Dracula was not a love story. His only motivation was his uncontrollable, bloodlust thirst. Coppola lifted the plot from Karloff's 1932 Mummy.

Dracula's only desire, was to eat and sustain his unnatural "life."

I've had such a warm, fuzzy, secure, familiar sense of belonging whenever I watch the old Universals. Had it all my 72 years. Blame Forest J Ackerman. Blame the Late-Late Show. Blame Morgus the Magnificent, Elvira or Svengoolie but I find it hard to look to those same titles without them being the originals. Not with much energy anyhow..