Niche Vampire Films to Watch If You Hate Jonathan Harker
If you’ve seen 1931’s Dracula , the basic formula of all subsequent adaptations will feel pretty familiar: Jonathan Harker, or some other pasty wimp with a similar name, helps his friendly Eastern European host buy an English home—after a bit of torture, his host sails off to England to steal his fiancée, and it’s finally up to Jonathan and scientist Van Helsing to defeat the vampire. This structure and the unnecessary foregrounding of its white-bread protagonist can start to feel anemic...
