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Originally posted by alkytrio666
Dracula doesn't appear during the day, which is wrong in general (which actually is the same idea as the "vamp goes poof in the light" theory you blamed on Nosferatu).you.
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Actually, it isn't the same thing.
Stoker tells us that vampires rest in their coffins by day, and the 1931 DRACULA tells us the same thing. Stoker confuses the issue by having the Count appear in daylight from time to time, so it is clear that daylight is not lethal to him. IN keeping with the novel, the Lugosi film never says anything to indicate that daylight would make the vampire go up on a poof of smoke. The same was true of the first sequel DRACULA'S DAUGHTER in 1936.
Only later, in the 1940s, did Universal Pictures climb on board the bandwagon that NOSFERATU started, when they had the SON OF DRACULA dissolve into a skeleton from the first rays of the sun -- a death they repeated for Dracula himself in HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HOUSE OF DRACULA.