Ravenloft, the Movie

[Clint_L]

There’s a Dracula movie basically every other year and most aren’t good plus vampire shows so strahd makes more sense than even Dragonlance! Plus it’s vastly different from the other 99%

Most Dracula movies - they go to Transylvania for purchase-the fight over 3 bites-maybe some renfeield stuff-Dracula dies

Strahd brings heroes plural to barovia-the heroine is targeted but isn’t as helpless-search for some artifacts and fights ensue with some cool monsters- the big fight at the castle. . Maybe all the heroes don’t survive/suprise scares etc.

In the last 5 years I just checked there’s been a ton of vampire movies as it’s something Hollywood likes
Sinners
Abigail
Midnight mass
Renfeld
Last voyage of Demeter
Others as well day shift, morbius the invitation. I’d. Count 20 more

Bring in the classic party plus some red shirts from the town. Add in van richten/maybe his son plus the other npcs you got a hit Done right

You are not summarizing most Dracula movies very well.

Typically, they are not primarily set in Transylvania. London is the most used setting, but Demeter (I just watched it; it's not very good) is set almost entirely onboard the ship. And plenty are set in...well, pretty much any location you could imagine. "Dracula in America" is basically a subgenre to itself (c.f Renfield - fun; more of a superhero origin film). Plus there are a host of Dracula knock-off films, which is what this would be - is there anyone seriously arguing that Strahd is not a Dracula knock-off?

Most of these films are bad, but most are also B horror films, which is a wildly inconsistent genre, to say the least. And there are some absolute gems in there (big fan of the original Fright Night, and the Buffy movie, while a bit undercooked, was kind of a Dracula knock-off that launched the iconic series). I don't see much in the Strahd character that stands out as exceptionally different, but, sure, all it takes is a good script and filmmaker.

(Speaking of Buffy, that series' take on Dracula in the Season 5 premiere is excellent fun).

 

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You are not summarizing most Dracula movies very well.

Typically, they are not primarily set in Transylvania. London is the most used setting, but Demeter (I just watched it; it's not very good) is set almost entirely onboard the ship. And plenty are set in...well, pretty much any location you could imagine. "Dracula in America" is basically a subgenre to itself (c.f Renfield - fun; more of a superhero origin film). Plus there are a host of Dracula knock-off films, which is what this would be - is there anyone seriously arguing that Strahd is not a Dracula knock-off?

Most of these films are bad, but most are also B horror films, which is a wildly inconsistent genre, to say the least. And there are some absolute gems in there (big fan of the original Fright Night). I dpn't see much in the Strahd character that stands out as exceptionally different, but, sure, all it takes is a good script and filmmaker.

The biggest difference could be as it all hypothetical is most Dracula movies he doesn’t fight the heroes except sometimes a quick scene and he uses sometime human followers/brides and it’s never a action movie/tv series

Dementir which was ok starts on a boat that leads to London but isn’t the cargo loaded in or near transalvania . Plus harker often gets trapped there etc as they try to be faithful to the book. Fright night underrated. Big fan of mcdowall

 

[Clint_L]

Because it's apropos as a deconstruction of Dracula tropes and also super entertaining: