However Dracula films over time show it is evident that horror monsters are becoming more human and less other.
- Orlok in Nosferatu is a horrific representation of a monster and as far from humanity as the film-makers could imagine at the time. He is shown to be bald, pale, pointy eared, hunchbacked, thick browed, with dark sunken eyes, creepy long fingers and high shoulders all creating a odd, unattractive and disturbing being.
- Christopher Lee's portrayal of Dracula was charismatic and attractive. He was presented visually human.
- Francis Ford Coppola represented Bram Stoker's Dracula with deep emotional qualities and rooted the character's 'otherness' to his past experiences. Making the 'monster' not only visualy human but humain by giving the character motivation and aims making him more relatable yet still ruthless
The transformation of the popular Dracula monstrous character over time shows how horror continuously adapts and changes in order to surprise its audience, and begs the question can a monster ever be attractive or will we have to be disgusted or diffrentiated from them in order for the horror to be effective.
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