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Headcanon explaination for the muteness

posted 9 years ago by CountVladDracula
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I already know the stories of how Christopher Lee claims the script to Dracula Prince of Darkness was just so bad he refused to speak his lines while the script writer claims Dracula had no lines in that movie because he’s ‘scarier that way.” But as Dracula does speak in every other Hammer film in that continuity before and after this one I have invented my own headcanon.

The reason Dracula does not speak in this one is because he either A. Was not fully resurrected yet, having just been revised via the blood vat. or B. Was resurrected wrong somehow / incomplete where he couldn’t speak. This accounts for the grunts and dramatic pointing at scenes where he should be talking. And somehow this flaw in his resurrection (or incompletion) was corrected by the time you get to Dracula has Risen from the Grave.Dra

[–] Mithrandir-Olorin33 9 years ago

Your theory reminds me of how in the Mabinogion those raised from the dead by Bran The Blessed's Cauldron cannot speak. A myth that might have been an influence on the Holy Grail mythology.

I've long thought of doing a dark take on the Holy Grail, that makes it all about Vampirism.

"It's made up of facts, that doesn't make it true"-Spencer Hastings