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The hell was Anna's problem

posted 6 months ago by TylerAArse (2680)
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-She was from Romania and knew all the lore surrounding Drac, yet she divulged nothing that would help them in their hunt. Cough up the info, and these dudes may have defeated Drac.

-No on thought to search in cargo hold for Dracula? Again, Anna knew about that. All she had to tel them was search during the day.

-You could do blood transfusions without worrying about blood types?

Not a bad movie. I have no idea how close this is to the original story. I suspect not at all. One day I gotta read that book.

[–] pundit2006 (149) 6 months ago

Exactly what I was thinking. She knew about this entity and her village did because they had been dealing with Dracula for years. So in all that time she didn't know that he was a vampire? Mind-boggling.

Also about blood transfusions. They probably didn't know anything about different blood types back then.
This was back in the 19th century.

[–] DoctorThirteen (10531) 6 months ago

You're right, according to this;

'After discovery of the first human blood groups (ABO) by Karl Landsteiner in 1901 (5), gradually from 1927, other blood groups were also discovered and reported'

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3595629/#:~:text=After%20discovery%20of%20the%20first,is%20given%20in%20Table%202.

[–] thingmakersback (1219) 6 months ago

Blood transfusions were done before they knew about blood types. They were rare because the need had to be desperate to risk the likely ill effects. I believe they used saline and maybe other fluids to simply add blood volume, and I don't know how well that worked, what with the germ theory being still kinda new and cleanliness of fluids being an issue.

I never heard of this business of pushing transfusions to help with some perceived "infection" as the doctor said in the film.

[–] mel2000 (244) 4 months ago

So in all that time she didn't know that he was a vampire?

She knew he was a vampire because she showed the doctor her puncture marks. The better question is why didn't she tell anyone about the sunlight vulnerability.