I was finishing up this image/meme when I suddenly remembered a bunch of other Draculas that could be there:
I was gonna just add them all in, but then I was like: is that too many images? Maybe I should remove some and keep it at 12? But which should I remove? I was paralyzed by fear and horror, and felt a mist rising around me, and in the distance a wolf howled. So I decided to leave it as a topic of discussion: WHICH SHOULD I ADD/REMOVE, IF ANY?
This was inspired by discussion during the recent meme full of vampire pics, when @railcar@midwest.social mentioned a bunch of Draculas at once.
Feedback on your selection:
I'd drop the Draculas from Dracula III and Blade III. Neither of those are exactly beloved films. Then you have room to slip in the new 2025 Dracula and Van Helsing's without expanding to 15.
If you do want a few options to expand, I'd suggest: Claes Bang (BBC/Netflix 2020), Duncan Regehr (Monster Squad), and Keith-Lee Castle (Young Dracula). They're all a bit more on the silly side and none would necessarily be my choice, but I feel like they might be someone's - especially if they grew up watching the latter two.
Also, regarding your choice to disinclude Nosferatu -- the 1979 Nosferatu used the traditional Stoker names, including "Count Dracula", so if your only objection is the name that remake should qualify. And it's an absolutely beautiful film, definitely worth a watch (if unethical behind the scenes behaviour ruins films for you, though, I'd stay away from reading up on it...)
My own choice:
Joining the ranks of Gary Oldman lovers -- although if it matched your criteria, Skarsgard would come out on top.
oh yeah thanks for the suggestion, I think I'll do that.
yeah I've been meaning to watch that, bc I'm a big fan of "Aguirre, the Wrath of God." I noticed that about them using the Dracula name in a Nosferatu movie, but thought it'd be confusing.
tbh I didn't have any principled reason for excluding Nosferatus, it was just a spur-of-the-moment decision to reduce the number of possibilities which is quite large. But it sounds like I've excluded two of the best candidates. I'm thinking of re-doing this with the 2024, 1979, and 1922 Nosferatus, whatdayathink? Prolly removing Javier Botet and Leslie Nielsen and Udo Kier to the "alternate candidates" list, text-only.
Yeah, I get it - an insane number of people have been Dracula, you need to limit the list somehow. But especially when we're less than a year out from the Egger's Nosferatu, I think people will really want to have that one available. And if that's on the list, it'd be weird not to include the original, since it's so historic and iconic.
So I think I'd include those two but, despite what I said about the names, maybe you can skip '79 just on the grounds that it's very aesthetically similar to the '22 version? Picturing the list those two side by side might feel redundant, whereas Egger's version has a much more distinct look.
But it's all debatable. And the end of the day, we've just been spoiled by too many Draculas.
Awesome idea, thanks, I think I'll do that in the next version, probably in a couple weeks to give time for more feedback.