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 * Bram Stoker`s Dracula has been the inspiration to countless commercial produts such as movies, TV-shows, music, books, figures and even food. **

**MOVIES** Dracula is probably most known for the movies about him, and since most these movies were cinematic masterpieces, the story about him was spread around the entire world. The first Dracula movie were screened in Germany in 1922, but since the film producers couldn't get the rights for the story, they called the movie "Nosferatu". The next movie, which is cited as the greatest Dracula movie of them all, called "Dracula" were released in 1931. This movie starred Hungarian actor Bela Lugosi, which will forever be rememberd as the "true" face of Dracula. Bela Lugosi was even buried in his Dracula cape when he died in 1956! In 1958, another Dracula movie would get almost as much recognition as "Dracula (1931)". This movie were also called "Dracula", but Count Dracula was this time portrayed by Christopher Lee ("Saruman" in "The Lord Of The Rings" saga), which is ranked as the second best in the role of Dracula (Bela Lugosi is ranked number one). In between "Dracula (1931)" and "Dracula (1958)", there were a bunch of Dracula movie adaptions, but none of these would rank as high as the latter two, but in 1992, the third most well known Dracula movie were released. This movie were also simply called "Dracula", but some of the versions were also called "Bram Stoker`s Dracula" to avoid confusion. This movie focused more on the love part of the novel than the horror part. All these four movies are among the strongest adaption of Dracula and are also among the best horror/romance movies released at those times.

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**MUSIC** Dracula also inspired many music artist, moslty hard rock and metal artists. One of the most known musical adaptions of Dracula, is American power metal band Iced Earth`s version. This version captures the despair and feeling of dread from the book, and also points out that Dracula is both a horror novel, and a love novel. This song was featured on their album "Horror Show" released in 2001.

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**BOOKS** Many authors have cited Bram Stoker`s Dracula as influence in either their style of writing, or in a specific book. Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, is obvious influenced by Dracula because of her mix of vampire fiction and love story. The story itself is about a girl falling in love with a vampire. But as the book progress, she learns that to love this "creature", she has to sacrifice the one thing that she values the most.

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