Review of the film: The Horror of Dracula Hammer Studios, 1958 with Christopher Lee
Uploaded by CaseyP on Oct 04, 2016
The Hammer Dracula
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THE HAMMER DRACULA
TEXTBOOK & HANDOUT:
The book Vampire God: The Allure of the Undead in Western Culture seeks to examine the popular appeal of vampires from the early Slavic and Greek folklore to the contemporary popular culture. The third chapter of the book offers interesting and timely psychological perspectives into the lives of vampires. Additionally, it brings to the table wide-range introductory remarks to students and academicians looking for a concise review of both scholarly and canonical vampirism literature, offering an array of a comprehensive survey of principal themes and preoccupations of the literature over an elongated period that is both accessible and lively. Moreover, the author of the book exhausted every plausible idea for age-defining horror stories as it is categorically clear that there will be none like it in the years to come. I found the book thoroughly entertaining and paradoxical from the fact that Dracula was portrayed as confident, charismatic and poignant gentlemen during the day while the case was entirely different once the night fell.
ARTICLE:
From Hollywood Gothic to Hammer Horror: The Modern Evolution of Dracula" in Celluloid Vampires is an article written by the renowned mystery writer Stacey Abbott. She contests the conventional explanation and interpretation of the vampirism mythology and explains that cinematic mediums have reinvented the stereotypes and archetype of vampires completely. Rather than looking to present the folkloric and primitive tales that vampires have come to embody with the passing of time and eventual take-over by modernity, Stacey (2007) looks at offering an in-depth and critically analysis description of what constitutes vampires. The article brings out the never-heard-before description of the lingering creatures springing from its well-crafted use of words and extensive research.
MOVIE REVIEW:
Title of the film: The Horror of Dracula
The plot of the movie: The film goes down as one the important milestones in the horror oeuvre, and up to today it still stands as inventive and fresh as it was many years. Critics and moviegoers alike have touted it as one of the best stories ever written (Sangster et al., 2013).
The theme of the film: Hammer as a studio has numerous fine hours, and this movie is the much-needed evidence to prove it was aiming to put across the depiction of the society on the vampire Dracula.
The point of view of the filmmaker: The atmosphere of the Gothic setting in the film is on...