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Diary of a Vampire: The Legacy of Bram Stoker

Name: Diary of a Vampire: The Legacy of Bram Stoker
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-07-01
Duration: 60 min

2008 · 1h 0m · Documentary

Skip it—this doc sounds like pretentious gothic navel-gazing that mistakes flowery quotes for actual insight into Bram Stoker's work. Unless you're a diehard Dracula scholar desperate for any new angle, you'll get more out of rewatching the novel itself or a sharp literary analysis.

Plot

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part." Bram Stoker What are the mysteries which mere men can only guess at? Have we finally solved all the puzzles? "To die, to be really dead, that would be glorious." Dracula Why would it be glorious to be really dead? What message was Bram Stoker trying to tell us in his tales of Dracula? One of the darkest tales ever to emerge from the mind of man is the story of the arch-Vampire, Dracula.

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