Episode 104: Bram Stoker’s Dracula

No Story Is Sacred

In this episode we discuss the 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula. You can stream it from Netflix, or rent it from YouTube, or Amazon Prime.

Content warnings for strong language, sex, violence, blood, drinking blood, murder, consent issues, sexual assault and metaphors for sexual assault, sex-shaming, Catholicism, discussion of suicide and references to certain religious views on suicide, vampiric wiles, vomit, Keanu Reeve’s hair, truly awful head puns, crimes against ADR, and spending the whole time thinking Van Helsing dies in the end when he doesn’t actually.

We reference or spoil: Bram Stoker‘s Dracula (1897), The Matrix, Van Helsing (2004 film), Nosferatu, Le Fanu‘s Carmilla, Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Buffy vs. Dracula”, Carmilla (2019), Lord Byron‘s The Vampyre, Emily Gerard‘s Transylvania: The Land Beyond the Forest, Keanu Reeves is a vampire meme, the Bram Stoker’s Dracula video game, the Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein video game, the Star Trek Comedy Album, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Loki (television series), Upstairs/Downstairs, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by The Beatles, Ghostbusters (1984), Mean Girls, the horror trope of “final girls”, Annie Lennox cover of “Every Time we Say Goodbye”, the Victorian “New Woman”, Bill & Ted, John the Baptist, Pietà, “Love Song for a Vampire” by Annie Lennox, found footage film, The Lord of the Rings, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, Bela Lugosi, Joss Whedon’s general terrible-ness, Buffy episode “Innocence”, Castlevania (video game and cartoon), The Mummy, Black Widow, Pacific Rim, Gypsy (musical), Cher’s song “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves”, Nancy Drew novels, Peter Whismy novels, Romeo and Juliet, “Hungry Like the Wolf” by Duran Duran, His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, “women in refrigerators” trope, X-Men, and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

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The transcript will be available soon on nostoryissacred.com.