Post by nicolecushing on Nov 10, 2012 23:50:54 GMT -5
I'm sitting here watchin' the original, '31 Dracula on Svengoolie tonight and realizing how Lugosi is cast as a sort of exotic/dangerous foreigner from the east who doesn't really, really get dangerous until he dares to tread on British soil.
I'm wondering if anyone else has ever picked up on this. The threat of an incursion by outside forces is an old idea in horror. Is it possible that the '31 Dracula presents the "outside force" as a foreigner in the same way that Tod Browning's Freaks presents the outside force as a group of people who are physically anomalous?
Would the movie have worked differently if the Count was from Northampton instead of Transylvania? Did Dracula capitalize on a fear of immigrants?
I'm wondering if anyone else has ever picked up on this. The threat of an incursion by outside forces is an old idea in horror. Is it possible that the '31 Dracula presents the "outside force" as a foreigner in the same way that Tod Browning's Freaks presents the outside force as a group of people who are physically anomalous?
Would the movie have worked differently if the Count was from Northampton instead of Transylvania? Did Dracula capitalize on a fear of immigrants?