1- Vampires (all)
Bram Stoker's Victorian horror novel, Dracula, has spawned a vampire craze that has unfortunately found its way into emo teenage angst ... and stripper glitter. Thank you, Robert Hutchinson. The truth is that in only a very few instances do any of the actors picked to portray the Transylvanian noble. Stoker intended for him to originally appear pale and aristocratic with a white pointed beard and mustache in his decrepit castle, slowly regaining his youth in London with the pursuit of Mina Harker. In the most famous incarnation of good ole Vlad, he's seen as an ageless, ominous European aristocrat by Bela Lugosi. The slicked back hair and high collared cloak have become trademarks of the character since. Another version and our personal favorite see him as a bald, bestial nosferatu (also interpreted for Kurt Barlow in Salem's Lot as a deviation from Stephen King's literary version). Perhaps the most accurate portrayals to Stoker's original vision of the Count are Christopher Lee (1969) as the older version and Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) as the younger. What do you think? Who did we miss?