[DoctorEldritch]

Hello Legion Gamers!

This week we had a few interesting days! It started with Goth Day that @DracoTarot was so eloquent about, and that day coincided with Sherlock Holmes Day And today (26th of May) the week wraps up with a day dedicated to another famous character from that era: Count Dracula himself. Interesting how Dracula and Goths are so close to each other.

Interestingly, despite being such a popular vampire, Dracula is not featured all that often in video games. Apart from the famous Castlevania series and less famous Dracula series, the famous vampire makes only a casual appearance, preferring instead to stay in the shadows and leave the spotlight to other vampires like Jonathan E. Reid, Mona De Lafitte, or Kain. And that is not counting nameless bloodsuckers that you can play as in different Vampire the Masquerade games or the recent disappointment Redfall as @Saka mentioned.

Indeed, Dracula seems to prefer the glamour of movie life. Over the years, he had many screen adaptations:

And that's just the tip of the iceberg not counting examples from other films and series like Claes Bang's Dracula (incidentally, from the makers of Cumberbatch Sherlock. Mini series of 3 episodes, I liked the first 2 but the last one with an ending sucked), trashy horrors, comedies like with Leslie Nielsen or more recent Nicolas Cage (the success of Renfield as a film, to me, is highly debatable, but I liked Cage's Dracula, that was about the only thing I did like in that film...) or animated versions like the one in Hotel Transilvania (ugh).

Seeing as there are but a few game Draculas but enough movie ones to fill a small convention, I thought it good to come back to our Halloween posts and ask again what the best Dracula is. For me, Sir Christopher Lee. What about you?

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch Without a doubt Sir Christopher Lee was the best in his role as Dracula. There are a few actors who can live up to his standards.

Renfield was a total mess. Any movie based on Vampires or Dracula not taken serious is a joke. I really do not like horror comedies at all.

[DoctorEldritch]

@DracoTarot So not a fan of What We Do In The Shadows then, I take it?

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch First few episodes were ok. Worth the watch if there's nothing else on the telly!

[DoctorEldritch]

@DracoTarot There's always something else with the number of shows that get released these days. Too bad almost as many shows get cancelled. And then there was that Disney+Hulu purge on the 25th, too...

So the challenge is to find a show that is either finished or is sure to reach its planned ending.

[j7schultz]

This will always be my favorite Dracula:


Gerard Butler from Dracula 2000.

[Saka]

I wanted to respond to this topic earlier, but alas my post didn't go through on the phone and the content has been lost.

Sir Christopher Lee was a great actor and person. I just have the problem that I associate him mostly with the portrayal of Saruman in the Lord of the Rings.

So in the Dracula from 1970 I see Saruman going through an edgy phase. 😅

As a random bit, Sir Christopher Lee was acquaintanced with J.R.R. Tolkien and the author saw him as a possible candidate for Gandalf. That was an interesting twist of fate, him ending up as Saruman.

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch It's sad when a great series is cancelled due to a lack of funding and viewership.

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@j7schultz I must agree with you. Gerard Butler did a good job in Dracula 2000. It would have been nice if they chose him to do a The Crow movie.

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch I totally forgot to mention my pc tower is an MSI VAMPIRIC and thought I'd share it under the Vampire thread. My mouse is called blade runner and is also from MSI. I immediately thought of Wesley Snipes in Blade.