Bizarre Hollywood Facts About Vampires

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Now for the case of vampiric lore. In 1922's "Nosferatu" starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, there was a terrible mistake made. At the near the very end of the film, a silent film, the vampire has just bitten the heroine and stands up and his reflection is clearly seen in the mirror. Then, a few moments later, as he stands near a window, the sunlight burns him to death. Disintegrates his body. But, a violation of vampiric lore, that a vampire's reflection should never be seen in any mirror. Now, let's fast forward to 1931of course we have the famous film "Dracula" starring Bela Lugosi where Dr. Van Helsing, portrayed by Edward Van Sloan stressed that vampire images are never seen in a mirror. But then you must fast forward to 1948 and the film "Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein" in which Bela Lugosi, once again states his rule as Count Dracula AKA also known as Baron Latose in that film. In one scene, Lenore Aubert, playing a doctor who promised to transfer Costello's brain into the monster's head was refusing now to do so. So Lugosi, i.e. the vampire, was hypnotizing her in front of a dresser mirror and we clearly saw his image! Total violation of vampiric principle especially since this was a Universal film and in 1931they told us you can't see a vampiric image. Possibly, they were trying to show his image wasn't cast in the mirror but didn't notice at rushes...I don't know how they would have missed it...that it was clearly seen. Terrible violation of vampiric lore. By the way, for that film, Lugosi's agent, Don Marlowe, had promised the world to him. Then Universal said they wanted somebody else and they didn't want to give it to Lugosi. So he put them to shame. He said "You only paid him $3,500 for the original Dracula. You made millions on it and you owe him this role." And he did land it and he really enjoyed working on it. Others in it included Vincent Price playing the Invisible Man at the very end, Lon Chaney as the Wolf Man, Glenn Strange as Dracula...as Frankenstein... and Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man

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