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BBC - BBC Radio Ulster Programmes - Dracula by Bram Stoker, Episode 1

@kiwimouse: @cleolinda *cough* Michael Fassbender reads Dracula. Thought you might be interested.

@cleolinda: We need to have more actors reading gothic novels. Someone get on this.

@particle_person: actorsreadinggothicnovels is totally a tumblr idea.

@cleolinda: +1 RT @herdivineshadow: If Richard Armitage read Frankenstein, I would actually sit through that monstrosity again

@particle_person: OMG, can you imagine Michael Emerson?

@cleolinda: Hm. Which book?

@particle_person: The Woman in White. I bet he’d be truly creepy with a romantic obsession.

@count_01: When my publishing empire grows only a few billions more, I will acquire the rights to every novel written between 1780 and 1840.

@cleolinda: But… there are no ri… I can sell them to you. I can totally, totally sell them to you.

Most vampires don’t believe in the cross, but that hardly matters. It’s the idea of the thing that gives them fits. The cross confronts vampires with their opposite — with the rejection of power and its single-minded pursuit. It suggests that no one is to be treated as prey — not even an enemy. The idea of the cross, in other words, suggests that vampires have it wrong, that they have it backwards, in fact, and that those others they regard as prey are actually, somehow, winning.

This notion is incomprehensible for vampires. The one thing they’re certain of, the thing that drives them and tells them who they are and how the world works and that they’ve got it all figured out is that the key to immortality is in choosing to be the predator rather than the prey. The idea that this might be wrong is so befuddling, so contradictory to everything they have chosen to be that it forces them to recoil. They can’t get past it.

(via slacktivist: Vampires & crosses)

maudelynn:

Vampyr (1932), directed by Carl Theodore Dryer

ifwelivethatlong:

oldhollywood:

Max Schreck relaxing between takes & creeping everyone out on the set of Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922, F.W. Murnau) (via)

During the filming of Nosferatu, Schreck reportedly stayed in character at all times, even when the cameras weren’t rolling, and the cast and crew never saw him out of full makeup and costume. While this immersive approach to acting is commonplace now, it was unusual back then and his appearance & behavior led to wild rumors that Schreck actually was a vampire. If this photo is indicative of Schreck’s demeanor around the set of Nosferatu, the crew’s wariness seems understandable. 

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fuckyeahhollywoodcostume:

Van Helsing - Kate Beckinsale - Anna Valerious

by Gabriella Pescucci & Carlo Poggioli

fuckyeahhollywoodcostume:

Van Helsing - Kate Beckinsale - Anna Valerious

by Gabriella Pescucci & Carlo Poggioli 

Very high on my list of Movie Characters I Would Like to Be, Or At Least Look Like.

oldhollywood:

Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931, dir. Tod Browning)

“When I am given a new role in a horror film, I have a character to create just as much as if I were playing a straight part. Whether one thinks of films like Dracula as ‘hokum’ or not does not alter the fact; the horror actor must believe in his part. The player who portrays a film monster with his tongue in his cheek is doomed to fail.

In playing Dracula, I have to work myself up into believing that he is real, to ascribe to myself the motives and emotions that such a character would feel. For a time I become Dracula - not merely an actor playing at being a vampire. A good actor will ‘make’ a horror part. He will build up the character until it convinces him and he is carried away by it.

There is another reason why I do not mind being “typed” in eerie thrillers - with few exceptions, there are, among actors, only two types who matter at the box office. They are heroes and villains. The men who play these parts are the only ones whose names you will see in electric lights outside the theater. Obviously you will not find me competing with Clark Gable or Robert Montgomery! Therefore, I have gone to the other extreme in my search for success and public acclaim.”

-Bela Lugosi, Film Weekly, July 1935

(via fuckyeahparanormal)

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gothiccharmschool:

The one and only Bela Lugosi as Dracula.

vampirical:

prettybooks:

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I quite like that minimalist Dracula cover.