Dracula (1931 film): Difference between revisions

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* [[All in the Eyes]]: The classic example.

* [[Answer Cut]]: Used after Mina is bitten by Dracula for the first time.

'''Maid:''' ''[Under Dracula's influence and announcing the arrival of their guest]'' Count Dracula. }}

* [[Anticlimax]]: In the end, a stake is simply put through Dracula's heart when he sleeps in his coffin. Then Jonathan and Mina walk up the stairs to greet the morning sun.

* [[Charm Person]]: Dracula's hypnotic powers are between this and [[Hypnotic Eyes]].

* [[Chewing the Scenery]]:

* [[Cobweb Jungle]]: Renfield has to go through one in the Castle Dracula.

* [[Cobweb of Disuse]]: Played with; much of the Count's castle is swathed in cobwebs that make it appear totally deserted. At least, they ''seem'' to imply nobody's been using it ... until a sneaky camera cut makes it appear that the vampire has walked straight through a large orb web without disturbing it.

* [[Creepy Basement]]: Castle Dracula and Carfax Abbey both have this.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Said in the film.

* [[Forced Perspective]]: The shot of a bug crawling out of a miniature coffin.

* [[Glamour Failure]]: Van Helsing notifies Dracula's vampirism with a help of a mirror.

* [[Missing Episode]]: In its original release, the movie had an epilogue in which Edward Van Sloan [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|addressed the audience]]. It starts out sounding like a reassuring [[This Is a Work of Fiction]] message, until at the last moment he subverts it with "There really ''are'' such things as vampires!" The epilogue was cut from the 1936 re-release due to fears of offending religious groups by endorsing the occult, and is now lost.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: What Martin believes himself to be, said in a humorous exchange.

''Martin slowly backs away'' }}

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Dracula is a largely emotionless bloodthirsty [[Humanoid Abomination|abomination]] that passes itself off as human, and there are plenty of cracks in that [[The Masquerade|masquearade]] that make him seem more than merely eccentric to ordinary people; for example, Castle Dracula looks as though its been abandoned for centuries, with Renfield surprised that anyone actually ''lives'' there; Carfax Abbey is in a similar state of disrepair, and he bluntly informs his bewildered neighbours that he has no intention of fixing it up. He also doesn't seem to like or be able to keep up his facade of normalcy for long periods of time, and he will leave, enslave or kill you within minutes of any meeting. In addition, his idiosyncratic speech patterns make it seem like he hasn't used his mouth for speaking in a long, long time. He's less like a cursed man than some kind of malevolent, primitive, pre-programmed robot that doesn't fully understand how it should interact with human beings. Quite creepy indeed.

* [[The Power of Blood]]: As Dracula puts it:

* [[The Renfield]]: But of course.

* [[Say My Name]]: "Mina! Mina! Mina! Mina!"