Oh hey, I’d forgotten about this film (which takes place on the ship that first takes Dracula to Yorkshire before wrecking on Whitby beach), neat!
Also Javier Botet (a Spanish actor who specialises in monster roles like in REC., one of the Conjuring films, and IT) is an inspired choice for Dracula. Can’t wait to see how they choose to play him. ^^
Comes out early next year I believe, and I’m hyped. :)
Ooooooooo
I find it weird we’re getting a spin off movie based on something that happens mostly offscreen in the Dracula novel before anyone has ever made an actually faithful adaption of the novel itself.
First the Invitation and then this
I hope that this trend keeps going and also getting weirder and more specific and we get individual movies with no connection to each other adapting one specific aspect of the Dracula novel until they become a combiner you can assemble together into a nonsensical time, space and genre shifting gestalt of the actual novel that runs to like fifteen plus hours long, makes no sense and has actors, characters and roles randomly shift at certain points
I didn’t know he was gay until very recently, but it is nice to see all these horror creators be decent people. I guess there’s a logic of them having made stories of fictional horrors, it makes one more aware of the horrors of the real world and gives them a desire to be better.
The horror genre tends to attract those of us who are LGBTQ for much the same reason why many horror writers and fans tend to be good people….as someone in the Shudder “Queer for Fear” series put it: “We know what it’s like to be the one on the end of that pitchfork”
In Greek mythology, Cronus (also spelt Kronos) is a Titan and the youngest son of Uranus (Heaven/Sky) and Gaia (Earth). He dethroned Uranus and became the world’s first king, ruling over his siblings and fellow Titans. Cronus married his sister Rhea and was eventually overthrown by his son Zeus.
Cronus’ origin story is most famously told in Hesiod’s (c. 700 BCE) Theogony. He is linked to the Roman god Saturn, the Egyptian god Geb, the Phoenician Ēl, and the Hittite/Hurrian god Kumarbi.
