Deviations From The Novel
This list is not exhaustive, but intended to convey a sense of the differences between the film and the novel:
- Dracula does not grow younger.
- Mina and Lucy are sisters.
- Quincey Morris and Arthur Holmwood are combined into one character.
- Dracula is portrayed as attractive, urbane, even seductive.
- Dracula is not staked in the book, but has his throat slashed with Harker's kukri and is stabbed through the heart with Morris' Bowie knife.
- Dracula is killed by Professor Van Helsing
- Quincey is wounded, but does not die as in the novel
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