🧛🏻 Monsterfucker Movie Rec: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
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What’s the context, baby?👇
Okay I know that this meme is kinda obscure and niche BUT the above photos are of Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray), Bram Stoker (Dracula), and Florence Balcombe. The three of them had a complicated and strange relationship with Florence first being Oscar Wilde’s beau until Stoker (a friend of Wildes) snatched her away from Wilde and married her all without Wilde or their friends knowing.
Wilde and Stoker had a homoerotic rivalry for much of their relationship in which they participated in triangulated homosocial relationships, vying for the attention of not one but TWO different people: Florence Balcombe and Sir Henry Irving (an idol of Wilde’s).
It is theorized that Stoker and Wilde’s relationship, as well as Wilde’s public trial after he was accused of sodomy, profoundly affected Stoker and his writing of Dracula. In fact, he wrote Dracula 1 month after Wilde was convicted.
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✤ Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
There's a sexual element. She is gradually attracted towards Nosferatu. She feels a fascination — as we all would think. First, she hopes to save the people of the town by sacrificing herself. But then, there is a moment of transition. There is a scene when he is sucking her blood — sucking and sucking like an animal—and suddenly, her face takes on a new expression, a sexual one, and she will not let him go away anymore. There is a desire that has been born. A moment like this has never been seen in a vampire picture.
— Isabelle Adjani
OMG!!!! It’s even canon that the nosferatu freak has monster rizz!!! Also, lol, ofc this adaptation was filmed during the 70s, one of the horniest vampire eras in cinema
I’m writing about the queer subtext of Dracula and its SEVEN PAGES LONG just talking about the complicated history of a probably closeted Bram Stoker and how the culture at large helped to shape his monsters 😮💨 I’m not even at the part during the 1930s in which Hollywood censorship aided in queer-coding monsters either
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula japanese poster
This goes so fucking hard
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One of my favorite things about dracula daily is that we, tumblrina that we are, known lovers of sexy vampires just looked at Count Dracula, the most famous and sexualized vampire of our time,and we were all collectively: "Nah, he is awful."
And to be fair, that's how you are supposed to feel after reading the books, but I just think it's funny that Count Dracula is the only vampire we all just refuse to find sexy.
It’s funny because our love for Dracula, at least erotically, derives imo from the movies predominately! (Although the screenwriter for Coppola’s Dracula says that the book is “wet and oral” so you know, the book does have its influences, hairy palms or no…)
Lugosi’s 1931 Dracula was marketed as “the strangest passion the world has ever known!” And women drove to the movie in FLOCKS and even wrote love letters to Legosi.
From there the erotic and romantic subtext was made more and more prominent, next best in Hammer’s Dracula featuring Christopher Lee (1958), where Lee was chosen specifically for being a hottie that would draw in women dreamin and fiendin for some tall mysterious man to bite their necks.
Director Terence Fisher even instructed actress Melissa Stribling during scenes in which Dracula bit Mina to “imagine [she was having] one whale of a sexual night, the one of [her] whole sexual experience” and that she needed to “Give [him] that in [her] face!”
After the Hays Code ended in 1968, 70s horror film boomed with vampires, especially sexy ones, so you got lots of sexualized Dracula movies as well as straight up pornos featuring Dracula lmao
But most memorable yet is Coppola’s romantic, tragic and overwhelmingly horny Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)! Coppola himself describes the movie as “an erotic dream”, which like, yeah lmao Jonathan almost gets snagged into a man-eating, orgy amongst the vampire wives; the werewolf/Lucy scene; and the Mina/Dracula embrace really come to mind.
This doesn’t even touch the queer erotic readings of the Dracula novel, and thus the queer subtext present in the movies as well between Jonathan and Dracula! 🧛♂️ 🦇🩸
You can read more on my blog 👉: https://monstrousdesirestudy.com/hypnotism-through-the-decades-dracula/