YMMV / Dracula's Daughter

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Marya herself is a good candidate for being the personification of this:
  • Was she really Dracula's biological daughter? Or his "vampire daughter"? Did he transform her, or was she born as a vampire?
  • She was a full vampire? Or a dhampir? Since she mentioned her presumably human mom, she can drink tea, and she uses mostly a ring to hypnotize her victims.
  • She was really a legitimate "countess"?
  • Since she wanted Garth, but she also showed some kind of attraction towards Lili and Janet at some point... she was straight, bisexual or a lesbian that was in struggle towards her real orientation too?
  • Marya really wanted Garth to be her vampire partner and that's why she kidnapped Janet? Or after those cure seeking failures, did she know that Von Helsing (a prepared scholar that knows how to kill a vampire) and Scotland Yard were hunting her and she just wanted to die? If her true goal was to die, she succeeded, just in a way she hadn't expected.
• Les Yay:
  • The part where Countess Zaleska invites the woman named Lili to be her model (only to feed on her) is notable. Vampire attacks often invite sexual comparisons, but the Countess first making her victim remove her blouse is somewhat more blatant.
  • Then there's the scene where she's alone in the room with the unconscious Janet. She hovers lovingly over her for a very long time, and descends as if to kiss her, before she's interrupted by hearing Garth enter the castle.
• LGBT Fanbase: The movie have many queer fans for the things explained in the Les Yay section and some LGBT people see Marya herself as a sympathetic character an with similarities in their life experiences.
• The Woobie: Marya. She wants to be cured of her vampirism, but her sinister servant Sandor, seeking the immortality of undeath, keeps manipulating her back into it. Even if she is trying to resist it, it's impossible resist the vampirism and she really don't want to kill anymore, and in most part of the movie (while she is a bit ruthless when her blood thirst or companion wish appears), she looks tired and sad. Try to think a female and vampiric version of Lawrence Talbot and you have Marya Zaleska.

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