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Dracula is a horror drama television serial developed by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, loosely based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.The series, consisting of three episodes, premiered on 1 January 2020 and was broadcast over three consecutive days on BBC One before releasing on Netflix.
While Mina and Van Helsing travel straight to Dracula's castle, the others attempt to ambush the boat on which Dracula is a passenger. Van Helsing's influence over Mina diminishes each day, and her behavior changes as she sleeps more during the day, loses her appetite for food, and ceases to write in her journal.
Dracula flirts with Lucy and later that night, enters her bedroom, and drinks her blood. Mina discovers Lucy still in bed late in the morning, looking strangely pale. Seward, puzzled by the odd puncture marks on her throat, calls in Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Van Helsing informs the skeptical Dr. Seward that Lucy has been attacked by a vampire.
The playwrights take their greatest and most effective liberty with the character of Van Helsing, a physician who is called in to solve Lucy’s “problem.” Stoker wrote the character as a man.
Count Dracula is using the alias of "Alexander Lucard", and is a wealthy tycoon. (The name 'A. Lucard' is 'Dracula' spelled backwards). He is constantly on guard against attacks from Gustav Van Helsing, as well as Gustav's young nephews — Maximilian and Christopher Townsend. [2] They were also aided by a schoolgirl, Sophie Metternich.
Van Helsing is set in a post-apocalyptic near future. Vanessa Van Helsing, a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, awakens from a coma after her supposed death to find herself in a post-apocalyptic world, three years after an eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera had blanketed the world in ash, blocking out sunlight and allowing vampires to overrun humanity.
At night, Van Helsing and Mina are approached by Dracula's brides. Mina succumbs to their chanting and attempts to seduce Van Helsing. Before Mina can feed on his blood, Van Helsing places a communion wafer on her forehead, leaving a mark that slows her transformation. He surrounds them with a ring of fire to protect them from the brides, then ...
Van Helsing: 2004 United States: Stephen Sommers: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh: A horror/action-adventure film only loosely connected to the novel Dracula. Van Helsing's appearance is heavily based on the look of Vampire Hunter D, a vampire hunter who is the implied son of Dracula. Blade: Trinity: 2004 United States: David S ...