I suppose my query could be considered "major plot hole", but just why does Armand Tessla attack Niki as a little girl and drink some of her blood? Does he, with all his supernatural powers, foresee her growing into the lovely Nina Foch whom he can claim as his bride? He's binding her to him when she's a child? Doesn't this make him, uh, a member of the Woody Allen club?
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A good point. There is a similar attack on children theme in the novel Frankenstein, in which the monster kill's Frankenstein's nephew, stating that he will "glut the maw of Death" with the blood of Frankenstein's loved ones.
"If you don't know the answer -change the question."
Also, don't forget that in the original novel of Dracula (as well in most vampire lore), vampires attack and feed on children as easy prey.
"If you don't know the answer -change the question."
When young Nikki is attacked, she screams. Was her brother under Tesla's influence to stay asleep, or is he used to his sister's nightmares??
shareAll the above comments are valid, but there is also a narrative need for Tessla to attack a very young Nikki. If he attacked a young woman, and then returned 25 years later to reclaim the same victim, she would be 40 something. Nothing wrong with 40 somethings--I can still remember when I was one of them. But conventions of the day required a more youthful heroine. So in the prologue, Nikki had to be a child.
Even so, Nikki should be too old for a typical 1940s horror heroine. When Tessla first attacks her, in 1918, she is ~8 year old. Therefore, in 1943 when he returns, Nikki is in her early 30s--and thus not the late teens/early 20s ingenue of the movie (Nina Foch, who played Nikki, was 18 during filming).
So, if anyone does the math, the grown Nikki that we see was not even born when Tessla made that first attack. But nobody noticed.
You can make an interesting study of chronological inconsistencies in the movies, particularly horror movies. My favorite is in a review of the 1998 sequel, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." The reviewer--I forget whom--wrote: "Shouldn't this movie be called 'I Still Know What You Did The Summer Before Last'?"
In DRACULA, Lucy (as "the woman in white") lures little children away with candy and then sucks their blood.
In most Vampire movies they attack men, women, the young or old, it's just about the blood. Only in the Hammer Dracula films did it become more sexual with Christopher Lee attacking young women.
shareYoung hoes have energy and teen or early twenties have more blood due to all the periods they have
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