Even bears a resemblance.
Posted on 08/24/2023 9:49:02 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
This date is the 550th anniversary of (in)famous Wallachian dictator/vampire prototype Vlad III Tepes‘s destruction of the town of Amlas, impaling all its surviving citizens.
...And he had frequent recourse to it during his long struggle for power in the treacherous 1450s and 1460s, the period* when Vlad III became famous for the iron-willed cruelty required to exercise power in a Wallachia squeezed between the expanding Ottoman Empire and Hungary.
It was this terrifying period from the late 1450s that made Vlad Dracula — the titular second name inherited from his father‘s investment into the Order of the Dragon, Draco in Latin — the namesake for Bram Stoker‘s famous bloodthirsty Transylvanian noble, and the granddaddy of all its lucrative latter-day offspring.....
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Everyone remembers the impalings of Vlad, but nobody remembers all the atrocities committed by Count Chocula...
A bit unrelated, but the 1973 Jack Palance movie is my favourite Dracula movie.
He had a bad temper, that one.
Even bears a resemblance.
Then there was Jones.
I saw “Renfield” the other night.
I can’t “recommend” it as a worthy and uplifting work of cinematic art, but I did think it was fun.
I saw “Renfield” the other night.
I can’t “recommend” it as a worthy and uplifting work of cinematic art, but I did think it was fun.
Look at him shamelessly feasting on the shrunken heads of his enemies.
Count Chocula killed more people than Dracula could ever dream of. Childhood obesity and all the resulting diseases should never be forgotten.
Two can play at that game. Looks like both have a quite an appetite. The gruesome twosome.
I was leaving Cedar Grove cemetery in Queens NY at dusk one day when off in one of the sections i spotted a single stone with the name DRACULE . Gave me a shiver seeing that thru the twilight.
The germans would kill entire villages over a slight of some nazi in ww2.
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