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Why didn't Anna immediately turn into a vampire?
- when Dracula was feeding on her constantly inside the crate of dirt before Clemens started doing the blood transfusion she doesn't transform at all until she decides to kill herself at the very end.
- Dracula was said to be using her as rations, meaning he was presumably being careful not to transform her into whatever Toby and Olgaren became (whether by controlling how much he drank or just being able to delay the process intrinsically.) Then when Clemens found her, the healthy human blood kept the transformation at bay until the transfusions stopped coming.
- Just before she turned at the end, Dracula caught and fed on her again. This likely hastened her transformation to what we see at the end.
Why didn't they try to scuttle the ship during the day?
- By the time they come up with the ship scuttling plan, it's pretty obvious that Dracula only hunts at night, and while sunlight might not kill him, it did kill his infectees. Wouldn't it be prudent to carry this out when he's most vulnerable? Heck, they could even bring the boxes up top and open them until they find the one Dracula is staying in.
- Came here to post this myself. No matter how I try to rationalize this, I just can’t think of a reason not to do it in the day (or twilight, just so they get as close to England as possible before downgrading to a lifeboat). Even if they were afraid Dracula stayed awake and was haunting the lower decks, that didn’t stop the first mate from prepping the ship for scuttling unbothered.
- For that matter, why didn't they just burn the ship? Even if the weather turned rainy, old wooden ships like that were so permeated with tar as waterproofing that it'd go up like a wax candle. It'd help convince Elliot not to go down with the Demeter after all - not if the alternative is to burn to death like the vampire-spawn did - and they could easily soak a line in tar or wax as a fuse to light from the lifeboat.
How did Dracula reach the man on the lifeboat?
- The whole reason Dracula chartered a boat is because vampires cannot cross open water. So how did he fly from the Demeter to the lifeboat?
- It seems in this adaptation Dracula can at least fly over open water for a short ways. Perhaps in this version of the story, Dracula is just unable to swim across water, or, given the film's anti-superstition tone, this part of the myth is simply not true. This would not completely negate the purpose of chartering a boat, as having to fly the entire way to England would be a tall order (''especially when Dracula appeared quite weak at the beginning) and he presumably had belongings to transport as well. Those fifty crates of dirt weren't going to move themselves, after all.
Why didn't they check the other crates after discovering Anna?
- You would think the possibility that she hadn't stowed away alone would occur to someone. In which case, it'd be pretty important to locate her potential companion, not least because they initially think she's sick with something that might be contagious.
