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* AllJustADream: Dracula wakes up in the middle of the day, finds that he's unaffected by the sun's rays, and thinks that it must have something to do with feeding on Lucy's blood. He deduces that she must've cured his vampirism, and he then takes the opportunity to take a stroll through the park, asking a picnicking couple for their chicken and trying their wine. When Renfield arrives on the scene wondering why Dracula was out in the daytime, Dracula assures him that he's been cured, only to start smoking from his armpits, which Renfield points out. Dracula realizes his mistake, then starts running in place back to his coffin, only to wake up running and screaming inside of his coffin at night. He then realizes that everything that happened was all a dream.
* AnythingButThat: Renfield when being subjected to another enema:
-->'''Renfield:''' "[[BigNo No!]] Not another [[AssShove enema]]!"
-->'''Renfield:''' "[[BigNo No!]] Not another [[AssShove enema]]!"
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%%* BedlamHouse: Where Renfield is kept and treated with enemas.
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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: PlayedForLaughs when the main character has to stake his fiancee's vampiric sister. The resulting blow causes a geyser of blood that coats him and everything in the room in copious amounts of blood. But wait, she's still not quite dead yet... Time for another whack.
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* BrickJoke: Van Helsing has to get the last word.
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* BrickJoke: BrickJoke:
** Van Helsing has to get the last word.
** Van Helsing has to get the last word.
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%%* BritishStuffiness: A main source of humor in the film.
%%-->'''Jonathan''': The opera is astonishing. The music is fraught with love, hate, sensuality, and unbridled passion... [[EstablishingCharacterMoment all the things in my life I've managed to suppress.]]
%%-->'''Jonathan''': The opera is astonishing. The music is fraught with love, hate, sensuality, and unbridled passion... [[EstablishingCharacterMoment all the things in my life I've managed to suppress.]]
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%%-->'''Jonathan''':
-->'''Jonathan''': The opera is astonishing. The music is fraught with love, hate, sensuality, and unbridled passion... [[EstablishingCharacterMoment all the things in my life I've managed to suppress.]]
* BungledHypnotism: Happens a couple times:
** First, Dracula glamours a theater usher into calling Dr. Seward to the lobby so he can "coincidentally" meet him, but after telling the usher what he wants her to do, he adds, "You will forget everything I told you." Needless to say, she approaches the group and completely forgets what she was supposed to say.
** Later, he tries to get to Mina in her bedroom but has to also "steer" her maid, and -- thanks to AmbiguousSyntax -- the two women end up running right into each other, leading to a hilarious {{facepalm}} from Dracula.
** First, Dracula glamours a theater usher into calling Dr. Seward to the lobby so he can "coincidentally" meet him, but after telling the usher what he wants her to do, he adds, "You will forget everything I told you." Needless to say, she approaches the group and completely forgets what she was supposed to say.
** Later, he tries to get to Mina in her bedroom but has to also "steer" her maid, and -- thanks to AmbiguousSyntax -- the two women end up running right into each other, leading to a hilarious {{facepalm}} from Dracula.
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* CeilingCling:
** Dracula uses this to escape detection. A slamming door causes him to come loose.
** Dracula uses this to escape detection. A slamming door causes him to come loose.
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* CeilingCling:
**CeilingCling: Dracula uses this to escape detection. A slamming door causes him to come loose.
**
* CreaturesByManyOtherNames: Parodied YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord for "[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]":
--> '''[=VanHellsing=]''': She is ''nosferatu''.\\
'''Harker''': She's '''''Italian?!'''''
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Used as a throwaway gag. [[TheRenfield Renfield]] is sitting in his cell at the asylum, when another man speaks to him through the slot, saying he can't take it there anymore, the screams, the crazy faces, that the walls are closing in on him, etc. Then his boss tells him to get back to work. Turns out he's a security guard, not a patient.
--> '''[=VanHellsing=]''': She is ''nosferatu''.\\
'''Harker''': She's '''''Italian?!'''''
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Used as a throwaway gag. [[TheRenfield Renfield]] is sitting in his cell at the asylum, when another man speaks to him through the slot, saying he can't take it there anymore, the screams, the crazy faces, that the walls are closing in on him, etc. Then his boss tells him to get back to work. Turns out he's a security guard, not a patient.
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* DreamSequence: Dracula has a "[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment daymare]]," where he believes his vampirism is cured and goes out to enjoy the beauty of the light. Then he bursts into flame and wakes up screaming and running.
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* DreamSequence: Dracula has a "[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment daymare]]," "daymare", where he believes his vampirism is cured and goes out to enjoy the beauty of the light. Then he bursts into flame and wakes up screaming and running.
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** EyePoke: Jonathan's response.
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* AFoggyDayInLondonTown: PlayedForLaughs; the EstablishingShot of London is simply a impenetrable cloud of white fog, and the plaque of the opera house where the next scene takes place only becomes visible when the camera is two feet from it.
* AGlassOfChianti: Dracula says, "I never drink...wine. Ah, what the hell. <sip> It's good!"
* GoodNightSweetPrince: The movie does this only to have the graveyard keeper find Lucy 'awake' having turned into a vampire.
* GoryDiscretionShot: At one point, the protagonist has to drive a stake into a vampire whose body is obscured by a coffin, but in doing so he gets [[BloodyHilarious sprayed with a ridiculous amount of blood]]. He complains by telling Van Helsing "You never told me there'd be this much blood!", to which Van helsing replies: "Of course there is! She just ate recently! Why do you think I'm behind the wall!?"
* GoodNightSweetPrince: The movie does this only to have the graveyard keeper find Lucy 'awake' having turned into a vampire.
* GoryDiscretionShot: At one point, the protagonist has to drive a stake into a vampire whose body is obscured by a coffin, but in doing so he gets [[BloodyHilarious sprayed with a ridiculous amount of blood]]. He complains by telling Van Helsing "You never told me there'd be this much blood!", to which Van helsing replies: "Of course there is! She just ate recently! Why do you think I'm behind the wall!?"
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-->'''Dracula''': Renfield, I meant for you to use the drain pipe. ''I'' fly, ''you'' don't.
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-->'''Dracula''': Renfield, I meant for you to use the drain pipe. ''I'' fly, ''you'' don't.\\
'''Renfield''': Oh yes, of course! He flies, I don't... He flies, I don't...
'''Renfield''': Oh yes, of course! He flies, I don't... He flies, I don't...
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%%* HighPressureBlood: The staking scene.
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** Midway through, Van Helsing has the hero pound a stake into vampirized Lucy Westenra. At the first blow of the hammer, the hero gets drenched with about 30 gallons of blood rocketing out of the coffin with the force of a fire hose. Van Helsing is safely out of the way, having taken shelter behind a pillar.
** Another example is when Renfield gets a "paper-cut" and an obnoxious fountain of blood shoots out of his finger, much to the delight of Dracula.
* ImOkay: Dracula falls down a flight of stairs, then tosses off an "I'm fine!" A moment later, you can see his ''shadow'' limping up the stairs behind him.
* ImplausibleDeniability: [[TheRenfield Renfield]] eats bugs in front of Dr. Seward, and pretends he's not doing anything.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: The movie gives a ShoutOut to ''Film/Dracula1931'' when Dr. Seward expresses his incredulity by asking who could possibly be a vampire, at which point the maid announces, "Count Dracula!"
* ImplausibleDeniability: [[TheRenfield Renfield]] eats bugs in front of Dr. Seward, and pretends he's not doing anything.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: The movie gives a ShoutOut to ''Film/Dracula1931'' when Dr. Seward expresses his incredulity by asking who could possibly be a vampire, at which point the maid announces, "Count Dracula!"
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* MoodWhiplash: The opening credits are this up to eleven. They consist entirely of an incredibly foreboding and dramatic orchestral score playing over increasingly disturbing images of how vampires were depicted throughout history. It very effectively sets the mood...for a far more terrifying and serious movie than the silly comedy it actually is. Many viewers, even those who do not like the movie, often consider it the best and most memorable part, mostly because of how out of place it seems and how surprisingly well-done it is (Creator/JamesRolfe has said it might be the greatest opening to any vampire movie ever).
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* MoodWhiplash: MoodWhiplash:
** The opening creditsare this up to eleven. They consist entirely of an incredibly foreboding and dramatic orchestral score playing over increasingly disturbing images of how vampires were depicted throughout history. It very effectively sets the mood...for a far more terrifying and serious movie than the silly comedy it actually is. Many viewers, even those who do not like the movie, often consider it the best and most memorable part, mostly because of how out of place it seems and how surprisingly well-done it is (Creator/JamesRolfe has said it might be the greatest opening to any vampire movie ever).
** The opening credits
* NeckLift: Jonathan gets this treatment by the title vampire', but he counters with an eye poke.
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%%* PivotalWakeup: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by a chandelier.
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** Jonathan Harker is instructed to hammer a stake through the heart of a vampirized Lucy Westenra. At the first blow, he is utterly '''drenched''' over several seconds by a ''geyser'' of blood from the coffin (which is why Van Helsing took cover behind a pillar). Van Helsing {{handwave}}s it by saying she just ate and directs Harker to hammer the stake again. And Jonathan does so. ''With the exact same result.'' Understandably, he declines to repeat the process a third time:
--->'''Van Helsing:''' She's almost dead!\\
'''Harker:''' She's dead ''enough''!
** Renfield gets a paper cut that results in a fountain of blood erupting from his finger.
* PivotalWakeup:
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* RainOfBlood: This is why Van Helsing insists on standing out of the way during Lucy's staking. He even brags about it to Seward later.
** Not to mention Renfield's finger cut. It squirts like a geyser.
** Not to mention Renfield's finger cut. It squirts like a geyser.
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* RainOfBlood: This is why Parodied. Upon the first blow of the mallet, a jet of gallons and gallons of blood soaks the entire room for about twenty seconds, the one who used the matter complains, and Van Helsing insists on standing out of (who already hid behind a corner beforehand) tells him to keep hammering the way during stake in, it happens again with even more blood. And after the second shot, Van Helsing tells him to keep hammering, declaring that she can't have much blood left, resulting in ''another'' ridiculous Rain Of Blood. Van Helsing then says, "She's almost dead!" The main character replies, "She's dead enough."
* ReactiveContinuousScream: Renfield is sent into Lucy'sstaking. room to remove the garlic protecting her. He sees the sleeping girl and lifts up her bedspread to peep at her. Lucy awakens and screams, causing Renfield to emit an [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl even brags about it to Seward later.
** Not to mention Renfield's finger cut. It squirts like a geyser.higher pitched]] scream.
* ReactiveContinuousScream: Renfield is sent into Lucy's
** Not to mention Renfield's finger cut. It squirts like a geyser.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Dracula says at one point, "They are fools to think they can match wits with me! Me who can control the forces of darkness! Me who has commanded the creatures of the night to do my bidding!" Says the guy who got knocked out of his hiding place by an old Englishman slamming a door. This is the same ancient evil who cannot rise from his coffin without banging his head on the chandelier. And he crashes into Lucy's bedroom window as she closed it.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Renfield survives in the film]]. Funnily enough Reinfield wanted Dracula to punish him for his failure, and the latter just lifts him by his throat.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness.
-->'''Nurse:''' Oh, doctor! Ten out of ten!
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Renfield survives in the film]]. Funnily enough Reinfield wanted Dracula to punish him for his failure, and the latter just lifts him by his throat.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness.
-->'''Nurse:''' Oh, doctor! Ten out of ten!
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-->'''Harker''': I only ''liked'' her!\\
-->'''Van Helsing''': Close enough!
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness.
-->'''Nurse:''' Oh, doctor! Ten out of ten!
-->'''Van Helsing''': Close enough!
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness.
-->'''Nurse:''' Oh, doctor! Ten out of ten!
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* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness.
-->'''Nurse:''' Oh, doctor! Ten out of ten!
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Dracula says at one point, "They are fools to think they can match wits with me! Me who can control the forces of darkness! Me who has commanded the creatures of the night to do my bidding!" Says the guy who got knocked out of his hiding place by an old Englishman slamming a door. This is the same ancient evil who cannot rise from his coffin without banging his head on the chandelier.
** Not to mention that he crashes into Lucy's bedroom window as she closed it. Who would have thought you can keep out vampires with [[Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding Windex]]? (That has some basis in myth, actually -- that a vampire can't enter a house without being invited in, and is actually reflected in the original novel, but in this case it has no plot relevance at all.)
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Renfield survives in the film]]. Funnily enough Reinfield wanted Dracula to punish him for his failure, and the latter just lifts him by his throat
%%** [[spoiler:And the brides, apparently, as the climax doesn't move back to Dracula's castle. Thus, they're not staked.]]
** Not to mention that he crashes into Lucy's bedroom window as she closed it. Who would have thought you can keep out vampires with [[Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding Windex]]? (That has some basis in myth, actually -- that a vampire can't enter a house without being invited in, and is actually reflected in the original novel, but in this case it has no plot relevance at all.)
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Renfield survives in the film]]. Funnily enough Reinfield wanted Dracula to punish him for his failure, and the latter just lifts him by his throat
%%** [[spoiler:And the brides, apparently, as the climax doesn't move back to Dracula's castle. Thus, they're not staked.]]
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* VampireDance: Van Helsing and co. set up a party for the high society. Dracula begins an elaborate dance with Mina. Then the cover is pulled off of the floor-length mirror, revealing that Dracula has no reflection.
** Hilarity ensues when he spirals her in the air, and in the mirror it looks like she's flying in circles.
** His first scene with her after hypnotizing her leads to a dance in which he compliments her technique, and his LivingShadow starts humping hers.
* VampiresHateGarlic: The ridiculous amount of garlic that Van Helsing strings up in Lucy's room to protect her from Dracula would drive ''anybody'' away, living or undead.
** Hilarity ensues when he spirals her in the air, and in the mirror it looks like she's flying in circles.
** His first scene with her after hypnotizing her leads to a dance in which he compliments her technique, and his LivingShadow starts humping hers.
* VampiresHateGarlic: The ridiculous amount of garlic that Van Helsing strings up in Lucy's room to protect her from Dracula would drive ''anybody'' away, living or undead.
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* VampireDance: Van Helsing and co. set up a party for the high society. Dracula begins an elaborate dance with Mina. Then the cover is pulled off of the floor-length mirror, revealing that Dracula has no reflection.
**reflection. Hilarity ensues when he spirals her in the air, and in the mirror it looks like she's flying in circles.
**circles. His first scene with her after hypnotizing her leads to a dance in which he compliments her technique, and his LivingShadow starts humping hers.
* VampiresHateGarlic:The ridiculous amount of At one point, Van Helsing tries to protect Lucy from vampiric attack by filling her room with so much garlic that Van Helsing strings up in Lucy's room to protect her from Dracula the smell would drive ''anybody'' away, living anyone away whether they're undead or undead.not. It works in the short term - Dracula is unable to enter her room, and has to resort to alternative methods to get to Lucy.
* VampiresSleepInCoffins: Parodied. There's a scene where Dracula levitates majestically from his coffin only to bang his head on a low-hanging chandelier.
**
**
* VampiresHateGarlic:
* VampiresSleepInCoffins: Parodied. There's a scene where Dracula levitates majestically from his coffin only to bang his head on a low-hanging chandelier.
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* VerbalBackpedaling: Played with. When Dracula leaves the ball with Mina, Renfield runs after him calling "Master! Master!... I mean... Mister! Mister!" Shortly afterward:
-->'''Van Helsing:''' He called Dracula "master".\\
'''Jonathan:''' I thought he said "mister".\\
'''Van Helsing:''' That was only a ruse to fool the feeble-minded! No offense.
-->'''Van Helsing:''' He called Dracula "master".\\
'''Jonathan:''' I thought he said "mister".\\
'''Van Helsing:''' That was only a ruse to fool the feeble-minded! No offense.
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* AllJustADream: Dracula wakes up in the middle of the day, finds that he's unaffected by the sun's rays, and thinks that it must have something to do with feeding on Lucy's blood. He deduces that she must've cured his vampirism, and he then takes the opportunity to take a stroll through the park, asking a picnicking couple for their chicken and trying their wine. When Renfield arrives on the scene wondering why Dracula was out in the daytime, Dracula assures him that he's been cured, only to start smoking from his armpits, which Renfield points out. Dracula realizes his mistake, then starts running in place back to his coffin, only to wake up running and screaming inside of his coffin at night. He then realizes that everything that happened was all a dream.
* AnythingButThat: Renfield when being subjected to another enema:
-->'''Renfield:''' "[[BigNo No!]] Not another [[AssShove enema]]!"
-->'''Renfield:''' "[[BigNo No!]] Not another [[AssShove enema]]!"
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%%* BedlamHouse: Where Renfield is kept and treated with enemas.
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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: PlayedForLaughs when the main character has to stake his fiancee's vampiric sister. The resulting blow causes a geyser of blood that coats him and everything in the room in copious amounts of blood. But wait, she's still not quite dead yet... Time for another whack.
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* BrickJoke: Van Helsing has to get the last word.
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* BrickJoke: BrickJoke:
** Van Helsing has to get the last word.
** Van Helsing has to get the last word.
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%%* BritishStuffiness: A main source of humor in the film.
%%-->'''Jonathan''': The opera is astonishing. The music is fraught with love, hate, sensuality, and unbridled passion... [[EstablishingCharacterMoment all the things in my life I've managed to suppress.]]
%%-->'''Jonathan''': The opera is astonishing. The music is fraught with love, hate, sensuality, and unbridled passion... [[EstablishingCharacterMoment all the things in my life I've managed to suppress.]]
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%%-->'''Jonathan''':
-->'''Jonathan''': The opera is astonishing. The music is fraught with love, hate, sensuality, and unbridled passion... [[EstablishingCharacterMoment all the things in my life I've managed to suppress.]]
* BungledHypnotism: Happens a couple times:
** First, Dracula glamours a theater usher into calling Dr. Seward to the lobby so he can "coincidentally" meet him, but after telling the usher what he wants her to do, he adds, "You will forget everything I told you." Needless to say, she approaches the group and completely forgets what she was supposed to say.
** Later, he tries to get to Mina in her bedroom but has to also "steer" her maid, and -- thanks to AmbiguousSyntax -- the two women end up running right into each other, leading to a hilarious {{facepalm}} from Dracula.
** First, Dracula glamours a theater usher into calling Dr. Seward to the lobby so he can "coincidentally" meet him, but after telling the usher what he wants her to do, he adds, "You will forget everything I told you." Needless to say, she approaches the group and completely forgets what she was supposed to say.
** Later, he tries to get to Mina in her bedroom but has to also "steer" her maid, and -- thanks to AmbiguousSyntax -- the two women end up running right into each other, leading to a hilarious {{facepalm}} from Dracula.
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* CeilingCling:
** Dracula uses this to escape detection. A slamming door causes him to come loose.
** Dracula uses this to escape detection. A slamming door causes him to come loose.
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* CeilingCling:
**CeilingCling: Dracula uses this to escape detection. A slamming door causes him to come loose.
**
* CreaturesByManyOtherNames: Parodied YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord for "[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]":
--> '''[=VanHellsing=]''': She is ''nosferatu''.\\
'''Harker''': She's '''''Italian?!'''''
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Used as a throwaway gag. [[TheRenfield Renfield]] is sitting in his cell at the asylum, when another man speaks to him through the slot, saying he can't take it there anymore, the screams, the crazy faces, that the walls are closing in on him, etc. Then his boss tells him to get back to work. Turns out he's a security guard, not a patient.
--> '''[=VanHellsing=]''': She is ''nosferatu''.\\
'''Harker''': She's '''''Italian?!'''''
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Used as a throwaway gag. [[TheRenfield Renfield]] is sitting in his cell at the asylum, when another man speaks to him through the slot, saying he can't take it there anymore, the screams, the crazy faces, that the walls are closing in on him, etc. Then his boss tells him to get back to work. Turns out he's a security guard, not a patient.
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* DreamSequence: Dracula has a "[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment daymare]]," where he believes his vampirism is cured and goes out to enjoy the beauty of the light. Then he bursts into flame and wakes up screaming and running.
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* DreamSequence: Dracula has a "[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment daymare]]," "daymare", where he believes his vampirism is cured and goes out to enjoy the beauty of the light. Then he bursts into flame and wakes up screaming and running.
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** EyePoke: Jonathan's response.
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* AFoggyDayInLondonTown: PlayedForLaughs; the EstablishingShot of London is simply a impenetrable cloud of white fog, and the plaque of the opera house where the next scene takes place only becomes visible when the camera is two feet from it.
* AGlassOfChianti: Dracula says, "I never drink...wine. Ah, what the hell. <sip> It's good!"
* GoodNightSweetPrince: The movie does this only to have the graveyard keeper find Lucy 'awake' having turned into a vampire.
* GoryDiscretionShot: At one point, the protagonist has to drive a stake into a vampire whose body is obscured by a coffin, but in doing so he gets [[BloodyHilarious sprayed with a ridiculous amount of blood]]. He complains by telling Van Helsing "You never told me there'd be this much blood!", to which Van helsing replies: "Of course there is! She just ate recently! Why do you think I'm behind the wall!?"
* GoodNightSweetPrince: The movie does this only to have the graveyard keeper find Lucy 'awake' having turned into a vampire.
* GoryDiscretionShot: At one point, the protagonist has to drive a stake into a vampire whose body is obscured by a coffin, but in doing so he gets [[BloodyHilarious sprayed with a ridiculous amount of blood]]. He complains by telling Van Helsing "You never told me there'd be this much blood!", to which Van helsing replies: "Of course there is! She just ate recently! Why do you think I'm behind the wall!?"
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-->'''Dracula''': Renfield, I meant for you to use the drain pipe. ''I'' fly, ''you'' don't.
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-->'''Dracula''': Renfield, I meant for you to use the drain pipe. ''I'' fly, ''you'' don't.\\
'''Renfield''': Oh yes, of course! He flies, I don't... He flies, I don't...
'''Renfield''': Oh yes, of course! He flies, I don't... He flies, I don't...
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%%* HighPressureBlood: The staking scene.
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** Midway through, Van Helsing has the hero pound a stake into vampirized Lucy Westenra. At the first blow of the hammer, the hero gets drenched with about 30 gallons of blood rocketing out of the coffin with the force of a fire hose. Van Helsing is safely out of the way, having taken shelter behind a pillar.
** Another example is when Renfield gets a "paper-cut" and an obnoxious fountain of blood shoots out of his finger, much to the delight of Dracula.
* ImOkay: Dracula falls down a flight of stairs, then tosses off an "I'm fine!" A moment later, you can see his ''shadow'' limping up the stairs behind him.
* ImplausibleDeniability: [[TheRenfield Renfield]] eats bugs in front of Dr. Seward, and pretends he's not doing anything.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: The movie gives a ShoutOut to ''Film/Dracula1931'' when Dr. Seward expresses his incredulity by asking who could possibly be a vampire, at which point the maid announces, "Count Dracula!"
* ImplausibleDeniability: [[TheRenfield Renfield]] eats bugs in front of Dr. Seward, and pretends he's not doing anything.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: The movie gives a ShoutOut to ''Film/Dracula1931'' when Dr. Seward expresses his incredulity by asking who could possibly be a vampire, at which point the maid announces, "Count Dracula!"
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* MoodWhiplash: The opening credits are this up to eleven. They consist entirely of an incredibly foreboding and dramatic orchestral score playing over increasingly disturbing images of how vampires were depicted throughout history. It very effectively sets the mood...for a far more terrifying and serious movie than the silly comedy it actually is. Many viewers, even those who do not like the movie, often consider it the best and most memorable part, mostly because of how out of place it seems and how surprisingly well-done it is (Creator/JamesRolfe has said it might be the greatest opening to any vampire movie ever).
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* MoodWhiplash: MoodWhiplash:
** The opening creditsare this up to eleven. They consist entirely of an incredibly foreboding and dramatic orchestral score playing over increasingly disturbing images of how vampires were depicted throughout history. It very effectively sets the mood...for a far more terrifying and serious movie than the silly comedy it actually is. Many viewers, even those who do not like the movie, often consider it the best and most memorable part, mostly because of how out of place it seems and how surprisingly well-done it is (Creator/JamesRolfe has said it might be the greatest opening to any vampire movie ever).
** The opening credits
* NeckLift: Jonathan gets this treatment by the title vampire', but he counters with an eye poke.
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%%* PivotalWakeup: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by a chandelier.
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** Jonathan Harker is instructed to hammer a stake through the heart of a vampirized Lucy Westenra. At the first blow, he is utterly '''drenched''' over several seconds by a ''geyser'' of blood from the coffin (which is why Van Helsing took cover behind a pillar). Van Helsing {{handwave}}s it by saying she just ate and directs Harker to hammer the stake again. And Jonathan does so. ''With the exact same result.'' Understandably, he declines to repeat the process a third time:
--->'''Van Helsing:''' She's almost dead!\\
'''Harker:''' She's dead ''enough''!
** Renfield gets a paper cut that results in a fountain of blood erupting from his finger.
* PivotalWakeup:
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* RainOfBlood: This is why Van Helsing insists on standing out of the way during Lucy's staking. He even brags about it to Seward later.
** Not to mention Renfield's finger cut. It squirts like a geyser.
** Not to mention Renfield's finger cut. It squirts like a geyser.
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* RainOfBlood: This is why Parodied. Upon the first blow of the mallet, a jet of gallons and gallons of blood soaks the entire room for about twenty seconds, the one who used the matter complains, and Van Helsing insists on standing out of (who already hid behind a corner beforehand) tells him to keep hammering the way during stake in, it happens again with even more blood. And after the second shot, Van Helsing tells him to keep hammering, declaring that she can't have much blood left, resulting in ''another'' ridiculous Rain Of Blood. Van Helsing then says, "She's almost dead!" The main character replies, "She's dead enough."
* ReactiveContinuousScream: Renfield is sent into Lucy'sstaking. room to remove the garlic protecting her. He sees the sleeping girl and lifts up her bedspread to peep at her. Lucy awakens and screams, causing Renfield to emit an [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl even brags about it to Seward later.
** Not to mention Renfield's finger cut. It squirts like a geyser.higher pitched]] scream.
* ReactiveContinuousScream: Renfield is sent into Lucy's
** Not to mention Renfield's finger cut. It squirts like a geyser.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Dracula says at one point, "They are fools to think they can match wits with me! Me who can control the forces of darkness! Me who has commanded the creatures of the night to do my bidding!" Says the guy who got knocked out of his hiding place by an old Englishman slamming a door. This is the same ancient evil who cannot rise from his coffin without banging his head on the chandelier. And he crashes into Lucy's bedroom window as she closed it.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Renfield survives in the film]]. Funnily enough Reinfield wanted Dracula to punish him for his failure, and the latter just lifts him by his throat.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness.
-->'''Nurse:''' Oh, doctor! Ten out of ten!
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Renfield survives in the film]]. Funnily enough Reinfield wanted Dracula to punish him for his failure, and the latter just lifts him by his throat.
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness.
-->'''Nurse:''' Oh, doctor! Ten out of ten!
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-->'''Harker''': I only ''liked'' her!\\
-->'''Van Helsing''': Close enough!
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness.
-->'''Nurse:''' Oh, doctor! Ten out of ten!
-->'''Van Helsing''': Close enough!
* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness.
-->'''Nurse:''' Oh, doctor! Ten out of ten!
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* {{Squick}}: In-universe, the autopsy scene, with Professor Van Helsing deliberately making his students pass out via ickiness.
-->'''Nurse:''' Oh, doctor! Ten out of ten!
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Dracula says at one point, "They are fools to think they can match wits with me! Me who can control the forces of darkness! Me who has commanded the creatures of the night to do my bidding!" Says the guy who got knocked out of his hiding place by an old Englishman slamming a door. This is the same ancient evil who cannot rise from his coffin without banging his head on the chandelier.
** Not to mention that he crashes into Lucy's bedroom window as she closed it. Who would have thought you can keep out vampires with [[Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding Windex]]? (That has some basis in myth, actually -- that a vampire can't enter a house without being invited in, and is actually reflected in the original novel, but in this case it has no plot relevance at all.)
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Renfield survives in the film]]. Funnily enough Reinfield wanted Dracula to punish him for his failure, and the latter just lifts him by his throat
%%** [[spoiler:And the brides, apparently, as the climax doesn't move back to Dracula's castle. Thus, they're not staked.]]
** Not to mention that he crashes into Lucy's bedroom window as she closed it. Who would have thought you can keep out vampires with [[Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding Windex]]? (That has some basis in myth, actually -- that a vampire can't enter a house without being invited in, and is actually reflected in the original novel, but in this case it has no plot relevance at all.)
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Renfield survives in the film]]. Funnily enough Reinfield wanted Dracula to punish him for his failure, and the latter just lifts him by his throat
%%** [[spoiler:And the brides, apparently, as the climax doesn't move back to Dracula's castle. Thus, they're not staked.]]
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* VampireDance: Van Helsing and co. set up a party for the high society. Dracula begins an elaborate dance with Mina. Then the cover is pulled off of the floor-length mirror, revealing that Dracula has no reflection.
** Hilarity ensues when he spirals her in the air, and in the mirror it looks like she's flying in circles.
** His first scene with her after hypnotizing her leads to a dance in which he compliments her technique, and his LivingShadow starts humping hers.
* VampiresHateGarlic: The ridiculous amount of garlic that Van Helsing strings up in Lucy's room to protect her from Dracula would drive ''anybody'' away, living or undead.
** Hilarity ensues when he spirals her in the air, and in the mirror it looks like she's flying in circles.
** His first scene with her after hypnotizing her leads to a dance in which he compliments her technique, and his LivingShadow starts humping hers.
* VampiresHateGarlic: The ridiculous amount of garlic that Van Helsing strings up in Lucy's room to protect her from Dracula would drive ''anybody'' away, living or undead.
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* VampireDance: Van Helsing and co. set up a party for the high society. Dracula begins an elaborate dance with Mina. Then the cover is pulled off of the floor-length mirror, revealing that Dracula has no reflection.
**reflection. Hilarity ensues when he spirals her in the air, and in the mirror it looks like she's flying in circles.
**circles. His first scene with her after hypnotizing her leads to a dance in which he compliments her technique, and his LivingShadow starts humping hers.
* VampiresHateGarlic:The ridiculous amount of At one point, Van Helsing tries to protect Lucy from vampiric attack by filling her room with so much garlic that Van Helsing strings up in Lucy's room to protect her from Dracula the smell would drive ''anybody'' away, living anyone away whether they're undead or undead.not. It works in the short term - Dracula is unable to enter her room, and has to resort to alternative methods to get to Lucy.
* VampiresSleepInCoffins: Parodied. There's a scene where Dracula levitates majestically from his coffin only to bang his head on a low-hanging chandelier.
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* VampiresHateGarlic:
* VampiresSleepInCoffins: Parodied. There's a scene where Dracula levitates majestically from his coffin only to bang his head on a low-hanging chandelier.
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* VerbalBackpedaling: Played with. When Dracula leaves the ball with Mina, Renfield runs after him calling "Master! Master!... I mean... Mister! Mister!" Shortly afterward:
-->'''Van Helsing:''' He called Dracula "master".\\
'''Jonathan:''' I thought he said "mister".\\
'''Van Helsing:''' That was only a ruse to fool the feeble-minded! No offense.
-->'''Van Helsing:''' He called Dracula "master".\\
'''Jonathan:''' I thought he said "mister".\\
'''Van Helsing:''' That was only a ruse to fool the feeble-minded! No offense.
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** Dracula gets in the last word himself at the very end of the end credits, making this even more hilarious because at that point ''he was DEAD''.
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** Dracula gets in the last word himself at the very end of the end credits, making this even more hilarious because at that point ''he was DEAD''.[[note]]The current home video release from Creator/WarnerBros, the film's current North American owner, have their logo plastered over the Creator/ColumbiaPictures logo at the end apparently to preserve the joke as only the Creator/CastleRockEntertainment logo appears at the front of that version.[[/note]]
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* AdaptedOut: Due to mostly being based on the 1931 film, Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris are both absent. There are also only two vampires brides as opposed to three.
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* AdaptedOut: Due to mostly being based on the 1931 film, Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris are both absent. There are also only two vampires vampire brides as opposed to three.
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* AdaptedOut: Due to mostly being based on the 1931 film, Arthur Holmwood and Quincey Morris are both absent. There are also only two vampires brides as opposed to three.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Dracula is quite appalled when he spots his LivingShadow's more perverted side during his first dance with Mina. "NISHTAI!"
** Dracula is quite appalled when he spots his LivingShadow's more perverted side during his first dance with Mina. "NISHTAI!"
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* EvenEvilHasStandards:
**EvenEvilHasStandards: Dracula is quite appalled when he spots his LivingShadow's more perverted side during his first dance with Mina. "NISHTAI!"
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%%* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Dracula's plans for Mina.
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-->'''You'll be my bride throughout eternity. We'll share the endless passion of immortal love
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%%** Even more hilarious due to EnforcedMethodActing (see the Trivia page).
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%%* CobwebJungle: Carried over from ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'' and PlayedForLaughs.
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%%* GroinAttack: Renfield's gets ''stepped on'' at one point.
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%%* IDoNotDrinkWine: Subverted during Dracula's dream.
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%%* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision A Strike]]: "Renfield, you asshole!"
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%%* RunningGag: Dr. Seward and enemas.
%%-->'''Dr. Seward''': Gives him a feeling of ''accomplishment''.
%%-->'''Dr. Seward''': Gives him a feeling of ''accomplishment''.
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-->'''Dr. Seward''': Gives him a feeling of ''accomplishment''.
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* SilverFox: Lucy shows an immediate attraction to Dracula who has a head full of white hair (Nielsen was 69 at the time the film was released.
%%* StakingTheLovedOne: Parodied.
%%-->'''Van Helsing''': It must be done by one who loved her in life!\\
%%'''Harker''': I only ''liked'' her!\\
%%'''Van Helsing''': Close enough!
%%* StakingTheLovedOne: Parodied.
%%-->'''Van Helsing''': It must be done by one who loved her in life!\\
%%'''Harker''': I only ''liked'' her!\\
%%'''Van Helsing''': Close enough!
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* SilverFox: Lucy shows an immediate attraction to Dracula who has a head full of white hair (Nielsen was 69 at the time the film was released.released).
%%* * StakingTheLovedOne: Parodied.
%%-->'''VanParodied, since Van Helsing tells Harker Lucy has to be staked by someone who loved her in life. Jonathan replies that he only liked her. Helsing tells him it's close enough. To be fair, "liked" actually works too.
-->'''Van Helsing''': It must be done by one who loved her in life!\\
%%'''Harker''': -->'''Harker''': I only ''liked'' her!\\
%%'''Van -->'''Van Helsing''': Close enough!
%%-->'''Van
-->'''Van Helsing''': It must be done by one who loved her in life!\\
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%%* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Renfield.]]
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Mel Brooks has made other movies since then.
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''Dracula: Dead and Loving It'' is, as of this writing, Creator/MelBrooks's last movie, released in 1995 and starring Creator/LeslieNielsen as Dracula.
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''Dracula: Dead and Loving It'' is, as of this writing, Creator/MelBrooks's last movie, is a Creator/MelBrooks movie which was released in 1995 and starring starred Creator/LeslieNielsen as Dracula.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harker has this reaction upon staking and killing the newly vampiric Lucy. Van Helsing assures him that he did the right thing, releasing her from her torment and allowing her eternal rest.
