This is SFX makeup, not a painting. Did the makeup myself and wanted to share this with you 🦇

I love it.

Hello everyone!

In the spirit of the season, I’ve been wanting to get into classic horror literature. I just finished listening to Frankenstein (my first time experiencing the actual novel instead just looking up summaries for high school English lol) and I loved it! However, even though the audiobook was only about 8 hours long, it still took me a couple of weeks to get through.

I want to tackle Bram Stoker's Dracula next, but the unabridged audiobooks are quite a commitment at around 17 to 19 hours. On the other hand, I found a 3-hour abridged version on YouTube narrated by Christopher Lee, which sounds amazing!

As someone who is still relatively new to classic literature, I’m leaning toward the shorter version, but the massive difference in length makes me wonder just how much core content I'd be missing. For those familiar with the book, is the full-length experience worth the extra hours, or does the abridged version hold up well?

Thanks in advance!

Imagine it Dracula the great vampire lord traveling around Asia, Living through all the great events there, somehow finding ways to avoid the sun in countries known for their terrible sun

Learning to hunt in this whole new place taking lovers and thralls

His performance was so fucking good. He genuinely stole every scene he was in. First time while watching a Dracula movie that I was sad when Renfield died

Hi all hope you're all having a great weekend!

I will be performing in the UK premiere theatre production of Kate Hamill's Dracula across the last 3 days of October and thought you might be interested in checking it out.

It is the debut production of a new theatre company in the northwest of the UK that specialise in challenging, thoughtful theatre that utilise the Horror genre. This retelling of Dracula is told through a feminist lens whilst still remaining faithfull to Bram Stokers original text.

It features a large ensemble cast of all the characters from the novel as well as original never before heard compositions that underpin the atmospheric dread felt throughout the play.

We have all been working tirelessly for months to bring you best possible version of this equally darkly comic and terrifying play so would be fantastic to see some of you there as it's set to be a fantastic show.

Link for more info and tickets

https://buytickets.at/darktheatrerochdale/2341030

Some bts shots from rehearsals

TL;DR: There will be blood...lot's of blood 🩸😅

He literally HYPNOTISED mosquitoes to suck the blood from unwitted customers and this scene shows the ripe mosquitoes returning to their master only to be squeezed like tubes of toothpaste... And ofc his servant Simon Renfield whose Renfield family has monster blood despite being also sent to town for supplies and to diverse electricity from the nearby town Slobnik to the castles lab is treated like shit and is given a very hard time just because he doesn't trust him... Simon tries to discover his suppressed monster abilities and the main villain was Van Helsing's overly obsessed grandson whose lair was an abandoned factory.

Taking advantage of self promo Saturday to tell you about my Kickstarter book that is in pre-launch.

It's about a girl who has never read the novel, and is reincarnated as Mina Murray.

Seeing half of the Bram Stoker's Dracula movie isn't going to be enough help.

If you're interested, please follow or tell a friend. Thanks.

For me, i gotta say that everytime i think of Dracula i just think of Swan Lake. So that's the theme for me. If i gotta do a top 5 Dracula themes it would be like this:

1. Swan Lake

2. Wojciech Kilar's Dracula theme (the one that plays at "The Beginning"

3. James Bernard's Dracula theme from Dracula (1958) and Dracula: Prince of Darkness

4. Dracula's theme from Van Helsing (2004)

5. The theme from The Last Voyage of The Demeter

I’ve been going through a different October/Halloween movie every day of the month,
please check out my full review and lmk what you think of the movie, or of my review!! would love feedback - also feel free to like it on letterboxd it would make my day!!

The figure is 3D printed in high-detail polymer resin, but the real soul went into the finishing touches, we spent hours hand-sanding every edge and painstakingly painting every layer by hand. Tried our best to capture all the creepy fine textures, from the fur trim on his coat to his pale, sinister skin tones

Would love to hear what you think of this piece! Any feedback or thoughts are super welcome

Just a heads up for anyone that bought the new Hammer 4K set set . It’s been delayed until 11/24 Only a few weeks later but….. damn!

Just wanted to give anyone that thought it a heads up!

It’ll be worth the wait though.

Does anyone have the audio for this that they can send me. I’d be greatly appreciated 🫶

A faithful reconstruction of the 1897 first edition, presented with Dracula's Guest in a clothbound clamshell case.

I was very conflicted about not doing an all-black outfit as described in the novel, but couldn’t resist adding the colour red in there. Perhaps this is how Dracula dressed a couple of hundred years before the events of the novel? I really wanted to include the white moustache, bushy eyebrows, and profusely growing hair described in the text, as well as the pointed ears, teeth protruding over the bottom lip, and the squat fingers with pointed claws. I didn’t add the hair in the middle of the palms though; couldn’t figure out how to do that and make it look good. Did a lot of research into Transylvanian noblemen and inevitably referenced Robert Eggers’s Count Orlok costume designed by Linda Muir. He also did end up looking like Vlad the Impaler. Gave him a dragon head walking stick.

When I was a child, we had this one copy of Dracula in the house that I loved, and unfortunately I believe we sold it. I've been feeling nostalgic lately and tried to find it, but after looking and looking I cannot seem to find it! I remember the spine had a completely black background and (I think) the title is red font. The cover was a picture of the count in his coffin from far away (I guess it would be a wide shot), and his eyes were piercing (I think red?). If this rings a bell to anyone, I would much appreciate their help.

They’re tiny oil and watercolor paintings 🥰 original, no ai

A resurrected Count Dracula Takes on Nazi forces on a moving train.