Ole Drac would have been arrested these days for wife-beating lol. He's always slapping his women about😠. In a scene in this movie he harshly hits Zena for failing to bring him the Bishop's daughter, and later cruelly snubs her while she is currying for his favour.
Ole Dracula always seems to 'want to go it alone', so to speak, discarding his servants along the way. I guess he would feel out of of place at a party lol.
You are thinking about Dracula Has Risen From the Grave. I know b\c I own all of them and watch them religiously.
shareyes, sorry about that Dennis, it was Dracula has Risen From The Grave.
In this movie though, poor Barbara Shelley feels the brunt of Dracula's rage. Particularly notable is the scene where, after Francis Matthews repels him with the cross, Barbara looks to him for sympathy and is cruelly threw to the floor.
As I said before, Dracula is kind of a 'one-man band' so to speak. Killing off his servants after their usefulness is at an end.
It would be funny if a modern spoof were made of this film, and an earnest activist tried to lecture Dracula about male privilege. I don't think it would end well.
There's a light (Over at the Frankenstein place)--The Rocky Horror Picture Show
And the cross would repel vampires who'd howl about religious bigotry and oppression.
shareDracula throwing them beeyotches around is one of the most amusing cinematic moments in history. Especially when knowing how friendly Christopher Lee was in real life .
shareDracula is clearly old school and doesn't have a very high opinion of women. He disposes of his woman servants and vampires when he feels he no longer has any use for them as well as refusing female vampires their prey. On the other hand, he shows some loyalty to his man servants, like Lord Courtley in Taste the Blood of Dracula, wowing to get revenge for him.
shareUnlike in the movies he does go out of his way to please his wives or concubines in the novel. In one scene in the book he brings back a sack with a toddler whom he feeds to his pretty harem. The next day the mother of the missing child shows up at the castle demanding her child back.
And if I remember correctly he sicks a pack of wolves on her.
I kind of suspect him as something of a mysoginist.
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