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The final outcome-SPOILER

posted 11 years ago by Tresix
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The doctor reads in the book how to kill Dracula and simply gives Billy a scalpel saying that a spike has to be driven into his heart. However, the spike has to be made of wood not metal. Then again, the gun to the face did hurt Drac. But they should have stuck with that point of the legend. (However, in Stoker's novel, Dracula is killed with three large, ordinary knives. So I guess we can draw our own conclusions.)

"I'm in such bad shape, I'm wearing prescription underwear." Phyllis Diller 1917-2012

[–] Forgotten_Hero 11 years ago

While it's certainly not a good adaptation, it's strangely more faithful to the novel than most Hollywood interpretations of Dracula. He has a mustache, he speaks fluent English without accent, he's not killed by sunlight, and he becomes enamored with another man's fiancee after first seeing her in a photograph. I don't know if it's intentionally borrowed from the novel or not, but his gentlemanly demeanor also gives way to bouts of anger or rudeness as well.

[–] BoxOfficePoison 11 years ago

The scariest part of the whole movie was their calling that railroad spike a scalpel. Imagine her performing surgery with that thing -- yikes!