| Count Alucard | |
|---|---|
| Dracula character | |
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| First Episode Appearance | Son of Dracula |
| Created by | Robert and Curt Siodmak |
| Character played by | Lon Chaney Jr. |
| In-universe information | |
| Species | Vampire |
| Gender | Male |
| Family | Count Dracula (father) |
Count Alucard is a fictional character created by American filmmakers Robert and Curt Siodmak for their 1943 horror film Son of Dracula. Like his father Count Dracula, Alucard is a vampire, a mythological creature that lives by sucking the life force from living creatures. Alucard was first performed by Lon Chaney Jr. in Son of Dracula and has since been featured in other films, comics, television shows, video games and other forms of media. The name "Alucard" is "Dracula" spelled backwards.
Creation[]
Alucard was created by Universal Studios' Robert Siodmak and his brother Curt for their 1943 film Son of Dracula. They made the name "Alucard" by spelling "Dracula" backward. Son of Dracula is the third film in Universal's Dracula trilogy, preceded by Dracula (1931) and Dracula's Daughter (1936). Like Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Wolf Man, it is an example of a monster movie with no novelization history.
In Son of Dracula[]
Alucard is the first son of Count Dracula, King of the Vampires, and is "Prince of Vampires", later revealed to be Dracula himself. At the beginning of the film, Alucard is a middle-aged man who is invited to the US, where he meets Katherine Caldwell, a woman who secretly dates and marries him. However, when her jealous boyfriend, Frank Stanley, attempts to kill Alucard, the bullets pass through him and hit Katherine. News of the incident reach Professor Lazlo, who suspects that this may be a case of vampirism. Meanwhile, Alucard turns Katherine into a vampire. When confronted, Katherine says that she still loves Frank but wanted immortality, and tells him how to destroy Alucard. Frank sets Alucard's coffin on fire, killing him.
Since Son of Dracula, the character has not appeared in a Universal film.
In other media[]
- Alucard appears in the 1967 film Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors.
- Although Alucard wasn't mentioned by name, he appears as Count Dracula's son in Mad Mad Mad Monsters. Here, however, he is called "Boobula". Count Dracula's son was with his father when Baron Henry von Frankenstein invites them to the wedding of the Monster and his Bride at the Transylvania Astoria Hotel.
- In the Hammer film Dracula A.D. 1972, Dracula’s present day servant uses the surname Alucard.
- Alucard is a central character in some of the Castlevania video games by Konami. His first appearance in the game series was in the 1989 prequel Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse as he teams up with Trevor Belmont to stop Dracula. Alucard also appears in the 1997 game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night as the main playable character. In Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow he appears under the guise of "Genya Arikado", an enigmatic government agent. In the Lords of Shadow saga, he appears as a playable character in Mirror of Fate, where he and Trevor are effectively merged into a single being, and reappears in Lords of Shadow 2 as an ally. Alucard continues to appear in various games under the Castlevania label.
- Alucard is the protagonist in the Hellsing manga and anime series created by Kouta Hirano. He is not the son of Dracula, but rather both Count Dracula of Bram Stoker's novel as well as Vlad III Tepes of Wallachia.
- Alucard is the name of a vampire who began to absorb other monsters to become a nearly-unkillable demon in the manga Rosario + Vampire by Akihisa Ikeda.
- Herschell Gordon Lewis' movie A Taste of Blood is also known as "The Secret of Dr. Alucard", although it does not feature any character named Alucard.
- Alucard is the male protagonist in Master of Mosquiton, an anime predating Hellsing, where he is awoken by the blood of Inaho, making her his master. The OAV set & the TV Series depict his personality very differently.
- In Batman v. Dracula Dracula attends Bruce Wayne's party under the name Alucard which Wayne quickly deduces as being Dracula spelled backwards.
References[]
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | ||
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Original novel | Count Dracula • Abraham Van Helsing • Jonathan Harker • Mina Harker • Lucy Westenra • Arthur Holmwood • Dr. John Seward • Quincey Morris •
Renfield • Brides |
| Other works | Adri Nital • Alucard • Count Alucard • Count Orlok • Count von Count • Dracula (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) • Doctor Sun • Eva • Hamilton Slade • Janus • Postmortem • Turac | |
| Historical | Vlad Călugărul • Vlad the Impaler • Vlad II Dracul | |
| Films | Universal series |
Dracula (1931 English-language) • Drácula (1931 Spanish-language) • Dracula's Daughter (1936) • Son of Dracula (1943) • House of Frankenstein (1944) • House of Dracula (1945) • Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) |
| Hammer series |
Dracula (1958) • The Brides of Dracula (1960) • Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) • Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) • Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) • Scars of Dracula (1970) • Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) • The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) • The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) | |
| Dracula 2000 |
Dracula 2000 (2000) • Dracula II: Ascension (2003) • Dracula III: Legacy (2005) | |
| Parodies | Mad Monster Party? (1967) • Batman Fights Dracula (1967) • Blacula (1972) • Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972) • Blood for Dracula (1974) • Vampira (1974) • Son of Dracula (1974) • Dracula in the Provinces (1975) • Dracula and Son (1976) • Love at First Bite (1979) • The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (1979) • Fracchia contro Dracula (1985) • The Monster Squad (1987) • Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988) • Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) • Monster Mash (1995) • Monster Mash (2000) • Zora the Vampire (2000) • Hotel Transylvania (2012) • Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) | |
| Other | Dracula's Death (1921) • Nosferatu (1922) • The Return of the Vampire (1943) • Drakula İstanbul'da (1953) • Blood of Dracula (1957) • The Return of Dracula (1958) • Batman Dracula (1964) • Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966) • Dracula (1968) • Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969) • Count Dracula (1970) • Los Monstruos del Terror (1970) • Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) • Vampyros Lesbos (1971) • Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) • Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973) • Count Dracula's Great Love (1974) • Count Dracula (1977) • Dracula's Dog (1978) • Doctor Dracula (1978) • Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) • Dracula (1979) • Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979) • Dracula's Widow (1988) • To Die For (1989) • Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989) • Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) • Nadja (1994) • Shadow of the Vampire (2000) • Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) • Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) • Dracula (2002) •
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) • Van Helsing (2004) • Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004) • Dracula 3000 (2004) • The Vulture's Eye (2004) • Blade: Trinity (2004) • The Batman vs. Dracula (2005) • Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse (2006) • Dracula (2006) • Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (2008) • The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008) • House of the Wolf Man (2009) • Young Dracula (2011) • Dracula Reborn (2012) • Dracula 3D (2012) • Saint Dracula 3D (2012) • Dracula 2012 (2013) • Dracula: The Dark Prince (2013) • Dracula Untold (2014) | |
| Television | Series | Draculas ring (1978) • Cliffhangers (1979) • Drak Pack (1980) • Count Duckula (1988–1993) • Dracula: The Series (1990–1991) • Little Dracula (1991–1999) • Ace Kilroy (2011–2012) • Young Dracula (2006–2014) (characters • episodes) • Dracula (2013–2014) • Penny Dreadful (2014–2016) |
| Episodes | "Treehouse of Horror IV" (1993) • "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (2010) • "Buffy vs. Dracula" (2000) • "The Crypt of Dracula" ((smaller|2017}} | |
| Other novels |
The Dracula Tape and sequels (1975–2002) • Anno Dracula series (1992–present) (Anno Dracula • The Bloody Red Baron • Dracula Cha Cha Cha) • Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914) • The Revenge of Dracula (1978) • Little Dracula (1986) • Dracula the Undead (1997) • The Historian (2005) • The Book of Renfield (2005) • Bloodline (2005) • Young Dracula and Young Monsters (2006) • Fangland (2007) • Dracula the Un-dead (2009) | |
| Plays | Dracula (1924) • Dracula (1995) • Dracula (1996) | |
| Musicals | Dracula (Czech musical) (1995) • Dracula: A Chamber Musical (1997) • Dracula, the Musical (2004) • Dracula – Entre l'amour et la mort (2006) • Dracula: the Musical (2010) • Dracula – L'amour plus fort que la mort (2011) | |
| Comics | The Tomb of Dracula • Dracula (Marvel Comics) • Dracula (Dell Comics) • Dracula Lives • Hellsing • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen • Sword of Dracula • Batman & Dracula: Red Rain • Victorian Undead • Wolves at the Gate • X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula • Purgatori | |
| Video games |
The Count (1981) • Ghost Manor (1983) • Castlevania series (1986–present • Dracula) • Dracula (1986) • Dracula the Undead (1991) • Dracula Hakushaku (1992) • Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993) • Bram Stoker's Dracula (handheld) (1993) • Dracula Unleashed (1993) • Dracula: Resurrection (2000) • Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (2000) • Van Helsing (2004) • Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon (2008) • Dracula: Origin (2008) • Vampire Season Monster Defense (2012) • Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon (2013) • Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy (2013) • The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (2013) • Drac's Night Out (unreleased) | |
| Pinball | Dracula (1979) • Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993) • Monster Bash (1998) | |
| Other games | The Fury of Dracula | |
| Castles | Castle Dracula • Bran Castle • Poenari Castle • Corvin Castle | |
| Albums | Dracula • Dracula 2000 • Iubilaeum Anno Dracula 2001 • Perfect Selection: Dracula Battle • Transylvania • Van Helsing | |
| Songs | "Love Song for a Vampire" | |
| Audio dramas | Legend of the Cybermen | |
| Related topics | Dracula in popular culture • Don Dracula • Transylvanian Society of Dracula • Dracula Society • Dracula tourism • Lugosi v. Universal Pictures • "Dracula/The Rose" | |