Headscratchers / Horror of Dracula

• Is this movie's version of Jonathan Harker not the worst Vampire Hunter ever? Let's review, shall we?
  • So the twist in the first act is that Harker is not really a hapless boob who's there to introduce Dracula to the wonders of the Dewey Decimal System – he's actually a hapless boob who's there to kill Dracula because he knows he's a vampire. So he got himself hired as a librarian in order to...to...dude, you know it's the vampires who Must Be Invited, right? You couldn't just roll up one day and start staking, Dracula had to know you were coming?
  • Harker arrives during the day, so naturally Drac is absent. Rather than immediately start searching for the coffin, he sits tight and awaits his host. No nailing up crosses, or going hogwild with a flit-gun full of holy water, just waits. He meets Lady Vampire though, and would have died right there if the Count hadn't shown up, because apparently he bought her story even though her fangs are clearly visible in a couple shots.
  • After making nice with the Count, Harker is locked in his bedroom, having squandered his every tactical advantage. Drac leaves the castle until the next night. Harker spends the intervening time doing bugger all. Probably doesn't even sort any books, I bet he's fired.
  • Lady Vampire bats her eyes at him some more, and he gets bitten. Dracula intervenes and, being I guess a good sport(?), puts him back in his bedroom, despite the fact that Harker has now seen him with red eyes and fangs. Either he wants to give Harker a fair go of it, or he just really wants those books sorted.
  • Harker, knowing he's doomed, does what he should have done minute one and goes to look for Dracula's coffin. Takes him ten seconds to find it, and both Dracula and Draculette are helpless. Rather than kill the guy he's actually there to kill, Harker stakes the girl first, turning his back on the Count and the sun setting behind him...
• How is Dracula's castle so clean and tidy in this version? Does he have vampire maids or something? Also, who lit up all those candles prior to Harker's arrival? Was that Drac too? And that food and fruit bowl too – who does the Count's shopping?
  • The next film establishes that he has a servant, Klove, though that raises the question of where he was in this film.
    • In the opening he does tell Harker his housekeeper is away due to "a family bereavement".

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