Dracula book: an evil count who only sees the world as a resource to be drained for his own pleasure is stopped by the group of people who deeply care for each other

Dracula in media: a tragic romantic hero, main love interest of one of the protagonists who must be liberated from her dull little life

Frankenstein book: any human has capacity for evil when completely abandoned and shunned by the world and the people who brought him into it

Frankenstein in media: don't play God because it's against nature's laws

Jekyll and Hyde book: repression and only caring about external appearances can cause your worst impulses to indulge themselves in dangerous ways if ignored for too long

Nosferatu is repulsive, rotting, vile, he is the personification of evil. Yet everyone just thirsts after him.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not shaming the monster lovers, but it just was not meant to be the point.

Nosferatu is Ellen. It is heavily implied that she was raped as a young girl, the same time this connection with Nosferatu began. She called for help, and he's the only thing that answered. She was assaulted, and moved through the world in shame, grief, depression, all because of what happened to her. She isn't getting the help she needs because it's all chocked up to her being dramatic by those who love her, and the doctors big ideas are just "too much blood in the womb." She's self sabatoging, that with no one *truly* understanding her plight, ruins the world around her. Nosferatu is just the physical manifestation of all of this going on around her.

As a side note: what really pisses me off about everyone thirsting over Nosferatu is the fact that Thomas is over here being the best little green flag he could be in this horror film, and he gets ZERO attention.

This man crawled out of the brink of death to return to his wife, and while he was still one who didn't completely understand Ellen, he fucking tried! Grumble Grumble Grumble.

NORTH OF NORTH (2025) costume appreciation: "Inuk Bridgerton" (Series Costume Design by Debra Hanson)

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