Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer
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Colette Iselin is excited to go to Paris on a class trip. She’ll get to soak up the beauty and...
The Living Dead (The Living Dead, #1)
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Ideal for fans of iZombie, Colin Morgan, The Walking Dead, iZombie comics, Resident Evil anthology,...
David McK (3713 KP) rated Stoker's Dracula (Marvel Illustrated) in Books
Feb 8, 2026
Basically, read the novel and then watch the film.
Dracula was one of the set texts on that course.
As was the film 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' which, at the time, I was unaware took, shall we say, more than a few liberties with the source material.
Since then, I've never come across a faithful adaptation.
Until now, with this probably the closest I've ever coma across/read/seen.
I'm sure we all know the story as it's part and parcel of popular culture: Dracula, Transylvania, Vampire, Van Helsing ...
Worth a read if you want to stick close but see that original text translated into a visual medium (even if some of the characters did not look *quite* how I imagined them to be).
Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science
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Whether preparing us for economic recovery after the zombie apocalypse, analyzing vampire investment...
Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies
Karl Spracklen, Andy R. Brown, Keith Kahn-Harris and Niall Scott
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This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to...
Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture
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Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read...
David McK (3713 KP) rated Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) in Movies
Dec 31, 2019 (Updated Apr 28, 2020)
It's fair to say that this has permeated popular culture: the bullwhip, the hat, the fear of snakes are all intrinsic to the character and heavily copied over the years (Tomb Raider, anyone? The Uncharted series?), with even TVs The Simpsons doing a parody of the opening tomb robbing scene with Homer chasing Bart and ending up rolling down the stairs.
There's almost too many iconic scenes (and quotes) to count: that tomb robber bit at the start, the fed-up Indy shooting the sword-wielder in Cairo (initially storyboarded as a full on sword fight, except the actors all got sick), the Well of Souls sequence, the escape, "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage", the opening of the Ark by the Nazis and the final warehouse scene, to name but a few!
The Stones: The Acclaimed Biography
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In 2012 the Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary. Their story - the band's meteoric rise...
Paul Smith: A to Z
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Paul Smith has created one of the world's most successful fashion brands. In this richly illustrated...