Nightmare Fuel / Dracula (2020)

"C'mon, Jack. Kiss me like you used to."

• Harker's encounter with his undead predecessors in the first episode. Their rotting, jerkily moving corpses and hisses of "Kill me..." add the cherry on top.
• Jonathan Harker's fate at the hands of Dracula, slowly but surely losing more of his identity and health the more time passes.
  • By the time the series begins, he is neither vampire nor human, and looks positively cadaverous. His hair is gone, his eyes are sunken, and there are open sores on his head. At one point, a fly lands on his face and crawls inside his eye and he doesn't notice.
• The undead baby.
• Dracula crawling out of the wolf's belly. That is all.
• Every time Dracula sees even a drop of blood, he reverts into something... feral...
• Jonathan approaches Mina and Agatha after they have set up a holy circle as a defense against Dracula. Against Agatha's orders, Mina invites him in, but upon embracing him, realizes his eyes don't match the man she loves. Turns out it's actually Dracula, who has flayed Jonathan and worn his skin as a suit.
  Dracula: (as Jonathan) They're not my eyes...
• Agatha's epiphany when she learns she's the sick passenger in cabin no. 9.
• Every vampire can only die if they are staked through the heart by somebody else or if they drink poisoned blood.
• The mundane manner in which Dracula matter-of-factly tells the house wife that her abusive husband never loved her, he only liked beating her. He knows because he drank his blood, and that can't get anymore "in his head" than that. If anything, this is both chilling and poignant to second-hand see into the mind of someone so cruel that they took advantage of a woman's love so they could have someone to kick around every day.
• Just the concept of "The Sufferers" in general. It's never made clear what causes someone to become one, and what the difference between just being undead and being a vampire is (though Dracula's comments to Lucy do suggest that there is a distinction). The implication is that for whatever reason, some of the deceased remain fully conscious while their bodies rot. We hear some of them knocking and pounding on their coffins, begging to be helped. Arguably the worst is the woman who's just counting, and has reached into the millions.
  • We get to see one of the Sufferers: a little boy of no more than four or five with a blackened, skeletal face. The young child's unsettling giggles of "Peekaboo!" and "Bloofer lady!" are especially creepy. And Lucy is delighted by it!
    Dracula: Some of the little ones wriggle their way to the surface. They can smell the worms.
  • Lucy learns why it's a bad idea to interact with the undead: the little boy follows her home and appears at the foot of her bed, creeping slowly towards her. If Dracula hadn't shown up at just that moment, who knows what would have happened? (Not that things get any better for Lucy after that...)
  • Even worse is the possibility that Dracula led the child to Lucy's house on purpose, to trick her into allowing him entrance to her room.
• Dracula killing Lucy in her bed, taking the final step to make her into a vampire. Afterwards, her dead body remains conscious, unable to move, screaming internally, while she hears Dracula's voice in her head telling her that she will revive soon...
• Another nasty addition to the updated story: rather than being buried and rising from her grave as a vampire, Lucy is cremated by her family. We get to see the entire, horrific scene, as her casket is wheeled into the crematorium and fed into the furnace, all while she screams and claws at the lid in agony.
• Lucy's vampiric form. Her flesh is burnt to a crisp from the crematorium, a few whispy strands of hair cling to her charred scalp, and the sequins from her dress have melted into her skin.
• Zoey's cancer being depicted as a Jump Scare of a snarling ghoul. That about sums up what a monstrous disease it is...

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