What a classic movie! Dracula! A movie about a man named, Renfield, who is traveling to the Count Dracula castle in Transylvania, and even after all the warning heed from the local villagers not to enter the castle in fear of vampire living there, Renfield still demands to go and refuses to stay the village inn, now we can compare this to the critical lens, Marxism, which is compared to the ignorance of people referred to as the common laborers, who are just clueless about the economic and political structures that go on in their capitalism society, as this can be compared to Renfield who not only ignore the warning to not enter the castle but acts upon to enter it in order to refuse staying at the village inn as this can be compared the first idea of Marxism, where the more ignorant people are, the more money that the higher above these living labors make as they are not aware about the society around then, and work for labors for days without ever knowing the truth about this capitalism society.  

Moving farther into the movie, Renfield is easily manipulated and slowly hypnotized by Dracula, as Renfield has slowly become a raving crazy “laborer” to Dracula. This can be easily compared to Marxism theory, as capitalism is this vampire just like Dracula who preys on the living labor and drinks their blood, as the more it drinks, the more it wants, thus living forever as whatever there is, along it can work, then it shall be taken away from the vampire, as it is like a big capitalist who grows in money and power as along it can control its laborer forever to gain more power, relating to this idea of enslavement of their laborer. Dracula had done that by trapping Renfield, where now Dracula can feed on Renfield’s blood, compels him to do whatever he wants, and renounces his own soul to Dracula. As, Dracula cannot live and only live by exploiting other people and trying to grow in power by ruining other people lives in the process.

As the moves delve deeper, Renfield is seen as visibly insane, as he only speaks of vampires and many different bugs. As it turns out, his blood became one with Dracula, which made him obsessed with vampires, as he may be turning into one himself. This relates back to the idea of Marxism, as the idea is related to this idea of socialism, as there needs to be a unity of the laborers together in order to offer up the labor needed. As some will make it out in order to be the consumers, a bloodsucker who is powerful enough to control the laborers but never powerful enough to stand on top, Dracula, the highest laborer, is benefiting from the consumers, who are then benefiting from the laborers. Now, with this idea of obsessions, the living laborer being obsessed with working and not questioning anything makes them obedient, which then creates this unity between the laborers that allows them to produce the labor that is needed to keep fueling this capitalist society, which directly relates to Dracula, as the vampire was able to live this long in order to maintain the powers that can rule over society.

Why horror? Why is it even so popular? Why did it live on for many years, just like Dracula? Get it? Haha, funny. Sorry. Okay. Does our own culture affect the way we see horror genres? Does all the ghost tales and the horror tales have anything to do with horror? Is being scared of or having something to fear really part of entertainment? Horror is this idea of scary things, as there is a need to feel scared as it is part of our emotions after all. I mean, how would it feel to watch a movie that always had a happy ending? It would get pretty boring after a while. But, with this introduction of a horror movie, it brought a new topic, as a movie that is made to scare people is very intriguing, as it brings in this curious idea of how I am going to get scared from this movie this time. I believe that the horror movie has lived on for many years because of the new ideas that have spanned the years, as new horror characters are made and new ideas are coming along throughout the years, as people are just interested in watching a horror movie for the thrills. After all, all these legendary stories of ghosts and supernatural items originated from horror movies. I think culture does affect the way we can see horror, as different cultures have their own horror stories to tell. After all, horror is displayed in many different ways, and it is not the same for everyone as seeing an item where another person sees the same item but feels unease as they think it is cursed with an evil spirit while everyone thinks it is a normal object. Scary and scary are all very broad terms, as seeing a vampire might scare some people, and seeing a zombie might not scare the people who were scared of a vampire before, but seeing new things and being scared of them is part of the horror genre, and that is what makes it so entertaining to watch. I don’t really agree about the part of horror as a genre is a Western privilege because the idea of watching a movie belong to all, therefore why would a single genre be locked to Western only? After all, there is a lot of great horror movie from anywhere. And that I believe.