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Forget redheads and brunettes...the Count HAS to have the blondes

posted 12 years ago by Pipeman_Toronto
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Always the same pattern. Dracula will bite a brunette or redhead first, usually only to get to the blonde.

He bites brunette Lucy to get to blonde Mina in Horror of Dracula.

He bites (buxom, sexy, feral) redhead Helen to get to (insipid) blonde Diana in Dracula Prince of Darkness.

He bites (slutty, juicy) redhead Zena to get to (Barbie lookalike) Maria in Dracula Has Risen from the grave.

Whatup wid dat?

[–] BuddyLove63 12 years ago

Well I think I can argue that in all of those films Dracula leaves the best to last. Certainly in the case of Risen although the other two are up for debate.

No debate with Veronica as Maria though.

[–] vestdennis 12 years ago

The red head bar maid is okay for starters but for the main course you gotta have Maria! What a hot momma!

[–] ElectricWarlock 11 years ago

I personally thought Zena looked a lot better than Maria and was also very funny, but that's just my opinion.

Come, fly the teeth of the wind. Share my wings.

[–] LarsHell 10 years ago

add "Taste the Blood of Dracula".
He bites curly red Lucy (Isla Blair) and spares blonde Alice (Linda Hayden).

[–] Pharaoh-in-de-Nile 9 years ago

Always the same pattern. Dracula will bite a brunette or redhead first, usually only to get to the blonde.

He bites brunette Lucy to get to blonde Mina in Horror of Dracula.

He bites (buxom, sexy, feral) redhead Helen to get to (insipid) blonde Diana in Dracula Prince of Darkness.

He bites (slutty, juicy) redhead Zena to get to (Barbie lookalike) Maria in Dracula Has Risen from the grave.

Whatup wid dat?

- Pipeman_Toronto

To be fair he actually goes for Lucy (I'd say she is a redhead, on copies with better colour anyway; auburn) after seeing her photo that Harker had and only goes for Mina because after making Lucy a vampire she is staked.

Also in 'Dracula, Prince of Darkness' he just wants Diana as well as Helen who he has already made a Vampire. Also Helen was only "feral" after she was bitten, before that she was proper, shrewish and a prude.

add "Taste the Blood of Dracula".
He bites curly red Lucy (Isla Blair) and spares blonde Alice (Linda Hayden).

- LarsHell

Only because the sun was rising, in his defense. He was going to kill her the scene just after offing Isla Blair's character but was interupted.

I have noticed that the main woman is always a blonde though and the secondary one a redhead (except for 'Scars of Dracula' where we don't have the customary red-haired victim).

[–] jann-6 9 years ago

In this movie (Risen from the Grave) he wants Maria without having ever seen her - he only wants her to get revenge on the Monsignor, who is her uncle.

If there is anything to what the OP is saying about blondes always being the main prize, it isn't Dracula: It's the directors/writers/producers.

[–] ChristianeK 9 years ago

The Count has brunette bride in Horror, and she calls brunette Lucy as "Charming" while choosing her before Mina; like Pharaoh-in-de-Nile said, the Count goes after Mina only when Lucy is staked. He also throws blonde Alice contemptuously away in Taste the blood of Dracula, when she fawns over him, with "I have no further use for you!"
Baron Meinster, on the other hand, seemed to collect brunettes and redheads. Carmilla preferred redhead Emma in The Vampire lovers; she even cared her a bit.

[–] radarlove73 (109) 2 years ago

Pipeman_Toronto, regardless of his choice, imagine having that power over women, he can have any woman that he sets his eyes on.

[–] SteveRes (474) 5 months ago

He wants revenge in this film which is why he targets the blonde... that said isn't Dracula meant to target virgins? H elikes to corrupt the innocent. No way Zena was a virgin...