Vampiric Projections I: The Vampire’s tunneling/teleporting – Dracula (1931)

Dracula USA 1931 Regi Tod Browning Manus Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston Foto Karl Freund Med Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, Edward Van Sloan, David Manners 75 min 35mm Engelsk tale, utekstet Aldersgrense 12 år

The second entry in the vampire teleporting trope is Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931).

At times callously dismissed as an early clumsy talkie, this film was the first to intuit the tunneling of the vampire through a spider’s web. What could at first consideration be brushed off as a result of the limited filming techniques of its time, is in fact an insightful execution of how the vampire would teleport through the web without tearing it, via a dissolve or cut.

Suggested readings:
‘Coexistence of Tenses’ – page 134
&
‘Fascinated Motionlessness and Quantum Tunneling’
pages 20-24 from (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film