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In celebration of New Moon's opening, we're exploring your favorite movie & TV vampires and putting them head-to-head (or fang to fang). Feel free to chime in with your thoughts as we match up two different bloodsuckers every day this week. This is the last of our pairings, but feel free to dream up your own cage matches: Dakota Fanning’s Jane (New Moon) vs. Kirsten Dunst’s Claudia (Interview with a Vampire)? Kiefer Sutherland's David (The Lost Boys) vs. James Marster’s Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)? Aaliyah's Queen Akasah (Queen of the Damned) vs. Catherine Deneuve's Miriam (The Hunger)? Sesame Street’s The Count vs. Count Chocula?
ROUND FIVE: COUNT DRACULA (BELA LUGOSI) VS. COUNT ORLOK (MAX SCHRECK)
Two old-time scarers who find black-and-white blood just as tasty as the red stuff.
WHO?: This might be our most evenly matched fight yet because it's basically the same character. Bela Lugosi is the classic Count Dracula, starring in the 1931 Universal movie that launched not only his career but a huge wave of monster and horror-theme movies during the decade. Max Schreck is not the big green ogre--he plays Count Orlok in F.W. Murnau's 1922 movie Nosferatu, which is Bram Stoker's story but with the characters renamed for legal reasons.
UN-UNDEAD SOULMATE: Mina Harker nee Seward (played by Helen Chandler) for Lugosi; Ellen Hutter (Greta Schroeder) for Schreck
INSTEAD OF HUMANS, THEY DRINK FROM: These guys wrote the book on human sustenance, as in, using humans for sustenance.
PHYSICAL STRENGTHS: Dracula hypnotizes people and transforms into a bat. Interestingly, Orlok kills his victims outright instead of creating undead companions.
PHYSICAL WEAKNESSES: Both guys avoid wooden stakes and sunlight, surely resulting in Vitamin D deficiencies.
WOOING: Dracula bites Mina, but ultimately loses her. Orlok wins Ellen, but at a high cost.
Which vampire would win this bout? --David
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