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Dracula (1973)
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A Made-for-TV Movie adaptation of Dracula, scripted by Richard Matheson and directed by Dan Curtis of Dark Shadows fame. (As such it's sometimes known as Dan Curtis' Dracula, to differentiate it from others; originally it was titled Bram Stoker's Dracula, but that's been dropped because of the later film of the same name.) It was produced in 1973 but first aired in early 1974, as its original broadcast on CBS was postponed for months due to Richard Nixon making an unscheduled presidential address concerning the resignation of Spiro Agnew as vice president.While the core of the novel – Dracula (Jack Palance) heading to London for a new feeding ground – is intact, there are several significant changes to the main story regarding character placements. | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Subverted. Van Helsing demands Mina leave without telling her why. When she demands an explanation, he tries to think of the reason he won’t tell her and can’t come up with one, and he just tells her the truth. | |
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Devoured by the Horde | |
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Devoured by the Horde: Harker by Dracula's brides. They nearly succeeded the first time but Dracula stepped in to prevent them from doing so. The second time however, he had no more use for Harker. So when the gypsies catch him in Dracula's crypt and knock him out, Harker awakens right as night falls and is quickly cornered by the women who swarm him. | |
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Reincarnation Romance | |
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Reincarnation Romance: Slightly, Dracula targets Lucy since she looks like his lost love, Maria, from the past. | |
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Destination Defenestration | |
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Destination Defenestration: During Dracula’s attack in the hotel, one guy who tries to attack him gets thrown out a window. | |
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Dies Wide Open | |
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Dies Wide Open: When Dracula finishes feeding on Lucy, Arthur and a butler find her corpse slumped near a tree, eyes completely wide open with tears streaming down her face. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: No Renfield, Quincy, or Seward in this version. | |
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Killed Offscreen | |
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Killed Offscreen: Burgess shoots at Dracula repeatedly, but the Immune to Bullets Dracula keeps coming at him. The film then cuts back to Mina, who hears the gunshots stop. When Arthur and Van Helsing arrive, the first thing they find is Burgess' dead body. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: Johnathan Harker in this version. He's initially saved from the brides by Dracula as in the original story. But when he escapes from his room and snoops around the crypt to find Dracula's coffin, he's found and knocked out by the gypsies. They leave him there as they finish packing Dracula and his coffins up for his trip to London, with Harker awakening long after night has fallen. Just in time for Dracula's brides to be awake and active who quickly swarm and feed on him once they find him. When Van Helsing and Arthur later track down Dracula to his castle, they find a ravenous vampire Harker within that same area who attacks them. Arthur manages to kill him for good by knocking him into a nearby spike pit. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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Gory Discretion Shot: Dracula having a wolf tear apart a night watchman. | |
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Savage Wolves | |
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Savage Wolves: Dracula frees a wolf from the local zoo, and uses it to attack Arthur while he guards Lucy at night. | |
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Vampire Refugee | |
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Vampire Refugee: Mina as per usual of the main story. Though in this one she personally requests Van Helsing and Arthur to Mercy Kill her should they fail find him in time. Citing she feels the vampirisim affecting her. Indeed a few scenes later, her hair starts getting messier and her eyes more sunken. When a nun that Arthur left with her goes to check on her, she states she can feel the change even more at that point and is scared. To prove her point, she grabs the nun's cross and it burns her hand. Causing Mina to cry out in anguish. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Mrs. Westenra dies of a heart attack in the book when Dracula attacks, here she's just faints when Dracula comes after Lucy for the final time. | |
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Holy Burns Evil | |
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Holy Burns Evil: Van Helsing flashes a cross at the newly vampiric Lucy when she tries to attack him, forcing her to flee from the estate. As Mina slowly turns, she grabs the cross of a nun looking after her which instantly burns her hand. | |
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Revenge | |
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Revenge: After Lucy is staked, Dracula goes after Mina in revenge for losing his love a second time and wanting to make the hunters pay. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: Averted. In contrast to the original novel and most adaptations, Dracula here makes little effort to charm Harker by playing the gracious host even initially. | |
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Breaking and Bloodsucking | |
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Breaking and Bloodsucking: Rather then confront her in the cemetery, Lucy returns back to her manor after she rises as a vampire and, after tricking Arthur to let her in, nearly bites him. Only stopped by the timely arrival of Van Helsing and his cross. | |
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Blood from the Mouth | |
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Blood from the Mouth: The uncensored version had the vampires mouths filling with blood after they're staked. | |
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Dies Differently in Adaptation | |
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Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the book, Quincey Morris kills Dracula by plunging a knife into his heart. In the film, Van Helsing weakens him with sunlight before driving a spear through his heart. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Harker when he finds himself in the crypt where the brides are and they quickly close in on him. | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice | |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Harker is killed by being knocked into a spike pit. Dracula meets his end which Van Helsing impales him with a spear against a table, then letting the sun do the rest of the work. | |
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Hollywood Darkness | |
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Hollywood Darkness: It's very obvious in some scenes they filmed them during the day and just put a filter to make it look like night. | |
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Battle Butler | |
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Battle Butler: Burgess, who goes charging after Dracula twice to protect the Westenra home. It doesn’t turn out so well for him the second time. | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
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Decoy Protagonist: Harker is initially seen as the main character the story follows, but halfway through the Transylvania side of the story, he's fed on by the brides and ultimately killed, to which the MC role shifts over to Arthur and Van Helsing. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: The film ends immediately after Dracula is killed, with no indication on what will happen to Mina, who was last seen turning into a vampire. | |
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