroic or even antiheroic. He's such a despicable manipulative rape-tastic monster in the book that romanticizing it just feels...wrong. Even assuming that some of the narrators are unreliable (Seward definitely is unlikable as a modern reader with a mental illness) you're still left with someone who uses and abuses everyone around for him his own ends. I feel like in our era it's maybe time to recapture Dracula as a metaphor for all the users and abusers who just seem impossible to stop in our own society.
It reminds me of Putin.
This is a terrific comment. An effective modern dracula adaptation would drop much of the victorian fluff inherited from Bram Stoker and the long line of dracula movies, and have a dracula who embodies our modern forms of love for power, selfishness, abuse, and refusal to recognize any limits. A monster which puts on a self-actualized facade and who scares us because the heroes will be tempted to want to be him and be with him, but who uses his feigned charm to prey on the vulnerable. That would be a good 21st century Dracula. Today we fear SA, gaslighting, manipulation, grooming, and hate, so the vampire should embody those things.
This and Overly Sarcastic Productions video on Dracula are the best when discussing the original book of Dracula.
Agreed
*Van Helsing serious face intensifies*
That Babel ad was LEGIT one of the most authentic things I've ever seen. You're an incredible filmmaker!
You know I never pictured that Dracula quote coming from a east European grandma, but now I cant unsee my great grandma saying it lmao
Personally I like Leslie Nielsens "Dracula: Dead and loving it"
Hilarious!😂
Haven't got around to seeing that film, the mind control isnhysterical!
Do you have _Nosferatu_?
*Mel Brooks
@@drewcurtis5779 I mean, Leslie is the star of the movie, so it IS possible to say it the way OP did.
Normally I roll my eyes at the paid advertisements....but that was actually pretty slick. You got me.
I think the biggest problem people have with Bram Stoker's Dracula is... they know that they are reading Bram Stoker's Dracula. I wish I could somehow throw out of my brain all the Dracula lore I know and read the book straight but alas I cannot.
Exactly! For us, even if we dropped the name Dracula, it is clear what he is from the very first line that describes him because our perception of what is a vampire is derived from these descriptions. I imagine that for a Victorian, the mystery of what is Dracula would be a great part of the horror.
Jonathan, Mina and the count: * in bed together*
Everyone: * surprised pikachu face*
My brain: ITS NOT GAY WHEN ITS IN A THREEWAY
Depends entirely on what touches what.
@@morganrobinson8042
In the dark, nothing is truly known...
Jonathan was vastly asleep...
As someone that actually lives in Romania, Transylvania I clicked on this the first second it got uploaded.
How is it? I would love to visit some day
Just a correction at 25:00: Stoker was a born a member of the Protestant/Anglican Church of Ireland, not a Roman Catholic
Production quality on these videos are insane, some of the best I've seen on TH-cam.
Hello there.
Watching during torrential rain in a brutal thunderstorm. Perfect setting.
Personal canon, the blood fusions seemed useful at first, but actually quickened Lucy's death. Because they were just four years off discovering bloody types are a thing while they gave her the blood from four different people!
EDIT: Damn. I see this was actually acknowledged in the video. Still I'd like to point out that blood transfusions where very cutting edge at the time and as I mentioned in the first part of my comment, the discovery of Blood Types was only a few scant years after the publication.
50:45 The scene in the above ground graveyard with the undead unable to escape their crypts banging and wailing went the extra mile of unsettling. Those are the children of the night...no release.
Damn Schools gonna have to wait for an hour I have to watch this.
The mental connection between Dracula and Mina is very intriguing. She knows things about him that she doesn't tell. However, I think he recognizes her as his most dangerous enemy and an asset to him. That doesn't imply "love", of course. Great video. Great interpretation. And great Dracula look.
Naaah. He's pulling his punches because he's in love with Jonathan. A lot of his decisions come across as "I MUST NEUTRALIZE THIS THREAT TO MY LIFE ... oh, Jonathan's in the line of fire. Nevermind." He straight-out told Mina that he was intending for her to become a slave. The most logical way to handle the threat that Team Helsing pose to him is to use Mina to slaughter the lot of them. He doesn't. He instead flees back to Romania, letting his Mina and Van Helsing spy upon HIM.
I grew up on the old classic horrors, so I was pretty shocked when I first read Dracula thirty-odd years ago. Loved the book, but it still boggles my mind how vampires in general and Dracula in particular has changed over the years.
This may in fact be the best spooky video I've ever seen, and is certainly the most gripping youtube video I've watched all year- not once was I compelled to check twitter, nor do something else while listening in the background. A+ work as always!
anyone want to talk about how the vampire at the end just explodes on that guys face
Damn, your description of Victorian hypocrisy, as a co-efficient of material conditions was some of the best writing I have encountered since reading Engels, nevermind TH-cam.
"And now you are under my influence my dear, go maketh me a sammich!" Neckbeard Dracula
He's not the vampire we deserve, just the one we need right now
I love how, while being on something completely unrelated, this explains the set up of the Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls perfectly.
Del Toro's The Strain did the vampirism as infection that enslaves its victims. The adaptation started good.
The best vampire movie is what we do in the shadows
Vampires don’t do dishes
@@pisstrooper2721 we’re werewolves not swearwolves
I call this style “dead and delicious”
Don’t forget the series!
@@simongr63 like Twilight
Dated a beautiful Romanian nurse for a couple of years. Wonderful lady, intelligent, hard working professional and a great sense of humor.
And she only bit if I asked her to.
You might’ve avoided being turned into a vampire.
Damn shame.
I would love to see the Witch Finder General go full Van Helsing and hunt vampires
Something that just occurred to me: Dracula could be seen as a dark reflection of *both* sides of Victorian London. There’s the sense of superiority, the wealth and power, and the casual cruelty; all the worst aspects of those in the upper class. But there’s also the blasphemy, degeneracy, and complete contempt for any standards of decency; all the worst aspects of those in the lower class. Very few people would actually display any of these traits, but it only takes a few bad actors to give a stereotype real power. The way I see it, Dracula is almost designed to be a representation of what you fear, what you hate, what makes you feel disgust.
This.... this was actually very insightful. And yeah; I wish more movies would explore what you said at the end - how what makes Dracula so evil and sinister is that he doesn't just want to kill you, but to dominate you, enslave you, and take away your agency. Essentially, to CLAIM you.
Great video, sir. Dracula is one of my favorite books. I have never heard the Quincy as a stooge theory before. I'm going to need to do some reading.
Re-reading it with that in mind makes it impossible to look at it another way (at least for me). During the first "council of war" scene, a bullet crashes through the window and barely misses Van Helsing. Quincey's outside going, "whoops sorry everybody I thought I saw a bat." Suuuure you did cowpoke
@@AtunSheiFilms I'm not sure about Quincy being the stooge, but I could believe that there was actually a stooge in the group. My money is more on Seward.
Thanks for reminding me that Farage still exists, the most nightmarish thing in that film. Apart from that brilliant as ever!
This is an amazing analysis, please do more of these, I especially like the part where you talked about the culture of the time period.
Suggestions, Beowulf, The Scarlet Letter, maybe Roman or Medieval culture of some kind. Perhaps a book set in the early american frontier, 1700s - 1830s time period.
Honestly you should have your own slot in the history channel explaining literature and history, I'd watch it.
I love how faithful the mustache is
The whole video is great but the commercial was glorious. I lost it at 'Господи помилуй!'
Also the bit about his baba making ćevapi...every day I become more and more convinced that our boy is Serbian lmao
Somebody give this man a script for a low budget horror flick!
Any fellow Dracula nerds who haven't should check out the Powers of Darkness. It's the Icelandic version of Dracula with some really interesting wrinkles like Drac having servants in the castle, Johnathans time there is expanded, and a cult in London that serves Dracula. Also a bonus for me Stokers hand written notes are in a museum in Philadelphia. Got to see them a while back when I went to see a presentation there by Brahms great grand nephew promoting his excellent prequel Dracul.
You've become my favorite youtuber, I always go there on my notification tabs to see if you had uploaded something I don't do with any other youtuber, thank you, your videos have taught me so much, and held me up through these troubled times of social isolation.
Mina developed a scar on her forehead and a telepathic link with her attacker... Hmm sounds familiar
almost choked on my coffee when i realized the mummy-part was a babbel ad. chapeau, monsieur!^^
why did that man get glue squirted on his face can anyone explain? only asking because my mom's boyfriend used to put on movies with the same ending, weirdly enough
I can see your parents took a straightforward approach to your sex education.
People seem to be giving it a sexual spin, but put simply I think the hooded figure was supposed to be either a vampire or a demon, and the glue was actually the hooded figure's blood. It was the beginning of some kind of pact between them.
@@Stardweller1 I mean it looked a bit too light to be blood, but also you see the hooded figure bringing claws to their wrist, giving credence to blood. And there's the whole drinking the blood of a vampire thing also.
Might be some form of vampire spreading it's infection to others.
so looking at this from a Victorian mindset, would the lower class even be afraid of Dracula or would this have just more reason to resent the upper class? If not Dracula himself, would the upper-class fear more the mirror the novel put in front of them reflecting their underlying degenerate behavior? It does seem like the critics at the time were doing a better job of distancing themselves from the story then actually being critical of it. Much like someone being offended by a joke because it hit to close to home fort hem.
If you like that interpretation, you will love the Hammer Films Blood for Dracula.
50:39 no cap almost made shake in fear. If I saw that in real live I'm pulling out my cross and saying every prayer I know.
Something I've noticed and come to love is how Japan, specifically anime, manga, and video games spin their takes on Dracula. Phantom Blood of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Castlevania are two personal favorites.
BRUH IVE BEEEN ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT WAITING FOR THIS.
Same bruh
I still love this two years later. Just a gay goth who loves how you bring all the threads of horror together to remind me why I adore Dracula still to this day at 35 as much as I did when i read it at 14.
Old horror is the best! Even ancient Mesopotamian myths are awesome.
The ad in the middle of this made to look like a scene from an old horror film is genuinely the best TH-cam product promotion I have ever seen, I hope you got paid extra for that.
So how much does ones reading of Dracula change if we suppose a woman inspired the book more then a man? There has been an interesting school of thought that Stoker as you said took the name Dracula and little else, and the character was perhaps cribbing more from Vlads Hungarian counterpart, Elizabeth Bathory. She was the same level of stature as the count, and while Vlad wasn't known for drinking blood, Bathory was. She also had a resurgence of interest around the late 1800s, doubtless Stoker was aware of her. Unfortunately he never wrote down notes confirming this, its merely a suspicion historians like Raymond McNally had. Hell his book was literally called Dracula was a Woman. Oh and eating children isn't too far removed from what Bathory was actually accused of. Harming innocent girls was kinda her thing. I won't describe the details, I already wrote a video going into how ghastly it was. Heres the video. th-cam.com/video/tlvPSy2cW60/w-d-xo.html Its all food for thought...excuse the pun. PS, kickstarter for Neckbeard Dracula when?
Good to know
How the hell do you get here early? Some sort of Patreon perk?
is this a confirmed behaviour by Bathory or is it just explosive propaganda?
He commented the same time I did
@@wierdalien1 Its a long story but while its a contentious question I lean towards truth and not fiction. I worked with a historian named Kimberly Craft while writing my project and that lady went so far as to translate old letters Bathory wrote. She said there are myths added years after the fact and she probably didn't kill 650 people like the legends always say. But too many people reported the same thing for years upon years prior to her arrest and actual corpses were shown at the trial.
The production values on that product placement. I stand in awe.
Well. I looked up "My Secret Life".
My God.
*"Something like twelve hundred Women"*
52:52 this shot is so amazing, I had to pause and stare. Your cinematography is why I stay.
The opening sequence should be re-done so the creature grabs the man by the arm and then delivers an inescapable lecture on the falicy of the Lost Cause myth
As an English major, this was the greatest gift you could give me on Halloween!
I’ve been waiting for this for so long!!! Dracula is honestly just such an interesting novel and it deserves its place in history, literature, film, and culture!
Okay, that sponsorship plug was so smooth and funny I ain't even mad.
This video quality is amazing.
That, and its wonderful to see you interacting with your viewers in the comment sections, whether it be to clear something up or to just respond to someone that said something more original.
Love your stuff and how you carry yourself, have a good day mate
that ending got me
That description of what makes Vampires a scary, instantly sent shivers up my spine, well done.
The cut scenes, the cinematography, dude, well done. One of your best videos yet. Keep. It. Up!
Obviously this video was fantastic overall, but I just have to say: That was THE single best sponsor spot I've ever seen on TH-cam. I legitimately enjoyed watching it!
Atun-shei, if you haven’t Already read it, I recommend The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. It’s an excellent take on the Dracula myth, that combines historical and Victorian terror. And keeps that air of mystery and suspense of the original book.
Also BTW: your grandma sounds terrifying.
I commented about this book too. I feel like it isn't well known, but is worth a read for anyone interested in the subject or even just fans of thrillers
I know! But I love the raw suspense of the book and that you can feel Dracula hovering over the whole time. I think most people just first look at its size and go “nope”. And to be fair, it is a slow burn for the first 35-50 pages. Then we find that nice librarian with half his head on the table.....
@@kagetasan high five
!!! I have that book too! I haven't gotten around to finishing it, though
@@johnsannicolas2015 it’s worth finishing. Dracula....is really something else.
The idea to me of vampires representing "slaves of desire" is always my favorite views of them. In almost any depiction of them as horror they fit this, the let their lust overcome any sense of goodness. Lust for power, wealth, sex, life becoming their rationalization for the lives they take and destroy.
A really, really satisfying and level-headed analysis. You actually gave me a few writing ideas of my own!
This was a real delight. I enjoyed the analysis, particularly how you tackled so many of the different views of Dracula over the centuries, as well as the movie bits. Lots of fun.
Man spends a concerning amount of time in the dark talking about bitey bois
This is a fantastic video! I really like vampires, even if I think the weird sexual (and often pedophilic) nature of vampire media to be kind of boring and obnoxious. I'm more partial to awful giant beasts and feral creature vampires than anything, but even if that is the case, this video is really good, although that's to be expected from this channel.
My god. That Babbel ad was the best single advertisement I've ever seen! Bravo!
Great video as always, the filmed scenes where great, and its was just overall great.
So happy I found your channel, question: if you could choose from a medal/cap badge/military buckle, or bayonet from any period/side for a humble blacksmith/fan to make for you, what would it be?
Aw, that's incredibly generous! But there's no need to make anything for me. I'll think about it, though.
@@AtunSheiFilms please do, I am usually broke so can't afford to donate, but I have piles of materials and since pandemic all the time in the world so I decided to make items for my favourite TH-camrs.
Thanks for all the entertainment and historical info 🤠👍
5:22 (HEARTWARMING, MUST SEE!) Man shares spaghetti-os with financially disadvantaged friend :)
Just watched this for Halloween. Thanks for making the holiday spooky. This was high production value stuff! Immensely enjoyed.
Your videos just keep getting better and better. Keep up the great work!!!
Holy ghost! What a treat! Thank you for this goodness we are about to receive.
Thank you for this video - I loved your treatment of the subject (despite nearly turning it off early on with the extended creepy green woman scene). I have not only read the original book, but portrayed Renfield in a stage adaptation of the original novel and had a wonderful time creeping out audiences night after night.
How does this only have 61k views? I've seriously listened to this at least 20 times now. There's something about the sound of your voice and your cadence that helps me fall asleep.
The more of your videos I watch, the more I respect you keen acting skill, as well as your knowledge of history. good job, as always. really like your channel.
So, I AM going to comment that, though one would certainly expect it from the text, Stoker was not a Catholic. By all accounts he was a devout man, but he was born and raised in the Church of Ireland making him a Protestant of the broadly Anglican variety.
I first read Dracula over my highschool senior trip. I absolutely consumed it and barely hit the beach the whole time. No regrets.
Jesus Christ man, this is seriously your best stuff yet. You've just got yourself a patreon supporter, fantastic stuff.
That mummy Babble ad was legendary.