Monday, October 26, 2009

Dracula the Un-Dead

It's that time of year again--oh, wait, I read horror all year long! Anyway, a sequel to Bram Stoker's brilliant vampire masterpiece, "Dracula", written by his great-grand nephew, Dacre Stoker, and Ian Holt, a Dracula enthusiast. All in all it was a worthy sequel and stayed true to the original characters. They wove in some real life horror by having Dracula originally going after the real Jack the Ripper, another vampire named Elizabeth Bathory. The only thing I sort of had a problem with was the romanticizing of Dracula in keeping trend with the current vampire books that are popular, like "Twilight". Stoker and Holt try to take the teeth out of the bad guy, but other than that, it was good.

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