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Dwight Frye as Renfield DRACULA 1931 | dir. Tod Browning
made these for a stupid tiktok but I'm sharing them here too
A moment ago, I stumbled upon a most amazing phenomenon. Something so incredible, I mistrust my own judgment. Look.
DRACULA 1931 — dir. Tod Browning
Bela Lugosi smoking on the set of Dracula 1931
Alright that's it I'm well not ashamed but certainly feeling a little strange to admit that after a lifetime of being frightened and a little disgusted by the vampire kink have I finally begun to see the appeal of it and YALL KNOW WHICH PAIR OF FUCKING DEGENERATES IT WAS?
No it wasn't any of the sexy ones like Bradd Pitt playing at fag boytoy with Tom Cruise. It wasnt the AMC reboot that none of you shut up about and it certainly wasn't the book which made my phobia a lot worse by the way because vampires = sexual predation metaphor, ive never liked it. Never liked the idea of someone seducing food then claiming to love it, there's something dehumanising and condescending and awful about it and the catholic guilt undertones of the books and the way Claudia and other girls are described in the books does not help.
No, it wasn't any of the sexy ones. The sexy ones just make it worse.
IT WAS THE NIC CAGE MOVIE WITH BEAST FROM X MEN!!!!
Suddenly I'm realising that like a/b/o or a lot of other kink stuff maybe I've always disliked these things because they seemed cringe or whatever but a lot of dynamics that I want are embedded within these tropes FUCK. Like corruption, consumption, and subservience and sadism and ownership.
I think I also like that because both Loustat and Dracfield are creature x creature ships, the fear is a little alleviated.
song in my head- Marilyn Manson, Fated, Faithful, Fatal.
Renfield from Dracula can be faster than a car and I have evidence.
Carfax Abbey is in London. (marked red)
Seward Sanitorium is in Whitby. (marked purple)
It is a plot point (at least in the 1931 film) that Renfield escaped the sanitorium and fled to London, where he knew Dracula would be. These locations are estimated to be 231 km apart. It would take about 5-6 days to travel this distance, though he seems to end his journey within mere hours. It is presumed he didn’t use a carriage. The trip, car or train interchangeably, is roughly 5 hours. Let’s assume his journey to return to Dracula was 3 hours. 231 / 3 = 77 km/h.
Renfield’s running speed can reach up to 77km/h or higher (we don’t know what he’s capable of)