Dracula

Count Dracula is the title character and primary antagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered thus to be both the prototypical and the archetypical vampire in subsequent works of fiction. Some aspects of the character are believed to have been inspired by the 15th-century Romanian general and Wallachian Prince Vlad III the Impaler, who was also known as Dracula. Other character aspects have been added or altered in subsequent popular media fictional works. The character has subsequently appeared frequently in popular culture, from films to animated media to breakfast cereals.

Literature

 * Dracula, the 1897 novel by Bram Stoker that tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing

Films

 * Dracula (1931 English-language film), a film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula
 * Dracula (1931 Spanish-language film), a film directed by George Melford and starring Carlos Villerias
 * Dracula's Daughter, a 1936 sequel to the 1931 English Dracula written by Garrett Fort and directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, and Edward Van Sloan
 * Dracula (1958 film) (aka The Horror of Dracula), a film written by Jimmy Sangster and directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
 * Dracula: Prince of Darkness, a 1966 film written by John Samson and directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee
 * Count Dracula (1970 film), a film written by Anthony Hinds and directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Christopher Lee
 * Dracula A.D. 1972, a 1972 film written by Don Houghton and directed by Alan Gibson and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
 * Dracula (1979 film), a film directed by John Badham and starring Frank Langella and Sir Laurence Olivier
 * Love at First Bite, a 1979 horror comedy written and directed by Robert Kaufman and directed by Stan Dragoti
 * Bram Stoker's Dracula, a 1992 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins, and Winona Ryder
 * Dracula: Dead and Loving It, a 1995 parody film written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Leslie Nielsen as the Count
 * Dracula 2000, a 2000 film written and directed by Patrick Lussier in which Van Helsing's daughter discovers Dracula's identity to be Judas Iscariot
 * Dracula: The Dark Prince, a 2013 film written by Nicole Jones-Dion and Steven Paul and directed by Pearry Reginald Teo and starring Luke Roberts and Jon Voight
 * Dracula Untold, a 2014 film written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless and directed by Gary Shore chronicling the sequence of events that led Prince Vlad Dracula, also referred to as the Lord Impaler, to become a vampire
 * The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a 2023 film written by Bragi F. Schut, Jr. and Zak Olkewicz and directed by André Øvredal that follows the doomed crew of the merchant ship Demeter stalked by Dracula/Nosferatu starring Javier Botet

Other related films

 * Nosferatu, a 1922 German silent film loosely based on Stoker's novel, directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck
 * Van Helsing, a 2004 action film about demon hunter Van Helsing who must team up with the last Gypsy princess to kill Dracula and his brides
 * Hotel Transylvania, a 2012 animated film in which Dracula owns a hotel frequented by various monsters
 * Hotel Transylvania 2, a 2015 followup in which Drac becomes a grandfather
 * Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, a 2018 followup in which Drac and the Pack take a monster vacation on a cruise

Television

 * "Buffy vs. Dracula", the first episode of season 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which originally aired 26 September 2000
 * Dracula (TV series), a 2013 drama series, airing on NBC and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers
 * Hotel Transylvania: The Series, a 2017 prequel series

Video games

 * Castlevania (series), Castlevania is a long running video game series created and developed by Konami, about the generations of the Belmont clan, a family of vampire hunters who wield magical whips and other mystical items, and their war against the immortal vampire Dracula and his monstrous servants.