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How could Dracula have a daughter?

posted 20 years ago by GroovyDoom
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This was never really explained in the movie, but at one point Countess "Zaleska" reminisces with Sandor about remembering her mother singing to her in her cradle and the "fluttering of wings", while Sandor reminds her it was the wings of bats, etc. So...I guess she was a vampire baby? This brings up all sorts of silly scenarios like, do vampires reproduce sexually? If a baby is born a vampire at what point do they "grow up" and stop aging? And what about the three "wives" that Dracula has in the first film, was Gloria Holden supposedly lurking around the castle too?

I like the movie but this idea seems a little too far-fetched to me.

[–] Mithrandir-Olorin22 13 years ago

This thread is actually quite interesting in this context.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/board/nest/184366666?p=1

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[–] scribe1270 13 years ago

In the original Dracula Van Helsing talks about a family of Vampires. Dracula himself never says how old he is so it could be he was a later count than the original one according to Universals storyline. He would have risen to be the count after the original one was killed if that were the case and when he died he would have been the head vampire.Therefore he could have fathered his daughter before he died and then had influence over her after his death much like he did with the women he attacked in the 1931 movie.

[–] Niki_Catalina 13 years ago

How could Dracula have a daughter?

Uh, very carefully?

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[–] Tresix 12 years ago

Also had a son: Lon Chaney, Jr. in Son of Dracula. Wonder if they argued over the estate or anything like that.

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[–] fchilds 10 years ago

Wonder if they argued over the estate or anything like that.

Well if they did, their only recourse would have been to fight it out in night court.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

In the original Dracula MOVIE, not in Bram Stoker's novel, which, itself, is not the origin of the legend of Vlad Tepes. You can't use fiction as scholarly source material.

[–] Pharaoh-in-de-Nile 10 years ago

Traditionally in folklore vampires (hence dhampirs) were said to be able to reproduce and nowhere in Bram Stoker's novel or the first universal film is this contradicted so why not just believe that Dracula had a daughter (presumably with another vampire rather than a mortal human) one hundred years ago?

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

There is no folklore basis WHATSOEVER for half-humans, half-vampires. To the best of my knowledge, the so-called dhampirs are a creation of the Anime industry, introduced in Vampire Hunter D. Vampires cannot breed. Vampires have NO human feelings, so, even if they turn someone into one of their own (and keep in mind that the occult tradition does not agree that they can, and also keep in mind that Bram Stoker was NOT an occult Initiate by any stretch of the imagination), they would not care about them.

[–] lm362 10 years ago

When Countess Zaleska reminisces about remembering her mother singing to her in her cradle, Sandor is not reminding her that the "fluttering of wings" she heard were those of bats. He is trying to get her to think of evil things to discourage her. I believe she is remembering when she was a human child.
If you have ever watched the television series "Forever Knight" you will remember that the vampire Lacroix called Nick and Janette, who he turned into vampires, his "children" and he, their "father". It is the same here. Dracula made this woman a vampire. I believe that this movie, like the 1931 movie has vampires as being unable to father children like humans do. Forever Knight did the same with the vampires in that show.

[–] pawtrax67 9 years ago

Perhaps Dracula fed on a pregnant woman. Then when the victim gave birth, the daughter was corrupted by vampire blood.

Wait isn't that how Blade was born?

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

Neither Dracula, nor any other vampire can procreate; that's Hollywood romanticized bullshit. A vampire is DEAD, period. Dead things do not reproduce, duh! Vampires have endured in popular entertainment because the image of maidens being penetrated by fangs easily translates into a simplistic metaphor for coitus. There is nothing that could be farther from the occult truth. The sexy vampire is the product of an expedient writer's mind, a writer who knows nothing at all of occult lore. Occult lore teaches that a vampire is only a demon that inhabits the shell of a corpse. You really wanna get fucked by that?

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7994) 4 years ago

Yeah. The whole premise of this movie does fall apart if you think about it too much. It does seem like Vampires should not be able to reproduce. And with them basically being dead biologically it is gross to think about them having sex.

[–] millsey72 (10951) 3 years ago

Looks like you found a plot hole